Oolite Bulletins

Not sure if this might have been mentioned before - but hey, it's got Elite pre-installed.

Cool click&play, but do not press the Home button.

I heard about this recently - the link is the 'live' version that runs right in the browser.

Edit: looks like Norby beat me to it .

I wish we had had these things in the US. They seemed like such cool early home computers .

Don't know about it not being famous for being fast, but we bench tested one against a (Zenith) 286 based XT and in interpreted BASIC (the only language available to both - BBC had C and Pascal iirc) the Beeb was 4-10 quicker on our tests, and if we added the 'run from boot' option then the Beeb had booted and completed the test before the XT had got as far as running the autoexec.bat.

I can't work out how to launch from the station on the emulated Elite. There's no F0 key, and numpad-0 didn't work either!

Press F10 then F1 (I do not know why). I am missing a key which slow the ship but successfully docked at Zaonce.

This may help:

Thanks! F10 to launch worked, though I think I had to hold the key for a bit. Now, if I can just remember how to fly this thing . .

Cody wrote:

This may help:

Excellent - thanks Cody .