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 GALAXIS(6)                        galaxis                        GALAXIS(6)
 Games                                                                 Games

                                 10/19/2010



 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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