Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:59 pm
Hope your 'old eyes' can wait till 1.73 comes out of the box :-)El Viejo wrote:My problem with 1.72.2 is the precision roll/pitch toggle.
With my old eyes, I need it!
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Posted: 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>
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>
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:17 pm
Can I just ask, in the politest of terms, what the heck are you talking about?!??!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>
Posted: 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!
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!
Posted: 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.
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.
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 11:10 pm
DH
Diziet is right on. Start with "Consider Phlebus"
Diziet is right on. Start with "Consider Phlebus"
Posted: 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.
"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.
Posted: 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
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
Posted: 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.
Posted: 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.
Way ahead of its time.
Posted: 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!))