Generation ships

HueijRevisited · Post by **HueijRevisited** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 10:48 pm

Does anyone know where to find the Generation Ships OXP? The Wiki turns up an upload page

I've seen some pictures on this board and I would like to see one in "real life".

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 7:14 am

Captain Hesperus has it. He provided a download link in another thread with the same question.

And unfortunately it can't be uploaded to the wiki, as there is an upload limit of some 2MB, and genship.oxp is bigger than that. (Well, what do you expect? Generation Ships are bigger than that!

In fact they're bigger than anything!

)

Hoopy · Post by **Hoopy** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:33 am

the link in that thread doesn't work anymore - I guess box.net remove things that aren't downloaded often enough?

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:31 am

Benevolent as I am, I have readded this to Box.net and made sure that it is exempt from any future pogroms. And I'm not even charging......

Get your Generation ships here

~~P.S. As per the thread posted above, I still haven't added the lost text file.~~ Text file added, again my apologies to Draco_Caeles

Captain Hesperus

Hoopy · Post by **Hoopy** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:55 am

woo-hoo!
I'm almost grateful enough to buy a nice trumble...

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 10:58 am

Methinks there never was a text file. At least my download from Oosat 2 (revision 1) had none. It was just the OXP, not contained in a folder with any text file. There was, of course, the description in the node of Oosat 2, and this may be lost and gone forever...

BTW: The author is Draco_Caeles and has recently returned to the boards. Maybe you can persuade him to do a readme?

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:03 am

Commander McLane wrote:
BTW: The author is Draco_Caeles and has recently returned to the boards. Maybe you can persuade him to do a readme?

We could always ask The Cap'n to pay him a visit!

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:10 am

I just had an idea (yes, happens sometimes), and payed the waybackmachine a visit. Et voilà: there it is.

At least the teaser on Oosat's main page. (The link to the node is not archived, unfortunately, and leads to the current node with that number, not to the Generation Ships.) But it is at least more than nothing. Here it comes:

Draco_Caeles wrote:
Shadows from the Past

Space holds many mysteries: all spacers learn this, some sooner, some later. Ships take off from a station and are lost without a trace; some are wormholed across the galaxy, or even between galaxies, leaving the pilot stranded; some pass through witchspace in seconds and have aged a thousand years, the ship's crew aged to dust on the consoles.

And then there are the legends...

@C_H: With this--and the information that Draco_Caeles is the author of the OXP--you could create a small readme and add it to the download site. And linking the whole thing to the OXP page would be nice, too, of course.

TGHC · Post by **TGHC** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 11:22 am

Well done Sherlock McLane!

And what a great site that is, never heard of it before (nursie is very careful about the internet sites I go too

)

Hoopy · Post by **Hoopy** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:46 pm

d'oh! I should have thought of that - we were discussing it at work earlier in the week!

Captain Hesperus · Post by **Captain Hesperus** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:40 pm

Sorted.

Captain Hesperus

nijineko · Post by **nijineko** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:02 pm

ooooooh. nice. and much thanks. i look forward to spotting my first one. =D

HueijRevisited · Post by **HueijRevisited** » Thu Nov 15, 2007 9:48 pm

Oh man! Thanks all for sorting this out

Glad to see I am not the only one that wants this OXP.

Commander McLane · Post by **Commander McLane** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 6:45 am

Captain Hesperus wrote:
Sorted.

Captain Hesperus

Almost.

I added the link to the ship-oxp list at the bottom of the page as well.

nijineko · Post by **nijineko** » Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:15 am

oooh, managed to get some nice screen shots. =D now, those are big.