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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man6/battlestar.6 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man6/battlestar.6 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0d1602ba --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man6/battlestar.6 @@ -0,0 +1,174 @@ +.\" $NetBSD: battlestar.6,v 1.14 2003/08/07 09:37:00 agc Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors +.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software +.\" without specific prior written permission. +.\" +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND +.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE +.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE +.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE +.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL +.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS +.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) +.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT +.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY +.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF +.\" SUCH DAMAGE. +.\" +.\" @(#)battlestar.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 +.\" +.Dd September 7, 2000 +.Dt BATTLESTAR 6 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm battlestar +.Nd a tropical adventure game +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm +.Op Fl r +.Op Ar saved-file +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +is an adventure game in the classic style. +However, it's slightly less of a puzzle and more a game of exploration. +There are a few magical words in the game, but on the whole, simple English +should suffice to make one's desires understandable to the parser. +.Sh THE SETTING +In the days before the darkness came, when battlestars ruled the heavens... +.Bd -literal -offset indent +Three He made and gave them to His daughters, +Beautiful nymphs, the goddesses of the waters. +One to bring good luck and simple feats of wonder, +Two to wash the lands and churn the waves asunder, +Three to rule the world and purge the skies with thunder. +.Ed +.Pp +In those times great wizards were known and their powers were beyond belief. +They could take any object from thin air, and, uttering the word +.Sq su +could disappear. +.Pp +In those times men were known for their lust for gold and desire to +wear fine weapons. +Swords and coats of mail were fashioned that could withstand a laser blast. +.Pp +But when the darkness fell, the rightful reigns were toppled. +Swords and helms and heads of state went rolling across the grass. +The entire fleet of battlestars was reduced to a single ship. +.Sh SAMPLE COMMANDS +.Bd -literal -offset indent +take --- take an object +drop --- drop an object + +wear --- wear an object you are holding +draw --- carry an object you are wearing + +put on --- take an object and wear it +take off -- draw an object and drop it + +throw \*[Lt]object\*[Gt] \*[Lt]direction\*[Gt] + +! \*[Lt]shell esc\*[Gt] +.Ed +.Sh IMPLIED OBJECTS +.Bd -literal -offset indent +\*[Gt]-: take watermelon +watermelon: +Taken. +\*[Gt]-: eat +watermelon: +Eaten. +\*[Gt]-: take knife and sword and apple, drop all +knife: +Taken. +broadsword: +Taken. +apple: +Taken. +knife: +Dropped. +broadsword: +Dropped. +apple: +Dropped. +\*[Gt]-: get +knife: +Taken. +.Ed +.Pp +Notice that the "shadow" of the next word stays around if you +want to take advantage of it. +That is, saying "take knife" and then "drop" +will drop the knife you just took. +.Sh SCORE \*[Am] INVEN +The two commands +.Dq score +and +.Dq inven +will print out your current status in the game. +.Sh SAVING A GAME +The command +.Dq save +will save your game in a file called +.Pa .Bstar +in your home directory by default. +You can recover a saved game by using the +.Fl r +option when you start up the +game, or by giving the name of the saved file as an argument. +Save files will be saved to and restored from your home directory unless a +path is specified - i.e., +.Dq Li battlestar -r savedgame +will look for +.Pa savedgame +in your home directory, but +.Dq Li battlestar -r ./savedgame +will look in the current directory. +.Dq Li battlestar -r +will look for the default file, +.Pa .Bstar +in your home directory. +.Sh DIRECTIONS +The compass directions N, S, E, and W can be used if you have a compass. +If you don't have a compass, you'll have to say R, L, A, or B, which +stand for Right, Left, Ahead, and Back. +Directions printed in room descriptions are +always printed in R, L, A, and B relative directions. +.Sh HISTORY +I wrote Battlestar in 1979 in order to experiment with the niceties of +the C Language. +Most interesting things that happen in the game are hardwired into the +code, so don't send me any hate mail about it! +Instead, enjoy art for art's sake! +.Sh AUTHOR +.An David Riggle +.Sh INSPIRATION \*[Am] ASSISTANCE +.Bl -item -compact +.It +Chris Guthrie +.It +Peter Da Silva +.It +Kevin Brown +.It +Edward Wang +.It +Ken Arnold \*[Am] Company +.El +.Sh BUGS +Countless. +.Sh FAN MAIL +Send to edward%ucbarpa@berkeley.arpa, chris%ucbcory@berkeley.arpa, +riggle.pa@xerox.arpa. |