Oolite Bulletins

--help seems to work fine with appimage $ ./Oolite_test_1.92.1.7800-260303-6443c4c-x86_64.AppImage --help 2>/dev/null | sed -n 's/^Version //p' 1.92.1.7800-260303-6443c4c Yep, that works. So it is at least not necessary to extract the image for version information. Now I need a better way to test f...

--help seems to work fine with appimage

On my Slackware 15.0, under X server (and NVidia driver 570.172.08), I did some FPS testing, using my own 1.93 build. This is on a NVidia GeForce GTX 970, 3 displays, 2 of them at 60 Hz, one at 144 Hz. My regular 1600x900 window run on the "main" display @60 Hz (although the driver doesn'...

[...] Oh...err... At 3840x2160 resolution, I get an FPS of <10, with a vanilla Oolite installation.[...] Besides the other suggestions/comments, nowadays I'd guess there is also the question of what underlying server you're running under? Is it X Window System, or Wayland? AnduinOS uses Wayland by ...

Don't often post here, but I just installed Ooltie from the FlatHub on a brand new install of AnduinOS, and I've hit a snag. I can't get Oolite to play iusing the full graphical width of my screen. It plays in full screen mode, but when I go to the options, it says the Full Screen Mode is 1024x768,...

phkb wrote: ↑Sat Jan 31, 2026 3:10 am

Here's a version I did for Windows:

Nice! Did you notice the next script on my post, which unzips, fixes, and re-zips all the OXZs in a directory?

Would it be possible/practical to have an option to compress the save files?

Mine are mostly 2M+. I'm in the habit of saving as new files regularly, especially when troubleshooting.

zstd squishes them to ~10%

Tsoj... I can't see any of these. All I can see is "Content is not viewable in your region". Imgur simply blocked the UK rather than attempt to comply with the Online Safety Act. As of Sep 30th 2025, any embedded imgur piccies will not be visible in the UK, including all those already in ...

I think we should keep in mind that while we want to make things as easy as possible for existing users to keep existing folder layouts, with multiple build types like MSIX, NSIS, flatpak, appimage, source and with new players who may existing layouts confusing or inconvenient, we probably need to ...

At the moment the appimage just runs the oolte executable directly. It could be changed to do something else internally like run a script that launches oolite. To avoid confusion I'll mention here that an AppImage has its own internal filesystem which uses squashfs. You can see the folder structure...

Please see if this appimage works with symlinks if you have time: https://github.com/mcarans/oolite/actions/runs/20450167242/artifacts/4949452794. It uses ARGV0. I'm investigating various appimage related tools that might cover some of the suggestions you've made. That works, as long as the symlink...

"ARGV0 provides information how the AppImage was called. When you call an AppImage through a symlink for instance, you can get the path to this symlink through ARGV0, while APPIMAGE would contain the absolute path to the file behind that symlink." That sounds like it could solve the probl...

I didn't have an AddOns folder in ~Downloads. I understand that it looks for one in the appimage's $pwd. It does not look in what was the legacy executable's normal $pwd, which in effect is a legacy location for a lot of users who formerly used the self-installer to $HOME. Does it work if you put t...

So that all makes sense. I tried: cd ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite ln -s ~/Downloads/Oolite_test_1.91.0.7728-25~19-7857806-x86_64.AppImage oolite-appimage Running ./oolite-appimage finds the old unmanaged OXP's, because $pwd is ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite However, executed from another directory ...

So that all makes sense. I tried: cd ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite ln -s ~/Downloads/Oolite_test_1.91.0.7728-25~19-7857806-x86_64.AppImage oolite-appimage Running ./oolite-appimage finds the old unmanaged OXP's, because $pwd is ~/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite However, executed from another directory (...