Oolite Bulletins

Just had the same issue, but with a passenger due to disembark rather than a contract delivery.

v1.62 OSX

Oolite v1.62 / Mac OSX 10.3.9 15" CRT monitor. VERY MINOR thing. Just started using a Python, upgrade from Cobra Mk3. The text next to the energy banks display (E1-E7?) is too small to read. Given that larger monitors are more common now, and there is in any case a visual bar display this is a ...

My "design-in-mind" is to have a one-shot (expensive) missile you can fire that attaches itself to such an abandoned ship, extrudes an antenna, and then overrides the ship's autopilot to head at best speed to dock with the system space station. Given that an abandoned ship is likely to ha...

I came across a stationary, apparantly dead, Python ship. It showed white on the radar and the targetting computer didn't give any criminal status. I tried to dock with it using shift C, but got a 'target is not capable of AP docking' message. Frustrating to leave a 200,000cr ship behind. What shoul...

Star Gazer wrote:

Try 'USB Overdrive X' - highly recommended!

Thanks, will do .

Ahruman wrote:

Any USB joystick ought to work with Mac OS X.

Thanks, good news.

Ahruman wrote:

However, Oolite does not have native joystick support in OS X.

Would I be able to map joystick > keys with the "Oolite key mapper" ?

Oolite 1.62 iMac 350 / 512MB RAM / Mac OS 10.3.9 Other apps running; Launchbar 3.3, Time Out 1.4.1 Oolite in full screen mode.Under attack by number of pirates, locked weapons system on Cobra MkIII, firing laser, Oolite locks up. Was able to force quit. Console log pasted below: 2006-06-20 08:29:56....

Just come across Oolite, played Elite on a BBC way back when.

I'm finding combat using keyboard buttons a bit tricky and I'd like to jet a USB joystick controller to help.

Can you suggest a USB joystick for use with Mac OS 10.3.9 ?