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1.1     ! root        1: .TH WARP 6
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: warp - a real-time space war game
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B warp [options]
        !             6: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             7: .I Warp
        !             8: is a real-time space war game that requires skill and quick thinking.
        !             9: "Real-time" in this context means that the enemies keep moving (and shooting)
        !            10: even if you don't.
        !            11: A unique feature of
        !            12: .I warp
        !            13: is that blast propagates; it is unhealthy to remain near things that are
        !            14: in the process of blowing up.
        !            15: If a given universe is above a critical density it may chain react.
        !            16: Scoring is like many popular arcade games--there are multiple waves which
        !            17: get harder and harder as you go along.
        !            18: Nobody has ever maxed out the scoreboard without cheating.
        !            19: .PP
        !            20: Unlike many space-war games,
        !            21: .I warp
        !            22: is not simply a shooting gallery.
        !            23: Along with phasers and photon torpedoes, you have tractor beams and a cloaking
        !            24: device.
        !            25: Skill in navigation is important.
        !            26: It helps to be schizophrenic, because you must manage an Enterprise and a Base
        !            27: simultaneously.
        !            28: And enemies do not simply shoot back.
        !            29: You can get tailed, absorbed, snuck up upon, hemmed in, rammed, loved to death,
        !            30: reprimanded for destroying civilized life, dragged around, robbed, damaged
        !            31: and eaten.
        !            32: And if you should happen to get bored by the enemies (a trifle unlikely),
        !            33: you can always watch the interesting star patterns.
        !            34: In fact, you'll have to, since your tactics will depend upon what kind of
        !            35: universe you find yourself in.
        !            36: .PP
        !            37: .I Warp
        !            38: is played in a double wraparound universe, i.e. the bottom is connected to the
        !            39: top, and the right is connected to the left.
        !            40: You need a crt with random cursor addressing and at least 24 lines by 80
        !            41: columns.
        !            42: For more information about about how to play, simply run
        !            43: .I warp
        !            44: and say "y" when it asks if you want to see the instructions.
        !            45: There is also a single-page command summary that you can get while playing
        !            46: by typing a "?".
        !            47: .PP
        !            48: Command line options include:
        !            49: .TP 5
        !            50: .B -b
        !            51: Put
        !            52: .I warp
        !            53: into beginner mode.
        !            54: Makes the difficulty increase more slowly, but penalizes you for it.
        !            55: .TP 5
        !            56: .B -d<n>
        !            57: Sets the initial difficulty to
        !            58: .BR n .
        !            59: .TP 5
        !            60: .B -l
        !            61: Play a low-speed game.
        !            62: Changes the basic cycle time from 1 second to 2 seconds.
        !            63: This switch is automatically set at baud rates below 2400.
        !            64: You may want to set it at higher speeds if your terminal cannot keep up
        !            65: with the output.
        !            66: (This should never happen on BSD systems, which have an IOCTL call to
        !            67: determine output queue length.)
        !            68: Because this makes the game easier, a separate scoreboard is kept for
        !            69: low-speed games.
        !            70: .TP 5
        !            71: .B -m
        !            72: Terminal has a meta key which turns on the eighth bit.  Ordinarily the
        !            73: eighth bit is stripped in order to ignore parity.
        !            74: Metacharacters will appear to the keymap as prefixed with a ^A, and will
        !            75: subsequently have the same effect as a control character, unless otherwise
        !            76: mapped.
        !            77: .TP 5
        !            78: .B -s
        !            79: Just prints out the scoreboards and saved games and then exits.
        !            80: .TP 5
        !            81: .B -v
        !            82: Prints out the version number.
        !            83: .TP 5
        !            84: .B -x
        !            85: Play an experimental game.
        !            86: This causes
        !            87: .I warp
        !            88: to ignore any saved game, and disables the ability to save
        !            89: the current game.
        !            90: Thus you can play around with something or show
        !            91: .I warp
        !            92: to someone without jeopardizing a currently saved game.
        !            93: .SH ENVIRONMENT
        !            94: .TP 5
        !            95: .B WARPMACRO
        !            96: If defined, names a file containing keyboard mappings and macros.
        !            97: If not defined, the value %X/Kbmap.%{TERM} is assumed.
        !            98: The macro file contains lines of the following form:
        !            99: .sp
        !           100: <keystroke-sequence> <whitespace> <canonical-keystroke-sequence>
        !           101: .sp
        !           102: You may use certain % interpolations and ^<letter> control characters.
        !           103: For possible % interpolations see warp.h.
        !           104: Sequences in the canonical-keystroke-sequence bounded by ^(...^) are
        !           105: subject to reinterpretation via the keymap.
        !           106: This file has two major uses.
        !           107: First, you can set up your commands to use any kind of prefix key your terminal
        !           108: might have, or change the key bindings in any other way you choose.
        !           109: Second, you can define arbitrary macros, such as this:
        !           110: .sp
        !           111: # define Corbamite maneuver
        !           112: =      DDllllll
        !           113: .SH AUTHOR
        !           114: Larry Wall <[email protected]>
        !           115: .SH FILES
        !           116: ~/.fullname, if full names aren't in /etc/passwd
        !           117: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !           118: Generally self-documenting, as they say.
        !           119: .SH BUGS
        !           120: Addicting.
        !           121: At the end of a wave, all you have to do to keep going is hit a space.
        !           122: You see the message "Hit space to continue" and automatically hit space.
        !           123: About 2 seconds later you remember you wanted to go home, but by then
        !           124: it's too late to escape without penalty.
        !           125: .PP
        !           126: You can't kill a backgrounded
        !           127: .I warp
        !           128: process directly, because it is running setuid.
        !           129: You have to use the killer built in to
        !           130: .IR warp .
        !           131: .PP
        !           132: Now that there is a space amoeba, there ought to be tribbles.
        !           133: But it might be too much trouble...

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