NAME
moon-buggy - drive some car across the moon
SYNOPSIS
moon-buggy [-hnsV] [--help] [--no-title] [--show-scores] [--version]
DESCRIPTION
Moon-buggy is a simple character graphics game, where you drive some kind of car across the moon´s surface. Unfortunately there are dangerous craters there. Fortunately your car can jump over them!
OPTIONS
The program understands the following command line options.
- -h, --help
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shows a short usage message.
- -m, --mesg
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disable write access to your terminal by other users, so your boss can´t disturb your game play with the help of "write" or "finger".
- -n, --no-title
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skips the title screen.
- -s, --show-scores
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shows the current highscore list and exits.
- -V, --version
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prints the program´s version to standard output and exits.
KEYS
The moon-buggy is controlled by a couple of keys, which are described near the bottom of the screen. Most important are the following keys.
- SPC, j
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makes your car jump. The length of a jump is fixed and you can only start a new jump, while the wheels have contact to the ground.
- a, l
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fires the mining laser. The laser is used to remove stones, which may block your way.
- q
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quits the game prematurely. But you still keep your score and may enter the highscore list.
FILES
The following files on your system are related to moon-buggy.
- /usr/games/moon-buggy
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the moon-buggy executable.
- /var/games/moon-buggy/mbscore
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the global score file
- $HOME/.mbscore
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the local score file. This is used, if moon-buggy has no write access to the global score file.
SEE ALSO
Moon-buggy Usage and Maintenance by Jochen Voss.
COPYING
Copyright © 2004 Jochen Voss
Moon-buggy is free software. Read the file COPYING of the source code distribution for details or press ´c´ at moon-buggy´s title screen.
AUTHOR
The program moon-buggy was implemented by Jochen Voss ([email protected]).