Oolite Bulletins

If you're determined to be bland, just "Alternative Starts". So, we already have Start Choices (2013) and Start Choices Addenda (2018?). If you did not already know what they do, how would you guess from the name alone? Adder Start (2017), though, is self-explanatory. Start Choices gives ...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sun May 11, 2025 10:19 am

I've also added the link to the OXP release thread at the top of the very first post. Thank you!

Any chance of a wiki page, and of course a link to it in these threads?

EDIT: Hold that.. Just realised it's working without actually hitting the redirect. Hunting for the old config that must be getting hit. Will update when done. Managed to clobber the errant config file and tested it properly. All good. Do I understand you managed to patch the binaries? And all that...

Scenario.plist Savefiles for new game starts I'm stuck. I started my Galactic_start.oxp using a "neutral" save file titled "Jameson - Full game - unhacked". (The strict game Jameson would only load up a strict game). I created another 15 based on this with riveting names such as...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 10:35 pm

Redspear wrote: ↑Tue Apr 15, 2025 8:55 pm

Royal Vetititian (pre communist reference presumably)

Thumbs up to this one! WB will love it too!

Viking Crooses? Sounds crass.
Voorgin Vooyages?
Cloob Med?

Onrira-Xexedi Line?
Tianvean Travels?

Fred Oolsen?

I've just used a hacky little python redirect and learned three things. This all works fine on the Mac version. Putting a slash at the end of the URL in the oolite binary doesn't hurt anything. Redirecting to the https variant of the site works fine. From that, I am going to assume the ideal extra U...

Would a rebuild of the windows variant be backwards compatible? Could the fix be more easily achieved by re-doing the last step (constructing the installer)? Yes, it is totally possible to rebuild the installer corresponding to the exact github revision used to generate the 1.90 release. I'm inferr...

The windoze version is a self-extracting installer, and may prove a tad harder to edit. Might be easier to run a re-build for that, unless anyone here knows how to re-jig such a file? I don't think you can jig an NSIS installer. It uses CRCs for self-verifying its integrity when it runs. Even a one...

Could you use a URL shortening service (like Tiny URL) to shorten it? That way, nothing else needs to be created. Rather than adding yet another dependency I'd involve timer to test whether https://oolite.space/ is feasible. The string oxz-index-url is looked up in the configuration (GnuStepDefault...

If the domain oolite.org expires on the 9th May, I might snap it up to catch, log and redirect to oolite.space. It'd not be expensive. Does anyone know who/why is holding it? The WhoIs info points at a French lady. Redirecting old bb links is something only the exalted one can do. It ought not take ...

Could we create a URL that is the same length. Thoughts/progress. https://addons.oolite.space/api/1.0/overview/ exists.. Can/should/could Oolite use https for the expansion manager? Leaving out the last two chars of the URL works, at least for the Mac version. I say works.. obviously the URL is non...

phkb wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 2:33 pm

Could we create a URL that is the same length (or less than) as the previous one, but which points to the new location? That *might* allow the binaries to be edited.

Cunning! I'll see if editing to same num chars can work after tea.

Bump! Is there really no way to update the URL for the Expansions Manager in the three 1.90 downloads? It is over two years now since Timer created oolite.org How many borked versions of 1.90 have been downloaded in those two years? How many of those downloads ended up getting abandoned because we ...

I'd understood that it was GitHub which made it impossible to simply update the broken url in the Oolite v.1.90 Expansions Manager Not impossible, but far from simple. I suppose it'd be easiest as a one-off, to build at home, then manually re-upload them. I'll have a crack at doing that for at leas...

Fantastic work C.B.

Almost self-documenting. That deserves a wiki page (DIY HUD), surely?