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I am now running this version of the distro on my main laptop, and can confirm that an Oolite 1.76.1 package is included and working. I suppose this means the same will be true of Ubuntu 12.10, if it is not already there in 12.04.

Feel free to add status for other distros.

Switeck wrote:

the (now-gone) Energy Bomb

heh, forgotten maybe, but not gone

Tried it, and Oolite downloads and installs to the Pi just fine. However when you try to run it, nothing happens. Looking at the latest log reveals that Oolite has failed to start owing to OpenGL errors (as expected). Heh, on my emulator it fails before it gets that far - I haven't set up sound yet.

Well 1.76.1 is in Debian Wheezy (currently frozen). I am running on QEMU ATM while I wait for my PI to arrive. Rest assured, it will be one of the first things I try

Ah, OK, does that mean that all game threads are suspended during (every) JS (function?) execution?

OK, thanks for the clarification guys. I understand the bit about scripts themselves running in a single-threaded environment, but what if, say, you attempt to award some equipment to a ship in flight, and it gets destroyed after the canAwardEquipment() call and before the awardEquipment() call? Yes...

I too am guilty of not checking if the equipment can be awarded first. Well, I am disputing your guilt ;) AIUI the API supports two ways of awarding equipment; "check-then-act" (canAwardEquipment followed by awardEquipment, with or without checking return) and "do it but handle poten...

Well, I did look back when I was writing my OXPs, and decided that awardEquipment() was a simpler way of doing it as it gives a return code for success/failure. No need to check first then do it anyway.

[Sort of OT] Or, since the OO bit is effectively invisible to the end user, you could pronounce it Ai-leet, for the AI, and it would sound like a pronunciation of Elite

Just to be a tad pedantic: From a distance black holes do not pull anything in any more than a star or planet of the same mass would. The event horizon is at one Schwarzchild radius from the centre and is dependent on the mass. Due to the distortion of space, within 3 Schwarzchild radii no orbit is...

mmm, Aristotelian Black Holes!

El Viejo wrote:

CaptSolo's  Copperhead is a nice compact ship (and it has some canon behind it).

Agreed, Solo's ships generally have a really nice Elitey "feel" IMO.

:idea: I see that both the first and the third version have been downloaded. Maybe you have them both installed at the same time? That would explain both the dazzling (two flashers on top of each other), and the non-flashing (the permanent flashers from v.0.9 are at the same places as the flashing ...

No sense reinventing the (dark) wheel I dunno. For me (at least in programming) I've learned better not by copying stuff but writing it myself, because it forces me to understand. If you are "good enough" at studying APIs and putting all the disparate pieces together from scratch then tha...

erm, maybe because it had no yaw control? Seriously, pitch & roll was pretty revolutionary at the time, as I recall, most space games felt like you were on rails. Pitch + roll = freedom!!!!