battlestar/battlestar.6

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  36 .Dd September 7, 2000
  37 .Dt BATTLESTAR 6
  38 .Os
  39 .Sh NAME
  40 .Nm battlestar
  41 .Nd a tropical adventure game
  42 .Sh SYNOPSIS
  43 .Nm
  44 .Op Fl r
  45 .Op Ar saved-file
  46 .Sh DESCRIPTION
  47 .Nm
  48 is an adventure game in the classic style.  However, it's slightly less
  49 of a
  50 puzzle and more a game of exploration.  There are a few magical words
  51 in the game, but on the whole, simple English
  52 should suffice to make one's desires understandable to the parser.
  53 .Sh THE SETTING
  54 In the days before the darkness came, when battlestars ruled the
  55 heavens...
  56 .Bd -literal -offset indent
  57 Three He made and gave them to His daughters,
  58 Beautiful nymphs, the goddesses of the waters.
  59 One to bring good luck and simple feats of wonder,
  60 Two to wash the lands and churn the waves asunder,
  61 Three to rule the world and purge the skies with thunder.
  62 .Ed
  63 .Pp
  64 In those times great wizards were known and their powers were beyond
  65 belief.  They could take any object from thin air, and, uttering the
  66 word
  67 .Sq su
  68 could disappear.
  69 .Pp
  70 In those times men were known for their lust of gold and desire to
  71 wear fine weapons.  Swords and coats of mail were fashioned that could
  72 withstand a laser blast.
  73 .Pp
  74 But when the darkness fell, the rightful reigns were toppled.  Swords
  75 and helms and heads of state went rolling across the grass.  The entire
  76 fleet of battlestars was reduced to a single ship.
  77 .Sh SAMPLE COMMANDS
  78 .Bd -literal -offset indent
  79 take    ---     take an object
  80 drop    ---     drop an object
  81
  82 wear    ---     wear an object you are holding
  83 draw    ---     carry an object you are wearing
  84
  85 puton   ---     take an object and wear it
  86 take off --     draw an object and drop it
  87
  88 throw  <object> <direction>
  89
  90 !       <shell esc>
  91 .Ed
  92 .Sh IMPLIED OBJECTS
  93 .Bd -literal -offset indent
  94 >-: take watermelon
  95 watermelon:
  96 Taken.
  97 >-: eat
  98 watermelon:
  99 Eaten.
 100 >-: take knife and sword and apple, drop all
 101 knife:
 102 Taken.
 103 broadsword:
 104 Taken.
 105 apple:
 106 Taken.
 107 knife:
 108 Dropped.
 109 broadsword:
 110 Dropped.
 111 apple:
 112 Dropped.
 113 >-: get
 114 knife:
 115 Taken.
 116 .Ed
 117 .Pp
 118 Notice that the "shadow" of the next word stays around if you
 119 want to take advantage of it.  That is, saying "take knife" and then
 120 "drop"
 121 will drop the knife you just took.
 122 .Sh SCORE & INVEN
 123 The two commands
 124 .Dq score
 125 and
 126 .Dq inven
 127 will print out your current status in the game.
 128 .Sh SAVING A GAME
 129 The command
 130 .Dq save
 131 will save your game in a file called
 132 .Pa .Bstar
 133 in your home directory
 134 by default.
 135 You can recover a saved game by using the
 136 .Fl r
 137 option when you start up the
 138 game, or by giving the name of the saved file as an argument.
 139 Save files will be saved to and restored from your home directory unless a
 140 path is specified \- i.e.,
 141 .Dq Li battlestar -r savedgame
 142 will look for
 143 .Pa savedgame
 144 in your home directory,
 145 but
 146 .Dq Li battlestar -r ./savedgame
 147 will look in the current directory.
 148 .Dq Li battlestar -r
 149 will look for the default file,
 150 .Pa .Bstar
 151 in your home directory.
 152 .Sh DIRECTIONS
 153 The compass directions N, S, E, and W can be used if you have a compass.
 154 If you don't have a compass, you'll have to say R, L, A, or B, which
 155 stand for Right, Left, Ahead, and Back.
 156 Directions printed in room descriptions are
 157 always printed in R, L, A, & B relative directions.
 158 .Sh HISTORY
 159 I wrote Battlestar in 1979 in order to experiment with the niceties of
 160 the C Language.
 161 Most interesting things that happen in the game are hardwired into the
 162 code, so don't send me any hate mail about it!
 163 Instead, enjoy art for art's sake!
 164 .Sh AUTHOR
 165 David Riggle
 166 .Sh INSPIRATION & ASSISTANCE
 167 .Bl -item -compact
 168 .It
 169 Chris Guthrie
 170 .It
 171 Peter Da Silva
 172 .It
 173 Kevin Brown
 174 .It
 175 Edward Wang
 176 .It
 177 Ken Arnold & Company
 178 .El
 179 .Sh BUGS
 180 Countless.
 181 .Sh FAN MAIL
 182 Send to edward%ucbarpa@berkeley.arpa, chris%ucbcory@berkeley.arpa,
 183 riggle.pa@xerox.arpa.