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diff --git a/warp/warp.man b/warp/warp.man new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a5b0cedb --- /dev/null +++ b/warp/warp.man @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +.TH WARP 6 +.SH NAME +warp - a real-time space war game +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B warp [options] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Warp +is a real-time space war game that requires skill and quick thinking. +"Real-time" in this context means that the enemies keep moving (and shooting) +even if you don't. +A unique feature of +.I warp +is that blast propagates; it is unhealthy to remain near things that are +in the process of blowing up. +If a given universe is above a critical density it may chain react. +Scoring is like many popular arcade games--there are multiple waves which +get harder and harder as you go along. +Nobody has ever maxed out the scoreboard without cheating. +.PP +Unlike many space-war games, +.I warp +is not simply a shooting gallery. +Along with phasers and photon torpedoes, you have tractor beams and a cloaking +device. +Skill in navigation is important. +It helps to be schizophrenic, because you must manage an Enterprise and a Base +simultaneously. +And enemies do not simply shoot back. +You can get tailed, absorbed, snuck up upon, hemmed in, rammed, loved to death, +reprimanded for destroying civilized life, dragged around, robbed, damaged +and eaten. +And if you should happen to get bored by the enemies (a trifle unlikely), +you can always watch the interesting star patterns. +In fact, you'll have to, since your tactics will depend upon what kind of +universe you find yourself in. +.PP +.I Warp +is played in a double wraparound universe, i.e. the bottom is connected to the +top, and the right is connected to the left. +You need a crt with random cursor addressing and at least 24 lines by 80 +columns. +For more information about about how to play, simply run +.I warp +and say "y" when it asks if you want to see the instructions. +There is also a single-page command summary that you can get while playing +by typing a "?". +.PP +Command line options include: +.TP 5 +.B -b +Put +.I warp +into beginner mode. +Makes the difficulty increase more slowly, but penalizes you for it. +.TP 5 +.B -d<n> +Sets the initial difficulty to +.BR n . +.TP 5 +.B -l +Play a low-speed game. +Changes the basic cycle time from 1 second to 2 seconds. +This switch is automatically set at baud rates below 2400. +You may want to set it at higher speeds if your terminal cannot keep up +with the output. +(This should never happen on BSD systems, which have an IOCTL call to +determine output queue length.) +Because this makes the game easier, a separate scoreboard is kept for +low-speed games. +.TP 5 +.B -m +Terminal has a meta key which turns on the eighth bit. Ordinarily the +eighth bit is stripped in order to ignore parity. +Metacharacters will appear to the keymap as prefixed with a ^A, and will +subsequently have the same effect as a control character, unless otherwise +mapped. +.TP 5 +.B -s +Just prints out the scoreboards and saved games and then exits. +.TP 5 +.B -v +Prints out the version number. +.TP 5 +.B -x +Play an experimental game. +This causes +.I warp +to ignore any saved game, and disables the ability to save +the current game. +Thus you can play around with something or show +.I warp +to someone without jeopardizing a currently saved game. +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.TP 5 +.B WARPMACRO +If defined, names a file containing keyboard mappings and macros. +If not defined, the value %X/Kbmap.%{TERM} is assumed. +The macro file contains lines of the following form: +.sp +<keystroke-sequence> <whitespace> <canonical-keystroke-sequence> +.sp +You may use certain % interpolations and ^<letter> control characters. +For possible % interpolations see warp.h. +Sequences in the canonical-keystroke-sequence bounded by ^(...^) are +subject to reinterpretation via the keymap. +This file has two major uses. +First, you can set up your commands to use any kind of prefix key your terminal +might have, or change the key bindings in any other way you choose. +Second, you can define arbitrary macros, such as this: +.sp +# define Corbamite maneuver += DDllllll +.SH AUTHOR +Larry Wall <lwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP> +.SH FILES +~/.fullname, if full names aren't in /etc/passwd +.SH DIAGNOSTICS +Generally self-documenting, as they say. +.SH BUGS +Addicting. +At the end of a wave, all you have to do to keep going is hit a space. +You see the message "Hit space to continue" and automatically hit space. +About 2 seconds later you remember you wanted to go home, but by then +it's too late to escape without penalty. +.PP +You can't kill a backgrounded +.I warp +process directly, because it is running setuid. +You have to use the killer built in to +.IR warp . +.PP +Now that there is a space amoeba, there ought to be tribbles. +But it might be too much trouble... |