mikew

Yes, couldn't agree more. I need to do something else anyway, so let's give them the last word.

...and a song about the time dilation effects of close to speed of light space travel

I don't think I've heard that last one since the 80s. Making no excuses for re-posting this..

A classic, but apart from using the words 'Space Cowboy', they seem like a very terrestrial 5-piece beat combo. These guys are from another planet though.

Nice song, but I don't think she's singing about 'space', as a Silverado has no orbital capabilities, unless it belongs to Elon Musk. Here's a song with a proper space theme.

That was around 1992, so I have no idea what they dance to now, but here's a prediction from the 1980s

That was good. Let's go clubbing to maintain the positive vibe

Somewhere without snow.

..and now it's snowing.

Start of what is effectively 5 days off work for us. Not sure I can handle that, but right now...

Now, where was I? I think I'll put building a Windows version on ice for the time being as the dependencies are a real pain to handle. Some are very good like OpenSceneGraph and SDL which build straight away, but others are more problematic. Will revisit it later if I feel a bit masochistic. So, back at looking at the data side of things...which is where I should probably stay. There's an annoying amount of XML, but as I'm encountering it more and more at work it may be worth looking into tools to handle it.

Strewth!

Probably just the 'players' folder. I'd probably copy the whole TAW folder to be sure though.

Nothing wrong with that last one. I suppose some people might interpret it as 'Christmas Testicles', but that's their problem. Now, some prime Yuletide entertainment from 1969

Well, that was 'far out'. I guess you really want to get to 50000 posts before the year is out. The commercial reality:

I'll listen to those over the coming days, Anyway, going straight for the jugular with this NSFW ditty. This should definitely get me banned...

George HW Bush was one of the good ones.

Thanks! although once I got to _O_T__A. I put down Montana anyway. Didn't it used to be totally within Wyoming? Maybe that magma chamber is creeping northwards... That looks pretty bleak, Stans....and I see your flag is at half mast. My condolences. Always amusing to to read about global warming/climate change in the media. Not so amusing to read the science, but who cares about that?

Great to see Virginia has invested in decent infrastructure to deal with anything winter can throw at it. Old Guy, can you see Yellowstone from where you are? I'm doing a crossword and one of the clues is 'US state with Yellowstone'. I thought it was Wyoming, but Montana would fit in better with the letters I've already got.

Wow! I hope you''ve got plenty of food, water and ammo. I'm sure Donster will be along to dig you out

The Federation in Star Trek TOS wouldn't put up with any of that. There was one episode where a computer was keeping a group of of people in an idyllic existence until Kirk came along, destroyed the computer (Vaal?) and told them they'd be better off doing human things like fighting and dying. There's plenty of ST episodes dealing with various computer/AI scenarios and all of them pretty dystopian.

Great to hear! It would be better if we could use Open Track directly though, as then we could run DosBox natively on Linux. Maybe some day, I'll look again at how to do that...

I don't remember exactly what I did in 2013 when we released 'EF2000 Reloaded' There was some old TrackIR software dev kit that I used, but could not 'talk' directly to the TrackIR DLL, hence the enabler program. For TAW2.30, someone cleverer than me managed to intercept the calls for the 'Unity Reality' headset and repackage them in a way that TrackIR expects. Unfortunately, we don't have the source code of that patch so I don't know how he did it. To get Open Track working would require a recompile against the Open Track librariies I think.

Hi! If it's a file location problem, then you should move them from 'Program Files', not to it. Also, have you run the configure program to set up the sound? There is an extensive manual included with the 'Reloaded' package giving instructions on how to do this.

Yes, I admire the purity of TFXplorer. Sorry to drag you into this filth, but I'm trying to keep things to general C++ problems rather than specifics of the project. In a way, I'm sort of enjoying this. Anyway, from the linker /VERBOSE output, the libs you mention look they have been 'disallowed': Processed /DEFAULTLIB:vcruntime.lib Processed /DISALLOWLIB:libvcruntime.lib Processed /DEFAULTLIB:ucrt.lib Processed /DISALLOWLIB:libucrt.lib ...but that fits in with the /MD switch I'm using. I'll see if I can find out where that is defined..and currently reading this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/abx4dbyh(v=vs.140) The only odd thing that stands out is that these libraries are searched for in different places: Searching D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.11.25503\lib\x86\vcruntime.lib: Searching C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\lib\10.0.15063.0\ucrt\x86\ucrt.lib: Those seem to be the latest versions I have on this PC though. Now I'm wondering if this is an artifact of something upstream in the compile phase.