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.\" Copyright (c) 1986 Ed James. All rights reserved.
.\"
-.Dd May 31, 1993
+.Dd January 1, 2004
.Dt ATC 6
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
lets you try your hand at the nerve wracking duties of the air traffic
-controller without endangering the lives of millions of
-travelers each year.
+controller without endangering the lives of millions of travelers each year.
Your responsibilities require you to direct the flight of jets
and prop planes into and out of the flight arena and airports.
The speed (update time) and frequency of the planes depend on the
.Bl -tag -width flag
.It Fl u
Print the usage line and exit.
-.It Fl ?
+.It Fl \&?
Same as
.Fl u .
.It Fl l
.Pp
Suspending a game is not permitted.
If you get a talk message, tough.
-When was the last time an Air Traffic Controller got called away to
-the phone?
+When was the last time an Air Traffic Controller got called away to the phone?
.Sh THE DISPLAY
-.Pp
Depending on the terminal you run
.Nm
on, the screen will be divided into 4 areas.
It should be stressed that the terminal driver portion of the
game was designed to be reconfigurable, so the display format can vary
-depending the version you are playing.
+depending on the version you are playing.
The descriptions here are based on the ascii version of the game.
The game rules and input format, however, should remain consistent.
Control-L redraws the screen, should it become muddled.
planes must be going to land at the airport.
On ascii terminals, this is one of `^', `\*[Gt]', `\*[Lt]', and `v', to indicate
north (0 degrees), east (90), west (270) and south (180), respectively.
-The planes will also
-take off in this direction.
+The planes will also take off in this direction.
.Pp
Beacons are represented as circles or asterisks and a number.
Their purpose is to offer a place of easy reference to the plane pilots.
-See ``the delay command'' under the input section of this manual.
+See
+.Sx THE DELAY COMMAND
+section below.
.Pp
Entry/exit points are displayed as numbers along the border of the
radar screen.
These points have a direction associated with them, and
planes will always enter the arena from this direction.
On the ascii version of
-.Nm "" ,
+.Nm ,
this direction is not displayed.
It will become apparent what this direction is as the game progresses.
.Pp
to be a command and is therefore not displayed.
The following are some possible information lines:
.Pp
-.Bd -literal -unfilled -offset indent
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
B4*A0: Circle @ b1
g7 E4: 225
.Ed
.Ss INPUT AREA
The third area of the display is the input area.
It is here that your input is reflected.
-See the INPUT heading of this manual for more details.
+See the
+.Sx INPUT
+heading of this manual for more details.
.Ss AUTHOR AREA
This area is used simply to give credit where credit is due. :-)
.Sh INPUT
(hopefully) descriptive message will be printed under it.
.Pp
The command syntax is broken into two parts:
-.Em "Immediate Only"
+.Em Immediate Only
and
.Em Delayable
commands.
-.Em "Immediate Only"
+.Em Immediate Only
commands happen on the next update.
.Em Delayable
commands also happen on the next update unless they
In the following tables, the syntax
.Em [0\-9]
means any single digit, and
-.Em \*[Lt]dir\*[Gt]
+.Aq Em dir
refers to a direction, given by the keys around the `s' key: ``wedcxzaq''.
In absolute references, `q' refers to North-West or 315 degrees, and `w'
refers to North, or 0 degrees.
-In relative references, `q' refers to -45 degrees or 45 degrees left, and `w'
+In relative references, `q' refers to \-45 degrees or 45 degrees left, and `w'
refers to 0 degrees, or no change in direction.
.Pp
All commands start with a plane letter.
-This indicates the recipient
-of the command.
+This indicates the recipient of the command.
Case is ignored.
.Ss IMMEDIATE ONLY COMMANDS
.Bl -tag -width "aaaa"
.El
.It m
Mark: Display in highlighted mode.
-Plane and command information
-is displayed normally.
+Plane and command information is displayed normally.
.It i
Ignore: Do not display highlighted.
-Command is displayed as a
-line of dashes if there is no command.
+Command is displayed as a line of dashes if there is no command.
.It u
Unmark: Same as ignore, but if a delayed command is processed,
the plane will become marked.
-This is useful if you want
-to forget about a plane during part, but not all, of its
-journey.
