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DaddyHoggy, I’ll make you a deal. You send me one of those, and I’ll prioritize real multi-monitor support. ;-)
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:lol:

You know, if I thought I could, for the benefit of the community as a whole, I would - you'd have to pay P&P though... :wink:
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MOD say no. :D
So you can get 2 screens working with a mac (if you make a really big window that is (not full screen)).

How many screens can you get this working on in linux and windows?
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ClymAngus wrote:
MOD say no. :D
So you can get 2 screens working with a mac (if you make a really big window that is (not full screen)).

How many screens can you get this working on in linux and windows?
It works with a TH2G over 3 screens on a PC but that's because it thinks its one big screen of 3840x1024 (even though Ahruman points out Oolite doesn't support this res!)

All my linux boxes are single screen, so, pass!
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
Friday will be the best day - Being a mostly military site the tradition of POETS still holds strong.
Edible POETS?
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treczoks wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
Friday will be the best day - Being a mostly military site the tradition of POETS still holds strong.
Edible POETS?
I'm assuming the fatherhog is referring to common practice in the UK which is P*** Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday. :wink:

Friday is thus often referred to as 'Poets' Day. :lol:

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drew wrote:
treczoks wrote:
DaddyHoggy wrote:
Friday will be the best day - Being a mostly military site the tradition of POETS still holds strong.
Edible POETS?
I'm assuming the fatherhog is referring to common practice in the UK which is P*** Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday. :wink:

Friday is thus often referred to as 'Poets' Day. :lol:

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DH, you jammy b so-and-so! :D

I wonder if you'll have to disable the fourth monitor though.

Do let us know how it plays in full screen! ;)
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And there was, in the office after 6pm on a Friday, in a building next door to MoD headquarters on Whitehall pondering "what do they get up to in there at this time." Now I know.

*jealous*

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And there was, in the office after 6pm on a Friday, in a building next door to MoD headquarters on Whitehall pondering "what do they get up to in there at this time." Now I know.

*jealous*

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What they get up to in Main Building is very scary (in parts) I'm glad I'm not there any more!
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
What they get up to in Main Building is very scary (in parts) I'm glad I'm not there any more!
I just knows a bit about Defense Medical Services and is so far as I can tell, they don't do anything scary.
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Having spoken to my boss tonight I have discovered two things about my mega-gaming sim for Oolite:

1) The sim will actually belong to the military not the University :¬( - this will make it trickier to access - although the military has no in-house expertise to set it up or run it - so it should fall to us...

2) It's actually going to come supplied with four separate PCs each powering a different screen - it was originally a clustering demonstrator - So I would have to hope that I could run four instances of the same game of Oolite and leave each one in a separate view...

I know the answer to this is "no" - but I just wanted to mention it anyway!

Oh Well - we shall have to see how it pans out!
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DaddyHoggy wrote:
I know the answer to this is "no" - but I just wanted to mention it anyway!
It’s not only “no”, it’s also “yeah, right” and “what are you smoking, man?” :-)
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"Obviously, photographic proof will follow as soon as I have it."

did you never gt a chance to play w/ this, DH?
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Killer Wolf wrote:
"Obviously, photographic proof will follow as soon as I have it."

did you never gt a chance to play w/ this, DH?
If you go to the waiting for things to go quite thread - you see that the answer is yes, but not on the really big screens - I managed to get Oolite to run a 2x2 mosaic of 1280x1024 (2560x2048 effective) monitors and it worked very nicely, but such a shame that pneumonia got in the way of some proper play time. :(
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