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