GALAXIS(6) Games GALAXIS(6)NAMEgalaxis - rescue lifeboats lost in interstellar space
SYNOPSISgalaxisDESCRIPTION
Lifeboats from a crippled interstellar liner are adrift in a starfield.
To find them, you can place probes that look in all eight compass
directions and tell you how many lifeboats they see. If you drop a
probe directly on a lifeboat it will be revealed immediately. Your
objective: find the lifeboats as quickly as possible, before the
stranded passengers run out of oxygen!
This is a UNIX-hosted, curses-based clone of the nifty little Macintosh
freeware game Galaxis. It doesn't have the super-simple,
point-and-click interface of the original, but compensates by
automating away some of the game's simpler deductions.
To run it, simply type `galaxis'. The game screen includes a
description of all commands, including `?' for detailed help.
AUTHORS
The Macintosh game was designed and written by Christian Franz
<cfranz@iiic.ethz.ch>. This version was cloned by Eric S. Raymond
<esr@snark.thyrsus.com>. See ESR's home page at
http://www.catb.org/~esr/ for updates and other resources.
BUGS
This really ought to be an X game, but that would have been too much
like work.
galaxis 05/21/2014 GALAXIS(6)
