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The Punk - I am using Moonbase Alpha b_V5a. I switched off all visual parameters and reduced the video size to 800 x 600. Then all the Moonbase Alpha and Eagle II scenarios began to work. This seemed to imply that there wasn't enough processor speed/memory available. I restarted Windows...

Martin - Thanks for taking the trouble to help a beginner. Yours is a truly great product and has helped me to learn so much.

I really enjoyed reading your enthusiastic and detailed account of Project Mercury. I have yet to master flying to the moon. As soon as I think I know what I am doing I will start at the beginning and relive the Mercury missions. Good Luck with Gemini.:thumbup:

The Punk - We are making progress. No more error messages about Moon surface bases. Next problem - orbiter loads but does not display anything. It continues running but returns to the desktop. I have to use Task Manager to close it down. The log has the following messages. Can you help...

The Punk - Ausgezeichnet - I will get on with those edits right now. I will let you know how I get on. garyw - thanks for your help too.

Is there anything I can do to fix the problem so that Moonbas Alpha works?

Thanks, I will give that a try. ---------- Post added at 20:29 ---------- Previous post was at 20:17 ---------- The Punk - dankeschon - I now have an orbiter.log file. It tells me that there is a syntax error in the moon surface base list. The last entry was for Spacecraft3.dll . I will...

Yes - Windows Vista.

The Punk - The trouble is, there doesn't seem to be a file named orbiter or orbiter.log . I am looking in the right place, the main directory that contains the orbiter.exe, but I cannot see the file. Should it always be there, or is is deleted each time you start or exit orbiter?

Garyw - If I have a file called Orbiter.log, I can't see it using Windows explorer. Is it in the main directory with orbiter.exe ? I have "show hidden files and folders" on.

Guten Abend Deutschland! Can you be more specific, as I don't have a file with the name Orbiter.log . Tschus. ---------- Post added at 19:41 ---------- Previous post was at 19:39 ---------- Garyw - yes, I have downloaded spacecraft3.dll and .cfg

Hello Fellow Orbinauts. I am having difficulty installing the Moonbase Alpha add-on to a clean installation of Orbiter 2006. Most times Orbiter will crash just after reading spacecraft3 file, but not every time. Other times I get a message referring to Orbiter.log . I assume that the log...

PhantomCriser - thanks for the tips and encouragement. You read my mind - yes I am trying to re-live the scene from the film and I am all over the place - frustrating! I will practice with the Luna-Ob1 replacement and Station III. Cheers.

One Year Later I agree with Thunder Chicken's suggestion - allow the pilot's manual approach using translation thrusters with an autopilot compensating automatically for rotation forces. Otherwise, how can we simulate the approach to Station V as seen in the film.

I have been able to dock with the non-rotating ISS. While approaching the rotating Station V of the World of 2001, I do not seem to have any control once I attempt to rotate with the station. Following advice, I do not rotate the ship until I am within a few meters of the station. The green...