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Games Games
06/12/2019
NAME
galaxis - rescue lifeboats lost in interstellar space
SYNOPSIS
galaxis
DESCRIPTION
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
m[blue]http://www.catb.org/~esr/m[] for updates and other resources.
BUGS
This really ought to be an X game, but that would have been too much
like work.
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