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Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 3:04 pm**

In the truest sense I guess

http://www.x-plane.com/SpaceCombat.html

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:18 pm**

The thruster flames in the screenshots looks very familiar.

Posted: **Wed Jan 28, 2009 5:33 pm**

Hah… don’t think I’ve seen that since before I first played Oolite. It was engaging for about ten minutes, then deadly dull. Just like X-Plane, in fact. :-)

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 8:04 am**

Looks interesting, nice way to discover a thing or two about the mechanics of space flight. But it does not really seem to be a game so I don't think we will have to worry for Oolite just yet

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:42 pm**

Whaddaya mean there's no Trumbles?

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:18 pm**

JohnnyBoy wrote:
Whaddaya mean there's no Trumbles?

No trumbles. Not even fedos. Meh. Who needs a space sim without trumbles or fedos.

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 2:46 pm**

Ahh, the laws of physics. Nothing quite beats the laws of physics for sucking all the fun out of a game ...

(Are you listening, Braben?

)

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:02 pm**

Maegil would probably go nuts for this.

Talking of whom, where the hell is he? I hope he fares well on the boat he calls home.

Captain Hesperus

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:01 pm**

Captain Hesperus wrote:
Maegil ... Talking of whom, where the hell is he? I hope he fares well on the boat he calls home.

Well, last time he wrote something I know off he was really marooned in the caribbean somewhere, with a broken mast or somesuch.

Hasn't written on the boards for some time now. Hope he got/will get out of this one.

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:57 pm**

Lestradae wrote:
Captain Hesperus wrote:
Maegil ... Talking of whom, where the hell is he? I hope he fares well on the boat he calls home.
Well, last time he wrote something I know off he was really marooned in the somewhere, with a broken mast or somesuch.

Hasn't written on the boards for some time now. Hope he got/will get out of this one.

That was about or a little before Hurricane Ike turned a large part of the Caribbeans and Gulf of Mexico into a destruction derby, wasn't it? I hate to think Maegil was in the middle of that mess.

Posted: **Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:48 pm**

Ridiculously boring. Not even worth my time to download it...

Posted: **Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:01 am**

personaly i prefer Orbiter, and its free, and if my rubbish PC can handle it, anyones can, but it has no sound and you have to downlad that seperately, and to get into orbit, you need to do maths calculations!

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

Posted: **Fri Jan 30, 2009 2:56 pm**

0235 wrote:
personaly i prefer Orbiter, and its free, and if my rubbish PC can handle it, anyones can, but it has no sound and you have to downlad that seperately, and to get into orbit, you need to do maths calculations!

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

Waddayamean, 'no Docking Computer'?

Captain Hesperus

Posted: **Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:32 pm**

Maths calculations? Don't you mean math's calculations? Hey, Math, can you pass me those equations? Or are you saying "mass" with a lisp... "mass calculations" That would make far more sense.

Posted: **Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:53 pm**

No, he means "maths" - as in the accepted shortened version of mathematics - the reason the apostrophe is missed out in the normal rule for abbreviation (as in I have = I've, etc.) is math's implies ownership - if he'd written as you suggested i.e. "you need to do math's calculations!" would imply that the calculations were owned by "math" (whomever or whatever "math" is).

When I did my secondment from the UK MOD at CALCE based at the U of MD (College Park) it took me a little while to get used to hearing it called by the singular rather than the plural i.e. "I'm off to math class" or more oddly (for me) simply, "I'm going to math".

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