Oolite Bulletins

Hi Nemesis The Warlock,
and welcome to the friendliest board this side of Riedquat.
Yes, it's a pretty amazing game, and a great community as well. If you have any questions or problems don't be frightened to ask. Come back soon.

Smivs wrote:

Hi Nemesis The Warlock,
and welcome to the friendliest board this side of Riedquat.
Yes, it's a pretty amazing game, and a great community as well. If you have any questions or problems don't be frightened to ask. Come back soon.

Thanks Smivs, will do and I have

Do I detect a certain 2000AD-ness about you?

Smivs wrote:

Do I detect a certain 2000AD-ness about you?

Indeed Smivs, indeed

Nemesis The Warlock wrote:

Smivs wrote:

Do I detect a certain 2000AD-ness about you?

Indeed Smivs, indeed

I had your namesake as a game on my C64 many years ago - a side-on platform, hack-and-slash, I recall when you died, your heart was squished into oblivion by a might fist...

DaddyHoggy wrote:

I had your namesake as a game on my C64 many years ago - a side-on platform, hack-and-slash, I recall when you died, your heart was squished into oblivion by a might fist...

One of the first computer games where killed enemies left their corpses lying around, if I remember right ... did you not have to pile them up to reach the exits?

Nemesis The Warlock wrote:

Smivs wrote:

Do I detect a certain 2000AD-ness about you?

Indeed Smivs, indeed

Well, in that case, Borag Thung!

Zarjaz! And Borag Thung to you too Smivs
Nice to meet another Squaxx dek Thargo and thanks for the warm welcome.

Disembodied wrote:

DaddyHoggy wrote:

I had your namesake as a game on my C64 many years ago - a side-on platform, hack-and-slash, I recall when you died, your heart was squished into oblivion by a might fist...

One of the first computer games where killed enemies left their corpses lying around, if I remember right ... did you not have to pile them up to reach the exits?

Well remembered - that's exactly the case!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUSPEFX-3h4

I thought it looked better than this!!! (Ah, memory, such a selectively tinted window through which we view the past)

DaddyHoggy wrote:

Well remembered - that's exactly the case!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUSPEFX-3h4

I thought it looked better than this!!! (Ah, memory, such a selectively tinted window through which we view the past)

But the music is still great, one of the best SID tunes ever.

DaddyHoggy wrote:

I thought it looked better than this!!! (Ah, memory, such a selectively tinted window through which we view the past)

Maybe you remember the C128 version. Now those were great graphics

Taking this game to a 1.76 stable release will be a huge achievement. I may not come to the forums too often any more but I still love this game, and can vividly remember downloading and playing Oolite for the first time. Here was a great space game that ran on my low-powered linux machine! It has now become one my benchmark games that other space games are measured against...

... and since I was only introduced to Oolite some time in the 1.70+ releases - you, Ahruman, are the lead coder responsible for what I found. Building on what Giles left has been clearly been productive, and hopefully another lead programmer may step forward to assist development, even if temporarily.

Looking forward to 1.76. Well done!

So now 1.76 is released. Congratulations to those who made it possible! And to those who will enjoy it .

And a full 31 beam salute for the Supreme Grand Admiral, who is probably now loading up his Fer de Lance to retire to an unknown planet with a pleasant climate and attentive natives.

Best wishes,
Oscar

Oh, and Merry Xmas!

I keep reading this as "a change of pants" and thinking it's a New Year's day thread started by the Oolite programmers

Griff wrote:

I keep reading this as "a change of pants" and thinking it's a New Year's day thread started by the Oolite programmers

So their 'New Years Resolution' is to get a fresh pair of pants