Oolite Bulletins

Thanks to input from mcarans I've further tweaked Linux-deps. New version here. Syncronised with upstream and re-did the actions script to not build windows version and use distro package of doxygen to save a job. Pulled in additions to oolite-binary-resources. New changes to static libraries includ...

After a long hiatus (my last post here was in 2011!) , I am back so I guess this is reintroducing myself. Mike - played Elite on C64 all the way through Frontier and FFE on PC and some similar games like Freelancer. I want to try Oolite again after such a long time to see what's changed, but unfort...

phkb wrote: ↑Wed Jun 25, 2025 1:47 am

We are live! All binaries for 1.90 should now work out of the box when downloading OXP's. I've tested the download links from the oolite.space website and everything appears to have linked up successfully!

Phew!

Knuckles returning to normal colour... and relax!

Nice one phkb!

It might be worth trying Linux on that computer. A brief search hints that the 3000 is still well supported. I recommend LinuxMint 22.1 XFCE as it has a lean interface, and all the tools you'll need to get started. You can use a USB stick to try it without needing to install. If you have enough RAM ...

To keep things simple, let's use just some platform we know to work and still is available. That is Ubuntu 22. Setup the AppImage there. If that works, we can still add complexity with dockerized older versions. I've just done a PR of my fixes to the Linux-deps. This might help us along toward AppI...

Do mobile devices need excluding? Surely a mobile device/tablet with e.g. a Bluetooth keyboard would be fine. The examples in the flathub docs add touch support for all mobile/tablet apps. Mobile flatpak can still install "desktop" apps, they just are not in the mobile section of flathub ...

I haven't merged it because I have no say on the Linux builds nor way to confirm the functionality of the PR #515 is just metadata for gui software apps, the actual build artifact is in #516. Does the 'requires' section need 'display length', and if so, should the (presumably minimum) be as high as...

#515 looks mostly good to me.

Does the 'requires' section need 'display length', and if so, should the (presumably minimum) be as high as 768.

Then let's skip flatpak for the moment. I see no harm in continuing Flatpak development. If the Flatpak build process can be coerced into tweaking the URL in 1.90, or the source can be fixed as 1.90.1, is there any reason not to put the 'stable' release on Flathub? My hope being that it might broad...

I take it that the download links would all point towards the Github releases page. Or do they point to the download archives directly? I think a lot of the links out there are platform agnostic pointers to the 1.90 release page on github rather than individual files. Retaining the filenames/paths ...

Not sure I am getting this right. The source code on Github already contains an updated URL for downloading expansions. You can see it here . As Oolite builds on free Github services there are limitations in the build environment. However it is possible to add runners with custom operating systems ...

I've modded the Linux versions. These downloads will self-destruct in 15 days. 32 bit: oolite-1.90.linux-x86.tgz (103.77 MB) oolite-1.90-test.linux-x86.tgz (103.99 MB) 64 bit: oolite-1.90.linux-x86_64.tgz (104.2 MB) oolite-1.90-test.linux-x86_64.tgz (104.43 MB) To do this, I chopped the self-extract...

I'd simply dug into the zip using mc's VFS rather than extract and repack. Didn't think about zip version issues. Well caught phkb!!

I'll crack on with the Linux versions next. If I can just whip the libraries into good order as I did on my fork of 1.91.

More fixed versions for sanity check and re-injection: Here's a tweaked oolite-1.90.tar.gz (13.31 MB) and oolite-source-1.90.tar.bz2 (149.09 MB) Which both look like source code, though the latter has a bunch of png files in Resources/Binary/Textures, and likely other diffs. Anyone know what's going...

I've done the easy bit and patched the MacOS zips. If someone can sanity check it please, I'll crack on with the library hell of the Linux versions. The test version (oolite-1.90-Mac-TestRelease.zip (102.06 MB) ) and The plain version (oolite-1.90.zip (101.75 MB) ) will self destruct in 15 days. If ...