Picked up a virus of some sort - bouncing Alien head

pllonsdale · Post by **pllonsdale** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:17 pm

Hi there,
As an old Electron Elite player, I was very happy to find Oolite yesterday. I seem to have picked up a virus of some sort about half-way through the Galaxy as I started getting a "cooing" floating head which resembles a Gremlin/Orville bouncing around my screen (!)

Any ideas how I can get rid of this annoyance? I have only loaded one OXP (The Long Way Around - Mission) and the time I loaded that did not correlate with the virus bouncing around the screen (although this was after I loaded the OXP, just not immediately after). I have since removed and deleted the OXP from my Mac and the problem remains.

Any help is really appreciated ! Thanks -

Post by **Cmdr James** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:31 pm

Sounds like you have a trumble. If you search around on this forum you will find no end of discussion on the beasties.

ovvldc · Post by **ovvldc** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:32 pm

You are mistaken. This is not a virus. It is a creature. It is called a Trumble. Did you by any chance run into a shady feline offering a cute pet?

Anyway, new players periodically ask this question, so I suggest you look into older threads about how to deal with this. Trumbles are not related to the Long Way mission, BTW.

Right on commander,
Oscar

Post by **Disembodied** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:33 pm

Hi pllonsdale, welcome to the forums! What you have there is a trumble. Quite possibly you bought it as a pet. It's also possible that you didn't know you were buying it – sometimes the mission screen can pop up and if you're not paying attention or just in a hurry to get to the market or wherever you can "agree" to buy the thing without actually being consciously aware of it ...

However, they are susceptible to heat. Get yourself some thermal shielding and take a trip to the corona of the nearest star. You'll need to keep your ship on the edge of overheating until the little bugger eventually perishes. Don't take on any cargo, especially not food, or chances are it'll a) eat it and b) breed!

pllonsdale · Post by **pllonsdale** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:42 pm

Hi chaps, that's great - I must have collected it up from a cargo scoop pick-up as the other options do not fit with my flying so far. I should have known there was something sci-fi related to this (tribble), I think I am going to enjoy wasting the mid-years of my life on this program as I did my youth on the original Elite. Again, thanks again! Enjoy

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:50 pm

Enjoy

It is the motto (or should be) of this forum (and all who play here). Enjoy indeed.

LittleBear · Post by **LittleBear** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:38 pm

As a BBC user, I was suprised when I first saw a trumble. But these were cannon on the C64 and Spectrum versions of Elite, so are included in the core version of Oolite.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 11:43 pm

LittleBear wrote:
As a BBC user, I was suprised when I first saw a trumble. But these were cannon on the C64 and Spectrum versions of Elite, so are included in the core version of Oolite.

Or indeed canon - although I agree, fired from the aforementioned was often a desire before the bbq'ing technique was discovered by accident and shared amongst the school-yard players for those of us with C64s or speccys

Wiki pages · Post by **Thargoid** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 5:30 am

Oh I dunno. After a little while they get so annoying that a cannon would probably be more appropriate

Post by **winston** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:14 pm

Perhaps you had run into this motley crew (snigger) - http://www.alioth.net/Fiction/oolitestory.pdf

pllonsdale · Post by **pllonsdale** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:14 pm

Trumble free, I continue my personal quest. Thank-you for your comments and help

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