Oolite Bulletins

Have you played this game?
http://www.xjehl.com/nasa/shuttle_usa.htm

Wow! There is an Atari ST version!

Shall I drive the 150 km to my parents' place and dig through the basement? Probably not right now.

And nothing for my current computer.

Commander McLane wrote:

Wow! There is an Atari ST version!

Shall I drive the 150 km to my parents' place and dig through the basement? Probably not right now.

And nothing for my current computer.

You can get emulators for the ST. I have used them in the past, although I have still got an STe and also a Falcon upstairs.
The best emulators for Windows are Steem, SainT and PaCifiST. Steem is also being developed for Linux, but I don't think its released yet. I believe there may be Mac emulators for the ST but I don't know anything about them.

AFAIK, the only one thats still supported (and still being developed!) is Steem. Get it from here. I think you will also need a TOS ROM image, get them here.

Commander McLane wrote:

And nothing for my current computer.

Ditto.

But looking at the bottom of the homepage, this would put me off anyway

I've still got the Amiga version of that game. A very hardcore sim for its time.

Smivs wrote:

But looking at the bottom of the homepage, this would put me off anyway

What? Notepad is the only PURE way to write a webpage! None of your "frontpage" or "dreamweaver" auto-generated, padded out, tag-heavy crap, just pure HTML straight from the heart.

Now I use Notepad++ just for the fact that it remembers your location on a line when you move the cursor up and down, but that's it. Any changes I make to code pages are still pure notepad.

Anyway. Relevant comment. I used to have Shuttle on the Amiga. It was quite involved, as I remember - kind of the spiritual ancestor of Orbiter. Still good though.

For those wanting some hardcore(ish) spaceflight sims, you could take a look at Lunar Flight - you get to pilot a lunar module between various moonbases, carrying cargo and doing missions.

It may have been M$, but the best space sim I've played is still Space Simulator - Newtonian mechanics, a couple dozen stars (real) with planetary systems (fictitious) to explore, as well as some deep space objects like nebulae and globular clusters. One could also fly a lunar landing mission, or a space shuttle mission, for keeping it modern, and sported a two excellent sci-fi exploration ships and one cargo ship (although nothing could be transported in it - one of Oolite's big pluses in my book ).

Disembodied wrote:

For those wanting some hardcore(ish) spaceflight sims, you could take a look at Lunar Flight - you get to pilot a lunar module between various moonbases, carrying cargo and doing missions.

I just bought myself a copy of Lunar Flight.

Turns out I would suck as a LEM pilot. Definitely need to watch the tutorial videos.

!m!

I'm sure most of you have checked Orbiter out already but anyways...

http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/

It's pretty good, like Oolite it's all about the addons and how you choose to build your game.

I've done a Moon mission in real time and established a base, that was probably my greatest achievement, it took months.
Everything from ground crews, fuel and supplies, launch windows, keeping all personnel alive (lost a flight crew when I botched a supply run, they're still out there somewhere).

I know of a dude on the Orbiter forums who has done a mars mission in real time, that's like 2 years!

The learning curve is tough for beginners but I'm deeply grateful for the knowledge of orbital mechanics and now appreciate the logistical nightmare that space exploration really is.

I had my own island base where my own private space venture company operates from.
I liked it so much I even made a video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry0GvUjM-pI&feature=slpl

superbatprime wrote:

I'm sure most of you have checked Orbiter out already but anyways...

I hadn't but I'm downloading it now!