Oolite Bulletins

In Mass Effect 1, 2, and 3 we have Khalisah Bint Sinan al-Jilani, the most "inconvenient" journalist (reporter) of them all (there are some more around, yes).

This notify-send: /home/demo/GNUstep/Applications/Oolite-trunk/oolite-deps/lib/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16) would certainly require to run the notify-send this way LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64 notify-send --app-name=Oolite --urgency=criti...

Replacing this sequence (starting at line 66 from what I can tell from your github link above): if [ $? != 0 ] then echo echo "Erk. It looks like Oolite${TRUNK} died with an error. When making an error" echo "report, please copy + paste the log above into the report." echo echo &...

[...] Is that idea instead or on top of my draft? Instead. The current single script will have to suppress the input command (cat or replace it with read) part when the "desktop" parameter is passed, and allow it only when run without. In the same script you'll have to also implement the ...

You can always do with a command line parameter for a single script in the .desktop file, that only sends the notification and bypasses the input request when it's used, and does both when it's not.

[...] Would it not make sense to use notify-send to show a graphical message? [...] Never too late to learn something (first time I hear about this command). I was going to argue that notify-send might be a desktop environment specific command, and I'm not yet 100% it's not, but it covers xfce and ...

From what I can tell, the " cat " command is used as a sort of " pause " command prompt batch file. Instead of advising to press " Ctrl-C to continue ", and use " cat ", we can advise to press " any key to continue " and use (e.g.) read -r -s -N 1 ju...

Although the Mass Effect universe is quite rich with such places (Chora's Den, and Flux in ME1, Afterlife in ME2, and ME3, Purgatory in ME3), I'll go with The Vortex in Mass Effect: Andromeda.

Disembodied wrote: ↑Sat Jul 01, 2023 3:12 pm

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In Stargate: Universe, the Ancient starship refuels by scooping fuel from a star's corona:

https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Light

Big D receives the chalice with an well deserved extra MBP for the main example I was looking for to expose with this request.

another_commander wrote: ↑Wed Jun 28, 2023 6:04 am

[...] Here is an executable that works for me: https://we.tl/t-GQIWWUGoT1
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Hope it works this time.

Yup, this one works, great job!

Confirmed from me as well. Can't believe that this has gone unnoticed for more than ten years! I think I have a fix though. Can you please test this executable? https://we.tl/t-X3SFuWdypr It works perfectly under Powershell and almost perfectly under cmd.exe for me. By perfectly I mean that it work...

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Tue Jun 27, 2023 9:19 am

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Whence this HUD?

Not really a HUD, more of an image behind the default HUD.
DeepSpace HUD was the real thing, except for the "embedded fonts" (somehow agreed with Giles praising Helvetica ). I gave up on trying to "fix" it, and turned to this quick'n'dirty approach.

Another caveat I had to learn about: The working directory seems to matter when you start Oolite. [...] But on Windows, if you run oolite.exe from any other directory than oolite.exe's parent the game will terminate. No log message, no console message and no window will ever acknowledge that the pr...

Running Oolite for Windows under Linux is quite straightforward under Wine. Here, my last own built: https://i.postimg.cc/nVw3y0Py/v1-91-wine-20230605-scaled.jpg One caveat, when choosing to run Wine as a desktop window, trying full screen in Oolite will not do it right (there will be a window the s...

It's not "fuel", per se, but it is motivational power … in Alastair Reynold's Revenger trilogy, ships use solar sails for most of their manoeuvering. #4 (and an MBP for really stretching the "star fueling" in an unexpected way :) -- RockDoctor's almost "slipstream" sta...