Oolite Bulletins

Also, should be hugely slower and should randomly burst into flames.

Good start. Perhaps, given the rough shape and purpose of the ship, it could be 'jar' instead of 'yar'? :wink: Trickier, because I don't have Goodyear's (probably proprietary) font – but never say never! I've found a similar one which, with a bit of tweaking, might do the job: http://img163.imagesh...

Thargoid wrote:

I don't think Win7 (or Vista) use boot.ini any more?

Uh, is that closer to AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS in syntax? I'm asking for a, uh, friend.

I believe the default location for your OXPs is ${HOME}/.Oolite/AddOns/ (check to be sure). Your save games should be under ${HOME}/oolite-saves/ or perhaps ${HOME}/.oolite-saves/ (again, check to be sure). A simple tar -zcvf your_saved_filename_which_should_be_shorter_than_this.tar.gz .Oolite/AddOn...

To use more than about 3GB of RAM on a 32-bit OS requires some 'tricks' - under Linux this means installing a kernel which has PAE support (Physical Address Extensions). I've been running 64-bit Ubuntu Maverick for years now (with "only" 2GB of RAM) as my only desktop machine and there's ...

I can't give much advice on graphics cards, except to stay the hell away from intel. I get good processor-side speed out of this old 1.6gHz Atom, but the integrated GPU is lame. If you have a good GPU (with good 3D support), a 1gHz CPU will be far more than enough to run Oolite. This probably means ...

Disembodied wrote:

the Ides of March fell on the 15.

Well, would you expect the calends instead?

if the OXP name remains the same, the player just has to drop a new version into their AddOns-folder, which will automatically overwrite the previous version. No need to delete anything by hand. Obsolete files don't get deleted, & in the case of scripts this can cause interesting results. Also ...

Ah, the C.W. McCall reference is a nice touch.

Gimi wrote:

Rama

Or an interstellar whaling boat from that Star Track film.

I note that the only links in the article are to (6) techdirt articles and (2) smashwords weblog posts. One would assume that a real journalist would consider it germane to explore why the "pressure from credit card providers" is being instituted. Perhaps by contacting paypal or a credit c...

I move to something (anything!) that can carry more than 50TC as soon as possible, use that to get a decent cargo carrying reputation and make the big bucks hauling 3000g loads of gems to places with unpronounceable names. Later on a boa2 (or an OXP ship like one of the clippers) with cloaking devic...

Just in case, here's my WIP version of update of the FreeBSD port to 1.76: https://redports.org/browser/avg/games/oolite Looks good. I'll try building it later tonight. Also, nice to see a fellow daemon. :) Edit: *mutter mutter* echo "GNUSTEP_WITH_CLANG=yes" >> /etc/make.conf *grumble hum...

Even without shaders, it's pretty awesome.

I'm with the pumkin on that one: voices off. If the magic voice had a touch of [Gilles de la] Tourette syndrome, howe'er . . .