So I had this old laptop with a broken hard drive, and I recently replaced that with an SSD.
Now that I had a spare working computer again, I thought it might be fun to return to Orbiter. I've done the download and install, and everything seems to work fine, or it will when I finish configuring the keymap for a keyboard without a numpad. I haven't installed any add-ons yet, though.
I've always been interested in the early historical space programs, so the first thing I looked for in Orbit Hangar was Little Joe, and here's the difference. Rather than a stand-alone add-on, it appears that Little Joe has been merged into Project Mercury. Also unlike before, when I look at the entry for Project Mercury, I don't see a list of prerequisites that I have to install before the add-on will run, for example Multistage, Earth1962, spacecraft.dll, and so on. Has the framework been refactored so that we no longer need to separately install this infrastrucure? Or was Project Mercury reworked to include the infrastruture?
I even noticed that a couple of hundred more people have downloaded my Gemini Joe add-on, which if memory serves I developed for Orbiter 2006! Obviously I have no way of knowing when the most recent downloads were, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see that the counter ticked up.
Now that I had a spare working computer again, I thought it might be fun to return to Orbiter. I've done the download and install, and everything seems to work fine, or it will when I finish configuring the keymap for a keyboard without a numpad. I haven't installed any add-ons yet, though.
I've always been interested in the early historical space programs, so the first thing I looked for in Orbit Hangar was Little Joe, and here's the difference. Rather than a stand-alone add-on, it appears that Little Joe has been merged into Project Mercury. Also unlike before, when I look at the entry for Project Mercury, I don't see a list of prerequisites that I have to install before the add-on will run, for example Multistage, Earth1962, spacecraft.dll, and so on. Has the framework been refactored so that we no longer need to separately install this infrastrucure? Or was Project Mercury reworked to include the infrastruture?
I even noticed that a couple of hundred more people have downloaded my Gemini Joe add-on, which if memory serves I developed for Orbiter 2006! Obviously I have no way of knowing when the most recent downloads were, but I'm pleasantly surprised to see that the counter ticked up.
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