Oolite Bulletins

TheTrevor wrote:

I guess I assumed the welly of a couple of Xeons would handle something that used to run on my old BBC model B ! Yes it's a business PC, I thought it if it handles Autocad and stuff, surely that's enough ? I have a Radeon x800 card here, would that improve things ? Sorry, I'm really not up on gaming kit. Steep learning curve, huh ?
And how do I get it to run except via Dos ?

drew wrote:

And welcome to the friendliest board this side of Riedquat!

That's twice now! <Jumps up and down>

Cheers,

Drew.

TheTrevor wrote:

... docking computer. It spends an awful long time jerking Roll back and forth, back & forth.
My keyboard, which is normally responsive, sometimes needs 2, 3, 4 key taps before Oolite responds.

TheTrevor wrote:

Shift-F toggles frame rate display. I currently have 4-5 fps.

TheTrevor wrote:

A new message came in to my Gmail inbox.

SandJ wrote:

At least Oolite doesn't tell you "You have been boarded by pirates" at 4:20 a.m. when you haven't saved for a while - oh, that used to make me SO cross!!!

Commander McLane wrote:

SandJ wrote:

At least Oolite doesn't tell you "You have been boarded by pirates" at 4:20 a.m. when you haven't saved for a while - oh, that used to make me SO cross!!!

I didn't know that Speccy Elite did that. That's certainly something we have to port into Oolite as well!

3.10) Spectrum Elite
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Sometimes on docking, a message was produced: "Pirates have taken over your ship - Game Over"

I doubt this did much for playability.

Star Gazer wrote:

No, no, no, no no... ...please don't!

...I had almost forgotten that nasty little trick on the Speccy with the random pirates boarding. And yes, it would seem to always happen after many hours of play with a save. On one occasion I freaked my upstairs neighbours by screaming in rage in the middle of the night when it pulled that little stunt on me!

Commander McLane wrote:

Okay, there you are.

1) Put the following few lines in a file named script.js inside your AddOns folder, in order to bring back the old Speccy days.

2) Have fun!

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"use strict";

this.name           = "Speccy_ending";
this.description    = "Pirates are taking over your ship";
this.author         = "Commander McLane";
this.copyright      = "© 2011 Commander McLane";
this.license        = "CC-by-nc-sa 3.0";
this.version        = "1.0";


this.startUp = function()
{
    if(!missionVariables.docking_without_saving) missionVariables.docking_without_saving = 0;
}

this.shipWillDockWithStation = function(station)
{
    if(station.isMainStation) missionVariables.docking_without_saving ++;
}

this.playerWillSaveGame = function()
{
    missionVariables.docking_without_saving = 0;
}

this.missionScreenOpportunity = function()
{
    if(missionVariables.docking_without_saving > 6)
    {
        mission.runScreen
        (
            {
                title: "Pirate alert",
                message: "Pirates have taken over your ship - Game over"
            },
            function()
            {
                player.ship.launch();
                player.ship.explode();
            }
        );
    }
}

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Genius - could I suggest the saves quota has a random element - say 3+(a random number between 3 and 7) - so you could go as many as 10 docks without saving - just to add that additional element of risk...

"use strict";

this.name           = "Speccy_ending";
this.description    = "Pirates are taking over your ship";
this.author         = "Commander McLane";
this.copyright      = "© 2011 Commander McLane";
this.license        = "CC-by-nc-sa 3.0";
this.version        = "1.1";


this.startUp = function()
{
    if(!missionVariables.docking_without_saving) missionVariables.docking_without_saving = Math.floor(6 + Math.random() * 5);
}

this.shipWillDockWithStation = function(station)
{
    if(station.isMainStation) missionVariables.docking_without_saving --;
}

this.playerWillSaveGame = function()
{
    missionVariables.docking_without_saving = Math.floor(6 + Math.random() * 5);
}

this.missionScreenOpportunity = function()
{
    if(missionVariables.docking_without_saving < 1)
    {
        mission.runScreen
        (
            {
                title: "Pirate alert",
                message: "Pirates have taken over your ship - Game over"
            },
            function()
            {
                player.ship.launch();
                player.ship.explode();
            }
        );
    }
}

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Have you looked here: http://www.nvidia.co.uk/object/quadro-w ... er-uk.html