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