Oolite Bulletins

Well, thank you! It's better than being referred to as a miserable old antisocial git, as my erstwhile girl friend did...!

...only a slipstick. Heh.. I wish I still had the slipsticks from my final year of high school.. I had 3.. a really nice 15 inch high-precision unit, a kinda strange looking but very useful 3-sided 12 inch one, and a 6 inch circular disc that I could tuck into a textbook... Ahhhh...! I was really b...

I'm sure this question comes up every couple of years! And my answer is the same; I started with Elite on my trusty ZX Spectrum 48k, replete with LensLok... ...yyyeessss... but even that couldn't put me off playing day and night until I reached Elite. Thing was, I was already 36 when all that starte...

Wow! Huge thanks to all these selfless souls who pour their efforts into making Oolite look as good as it plays! Be blessed!

Excellent! Some great contributions!

...other than the "Welcome to" bit and the "A forum" bit...

[rant] It's amazing how we take things for granted. I come from the generation that first computed using punch cards and paper tape, working with physically huge machines with very little ability. The idea of being able to start up a computer on my desk, entering and seeing information displayed in...

blarss me... wuts funny uboat DOoracell? Thuss how it said, innit?

@ Frame - That's an interesting looking ship on your photobucket account - it looks remarkably like a nicely modelled version of the IDA Frigate from EVNova ...? Any chance of an Aurora Cruiser?

I suppose that, if it were considered useful/interesting, the list mentioned in the thread quoted could be posted on the Oolite FAQ pages of the Elite Wiki ...?

Yep. Fascinating, the different perspective knowledgeable people have on the word 'simple', as in:

This simple vertex shader just...

Gosh!! I'm glad to say I missed all the nastiness!

Thanks Giles for taking the matter in hand so promptly!

Hhhmmm... ...that must mean you visit here far more often than you let on... ....

I was not saying that EVN was no longer in existence, but remembering a great deal of fun that occurred in being involved in the cooperative writing of a fictional story based on characters abstracted from the EVN storyline. Dan was a particularly enjoyable contributor to that time, and it was with ...

Hey... Hi Dan! Nice to see you back here! I still visit here occasionally and see what's new. I have kept up to date with the game and thoroughly enjoying 1.77 with just a few choice oxps installed - Griff, Famous Planets, BGS and a few others. I did visit the EV Nova site recently, out of nostalgia...