+This is useful if you want to forget about a plane during part,
+but not all, of its journey.
.El
.Ss DELAYABLE COMMANDS
.Bl -tag -width "aaaa"
The shortest turn will be taken.
.It "tl [ dir ]"
Left: Turn counterclockwise: 45 degrees by default, or the amount
-specified in \*[Lt]dir\*[Gt] (not
+specified in
+.Aq dir
+(not
.Em to
-\*[Lt]dir\*[Gt].) `w' (0 degrees) is no turn.
-`e' is 45 degrees; `q' gives -45
-degrees counterclockwise, that is, 45 degrees clockwise.
+.Aq dir . )
+`w' (0 degrees) is no turn.
+`e' is 45 degrees; `q' gives \-45 degrees counterclockwise, that is,
+45 degrees clockwise.
.It "t- [ dir ]"
Same as left.
.It "tr [ dir ]"
-Right: Turn clockwise, 45 degrees by default, or the amount specified
-in \*[Lt]dir\*[Gt].
+Right: Turn clockwise, 45 degrees by default, or the amount specified in
+.Aq dir .
.It "t+ [ dir ]"
Same as right.
.It tL
.Ss THE DELAY COMMAND
The
.Em Delay
-(a/@)
-command may be appended to any
+(a/@) command may be appended to any
.Em Delayable
command.
-It allows the controller to instruct a plane to do an action
-when the plane reaches a particular beacon (or other objects in future
-versions).
+It allows the controller to instruct a plane to do an action when the
+plane reaches a particular beacon (or other objects in future versions).
.Bl -tag -width "aaaa"
.It ab Em number
-Do the delayable command when the plane reaches the specified
-beacon.
+Do the delayable command when the plane reaches the specified beacon.
The `b' for ``beacon'' is redundant to allow for expansion.
`@' can be used instead of `a'.
.El
.It
Jets move every update; prop planes move every other update.
.It
-All planes turn a most 90 degrees per movement.
+All planes turn at most 90 degrees per movement.
.It
Planes enter at 7000 feet and leave at 9000 feet.
.It
Planes flying at an altitude of 0 crash if they are not over an airport.
.It
Planes waiting at airports can only be told to take off (climb in altitude).
+.It
+Pressing return (that is, entering an empty command) will perform the
+next update immediately.
+This allows you to ``fast forward''
+the game clock if nothing interesting is happening.
.El
.Sh NEW GAMES
The
If a player specifies a game not in this file, his score will not be logged.
.Pp
The game field description files are broken into two parts.
-The first
-part is the definition section.
+The first part is the definition section.
Here, the four tunable game parameters must be set.
These variables are set with the syntax:
.Pp
.El
.Ed
.Pp
-For beacons, a simple x, y coordinate pair is used (enclosed in
-parenthesis).
+For beacons, a simple x, y coordinate pair is used (enclosed in parenthesis).
Airports and exits require a third value, which is one of the directions
.Em wedcxzaq .
For airports, this is the direction that planes must be going to take
-off and land, and for exits, this is the direction that planes will going
-when they
+off and land, and for exits, this is the direction that planes will be
+going when they
.Em enter
the arena.
This may not seem intuitive, but as there is no restriction on
.Em exactly
diagonal.
.Ss FIELD FILE EXAMPLE
-.Bd -literal -unfilled
+.Bd -literal
# This is the default game.
update = 5;
.Ed
.Sh FILES
Files are kept in a special directory.
-See the OPTIONS for a way to print this path out.
+See the
+.Sx OPTIONS
+section for a way to print this path out.
It is normally
.Pa /usr/share/games/atc .
.Pp
.Pp
The scores are kept in
.Pa /var/games/atc_score .
-.Sh AUTHOR
+.Sh AUTHORS
Ed James, UC Berkeley: edjames@ucbvax.berkeley.edu, ucbvax!edjames
.Pp
This game is based on someone's description of the overall flavor
of a game written for some unknown PC many years ago, maybe.
.Sh BUGS
The screen sometimes refreshes after you have quit.
-.Pp
-Yet Another Curses Bug was discovered during the development of this game.
-If your curses library clrtobot.o is version 5.1 or earlier,
-you will have erase problems with the backspace operator in the input
-window.
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