Pet### [at] nymaliasnetalmost wrote:
>         Good picture except for one thing ... the
> flames from the engine look like a solid glowing
> crystal, not a hot glowing gas.

I know, but after fiddling around with media for a few hours
trying to produce result X, I came up with result R that looked
nice enough to say 'looks good enough for now'...

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On Fri, 07 Dec 2001 19:07:58 -0500, Timothy R. Cook wrote:

>Cobra Mk. III leaving atmosphere of Merlin in the Ross 154 system.
>Lens flare extras are bit distracting, but main flare looks nice.
>Render time 6 hours 57 minutes 28 seconds.  Cobra III mesh
>imported into RAW triangle format by hand from John Mackay's
>VRML model.

I've found the illusive class 4 military drive so I'll be waiting 
the othere side of your hyperjump clod and blow you away:-)

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Steve wrote:
> I've found the illusive class 4 military drive so I'll be waiting
> the othere side of your hyperjump clod and blow you away:-)

So you have a c4 military drive...big deal!  I've got a Large Plasma
Accelerator and 50 shield generators (don't ask how I fit them in a
Cobra III).

Bumper sticker: My other ship's a Thargoid Cruiser.

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> > I've found the illusive class 4 military drive so I'll be waiting
> > the othere side of your hyperjump clod and blow you away:-)
> 
> So you have a c4 military drive...big deal!  I've got a Large Plasma
> Accelerator and 50 shield generators (don't ask how I fit them in a
> Cobra III).
> 
> Bumper sticker: My other ship's a Thargoid Cruiser.

I always found that a Panther (Also known as Bigtrak :) with two small 
plasma accelerators (one in each turret), 50 shield gens, auto repair and 
any other toys I fancied made life easier in Frontier.  Although I did 
occasionally clip myself with the plasma accelerator and knock down all 
of my shields and quite a lot of hull as well.

It's amazing what you can afford if you have lots of patience on the Sol 
<-> Barnards Star run <grin>

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:34:13 -0000, Jamie Davison wrote:
>> > I've found the illusive class 4 military drive so I'll be waiting
>> > the othere side of your hyperjump clod and blow you away:-)
>> 
>> So you have a c4 military drive...big deal!  I've got a Large Plasma
>> Accelerator and 50 shield generators (don't ask how I fit them in a
>> Cobra III).
>> 
>> Bumper sticker: My other ship's a Thargoid Cruiser.
>
>I always found that a Panther (Also known as Bigtrak :) with two small 
>plasma accelerators (one in each turret), 50 shield gens, auto repair and 
>any other toys I fancied made life easier in Frontier.  Although I did 
>occasionally clip myself with the plasma accelerator and knock down all 
>of my shields and quite a lot of hull as well.
>
>It's amazing what you can afford if you have lots of patience on the Sol 
><-> Barnards Star run <grin>

My home is propbably Facec (sp?) but I'm quite often found doing runos between
Lave - Ridquat, Diso and Lesti you can always get some serious agro over 
that way:-)

My ship's over on the win machine so I don't get to play out much these days,
they sould make a UNIX version. 

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:34:13 -0000, Jamie Davison wrote:
>> > I've found the illusive class 4 military drive so I'll be waiting
>> > the othere side of your hyperjump clod and blow you away:-)
>> 
>> So you have a c4 military drive...big deal!  I've got a Large Plasma
>> Accelerator and 50 shield generators (don't ask how I fit them in a
>> Cobra III).
>> 
>> Bumper sticker: My other ship's a Thargoid Cruiser.
>
>I always found that a Panther (Also known as Bigtrak :) with two small 
>plasma accelerators (one in each turret), 50 shield gens, auto repair and 
>any other toys I fancied made life easier in Frontier.  Although I did 
>occasionally clip myself with the plasma accelerator and knock down all 
>of my shields and quite a lot of hull as well.
>
>It's amazing what you can afford if you have lots of patience on the Sol 
><-> Barnards Star run <grin>

PS: I've had the same pilot/game going since 1995. 

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Steve wrote:
> PS: I've had the same pilot/game going since 1995.

What's your elite rating?
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 18:11:18 -0500, Timothy R. Cook wrote:
>Steve wrote:
>> PS: I've had the same pilot/game going since 1995.
>
>What's your elite rating?

Elite and no cheating.  

I'll go and have a look on the win machine.....

I think I'm a Marquis in the IMP Navy, I can't see now, the icon
I've been using doesn't want to work, I think it might have something
to do with me upgrading the browser to IE5.5 recently.  It's complaining
about lack of memory etc.  

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Morning all,

On 14 Dec 2001 17:55:30 -0500, Steve wrote:
[...]
> My ship's over on the win machine so I don't get to play out much these days,
> they sould make a UNIX version. 

If you've been reading alt.fan.elite, you'd be aware of the couple of
source-available Elite ports.

First is 'Elite: The New Kind' by Christian Pender - a
reverse-engineering of the Archimedes or BBC Elite, and then there is
something called 'JJFFE', which appears to be a reverse-engineering of
Elite: First Encounters.

But what I'd like is a Unix / Linux port of Frontier: Elite 2.

> Cheers
> Steve              email mailto:ste### [at] zeroppsuklinuxnet

(Another) Steve

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On 16 Dec 2001 17:34:33 -0500, Steve Oxley wrote:

>If you've been reading alt.fan.elite, you'd be aware of the couple of
>source-available Elite ports.

Didn't know it existed, I'll have to check it out. 

>
>First is 'Elite: The New Kind' by Christian Pender - a
>reverse-engineering of the Archimedes or BBC Elite, and then there is
>something called 'JJFFE', which appears to be a reverse-engineering of
>Elite: First Encounters.
>
>But what I'd like is a Unix / Linux port of Frontier: Elite 2.

Me too. 

Followups set to povray.off-topic.

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