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1.1 root 1: .TH GAMES 1
2: .SH NAME
3: 4s, 5s, ana, mandel, plumb, smiley, life, fsim, clock, catclock, fireworks, swar, festoon \- time wasters
4: .SH SYNOPSIS
5: .B games/4s
6: .br
7: .B games/5s
8: .br
9: .B games/ana
10: [
11: .I fixwords
12: ]
13: .br
14: .B games/mandel
15: .br
16: .B games/plumb
17: [
18: .I level
19: ]
20: .br
21: .B games/smiley
22: .br
23: .B games/life
24: .I startfile
25: .br
26: .B games/fsim
27: .br
28: .B games/clock
29: .br
30: .B games/catclock
31: [
32: .B -c
33: ]
34: .br
35: .B games/fireworks
36: .br
37: .B games/swar
38: .br
39: .B games/festoon
40: [
41: .B -p
42: ]
43: [
44: .B -e
45: ]
46: [
47: .B -t
48: ]
49: [
50: .B -sseed
51: ]
52: [
53: .I len
54: ]
55: [
56: .I pfn
57: ]
58: .SH DESCRIPTION
59: There are a few games in
60: .BR /bin/games :
61: .TP \w'\fLfireworksXX'u
62: .BR 4s , " 5s"
63: Try to fill complete rows using 4-square or 5-square tiles.
64: Move tiles left or right by moving the mouse.
65: Rotate tiles with buttons 1 and 3.
66: Drop tiles for more points with button 2 or the space bar.
67: .TP
68: .B ana
69: Find anagrams for words typed on standard input.
70: Anagrams can contain several dictionary words.
71: The
72: .I fixwords
73: argument or numbers typed on standard input fix the number of
74: words in the output anagrams.
75: .TP
76: .B mandel
77: Compute and display Mandelbrot sets.
78: Menus on the mouse buttons control various things.
79: .TP
80: .B plumb
81: Build a plumbing system. Keep ahead of the advancing oil
82: and don't waste pipe. The
83: .I level
84: argument lets you start at a harder level.
85: .TP
86: .B smiley
87: A game of historical importance.
88: Type space to shoot, comma to move left, and period to go right.
89: .TP
90: .B life
91: Play the game of life, given an initial position.
92: There is a library of interesting initial positions;
93: the library is consulted if
94: .I startfile
95: cannot be found.
96: .TP
97: .B fsim
98: Pretend you're flying a Cessna.
99: .TP
100: .BR clock , " catclock
101: Display analog clocks. Option
102: .B -c
103: makes
104: .I catclock
105: crosseyed.
106: .TP
107: .B fireworks
108: Hoist the fiery blue peter.
109: .TP
110: .B swar
111: Space war for two players called MCI and SPRINT.
112: One player types
113: .B a
114: or
115: .B d
116: to turn left or right,
117: .B s
118: to shoot,
119: .B x
120: to enter hyperspace,
121: and
122: .B w
123: to accelerate.
124: The other player uses
125: .LR k ,
126: .BR ; ,
127: .BR l ,
128: .BR .
129: and
130: .BR o .
131: AT&T scores whenever either ship shoots itself or otherwise
132: causes mayhem. Hyperspace is occasionally fatal.
133: .TP
134: .B festoon
135: Traditional radical monoarchate qualitativeness. Now produces
136: pictures
137: .RB ( -p ),
138: tables
139: .RB ( -t ),
140: and equations
141: .RB ( -e ).
142: The seed can be set to recreate a specific document.
143: .B Len
144: is sentence length, and
145: .B pfn
146: is percent faked nouns (default 0).
147: .SH FILES
148: .TF /sys/games/lib/plumb/scores
149: .TP
150: .B /sys/games/lib/4scores
151: scores of
152: .I 4s
153: games
154: .TP
155: .B /sys/games/lib/5scores
156: scores of
157: .I 5s
158: games
159: .TP
160: .B /sys/games/lib/plumb/scores
161: scores of
162: .I plumb
163: games
164: .TP
165: .B /sys/games/lib/anawords
166: used by
167: .I ana
168: .TP
169: .B /sys/games/lib/plumb/*
170: miscellaneous files used by
171: .I plumb
172: .TP
173: .B /sys/games/lib/life/*
174: interesting starting positions
175: .SH SOURCE
176: .B /sys/src/games
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