Oolite Bulletins

Cholmondely wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 8:41 pm

AndyFox wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 8:10 pm

Is there a Russian translation available for version 1.65 (which was released in 2006)?

Are you actually playing v.1.65?

Submitting this version to the Old-Games website because games released as recently as 2006 are not accepted.

AndyFox wrote: ↑Sat Mar 28, 2026 9:33 pm

So, having had a look at your website (I notice the most recent games are from 2010),

the Russifications I linked above are OXPs - not rewrites of the original game. (OXP = Oolite eXpansion Pack, OXZ = Oolite eXpansion pack Zipped - these came in with Oolite v.1.79 in 2014)

As are the other language versions - and a_c, who wrote the Italian OXP is still active on these boards if you have questions. The Italian OXP (which I've tried) does not work on modern Oolite. But I tried it when I played Oolite v.1.77.1 (from 2013), and it transmogrified most of what went on my screen into Italian for me and seemed to work just fine. The requires.plist inside the OXP requires Oolite v.1.73 (from 2009), but there were two earlier versions of the OXP which might have worked on older Oolite versions.

Be aware that as the Oolite versions progressed, they (i) allowed more and more of the vanilla game code to be overwritten by OXPs, and (ii) introduced more javascripting capabilities. A result was that older OXPs needed to be updated to allow for changes.

See (if you have not already done so)  Oolite for a potted history of Oolite's development, some dates of significant versions and links to collections of older OXPs working on these older versions.

The crucial one for your project will be Oosat - http://capnhack.com/hosting/oolite/Oolite/OoSat.html - which still works - thanks to CapnHack!

Oosat2 is sadly kaput (but Winston might still have some details since he hosted it, as might LittleBear since he came galloping to the rescue when it folded).