Oolite v1.65 save file -now solved!

Svengali · Post by **Svengali** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:59 pm

El Viejo wrote:
My problem with 1.72.2 is the precision roll/pitch toggle.
With my old eyes, I need it!

Hope your 'old eyes' can wait till 1.73 comes out of the box :-)

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:07 pm

Or you could try compiling trunk.. then you can have 1.73 now

Have told Skaffen-Amtiskaw that pirates with an IFF ID of "Clear Air Turbulence" are off-limits... but if you fire on the "Gunboat Diplomat" all bets are off... <evil grin>

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:17 pm

Diziet Sma wrote:
Or you could try compiling trunk.. then you can have 1.73 now

Have told Skaffen-Amtiskaw that pirates with an IFF ID of "Clear Air Turbulence" are off-limits... but if you fire on the "Gunboat Diplomat" all bets are off... <evil grin>

Can I just ask, in the politest of terms, what the heck are you talking about?!??!

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:04 pm

Diziet.
Me, compile trunk! Ha! I haven't compiled anything since I used to code COBOL, and that was eons ago, on an Apricot Xen. As an aside, COBOL was 50 years old a couple of weeks ago and it's still running BIG mainframes today. Robust code.

I've gone on to v1.72.2 now: no stars, no nebulae, no precision. But what a game! I'll do milk runs for a while and wait on v1.73.

Me and Skaffen-Amtiskaw can co-exist under the rules of MAD. Deal?

DaddyHoggy.
In the politest of terms, as you so nicely put it, you need to get Culture!

Diziet Sma · Post by **Diziet Sma** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:06 pm

DH, do you mean to say you've missed out on what may well be the greatest space-opera series of modern times?

The "Clear Air Turbulence" and "Gunboat Diplomat" are ships from it, Diziet Sma, Perosteck Balveda and Skaffen-Amtiskaw are characters from it, (well S-A is a drone, an AI combat robot, for lack of a better term, who has enough power to take out Skynet on its own, if it were dumped in the Terminator universe. Not bad for a unit the size of a dinner tray.)

They are to do with a civilisation known as "The Culture", created by Iain M. Banks.

Both Iain's regular fiction and science fiction are excellent reading... a real treat if you've never come across it before.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:10 pm

DH

Diziet is right on. Start with "Consider Phlebus"

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:12 pm

Aaaarrrggghhh! Of course!

"Use of Weapons", "Consider Phelbas" etc.

Yup, it's been a long time but they're gathering dust on my shelves somewhere.

Also read the Banks man in his other form i.e. Crow Road, The Business, etc.

Da man is a genious whatever genre he turns his hand to.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 6:59 pm

I am content: my GPU just woke up and I have stars, faint nebulae and a couple of OXP's.

Now, what was that someone said about "the greatest space-opera series of modern times" - there's a thread! I'll throw in the Foundation series. Or is that olden times?

El Viejo

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:28 pm

I started reading EE Doc Smith "Lensman" Series when I was nine - for me there can be no other true "Space Opera" than that.

Website · Post by **Cody** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:40 pm

Lensman. That's for sure olden times. Written in the 30's and 40's I think.
Way ahead of its time.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:04 pm

I wanted to be Kit Kimball when I grew up (still waiting for this event to occur (fast approaching 40!))