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NAME
nadar - A client of a network tank battle game N.A.D.A.R. for X.
SYNOPSIS
nadar [ options ]
DESCRIPTION
This is a client of N.A.D.A.R. for X. N.A.D.A.R. is a network tank
battle game. You get into a tank, operate it, and destroy other tanks
to survive!
OPTIONS
You can use standard X Toolkit options.
-display [displayname]
This option specifies the name of the X server to use.
-geometry [+X+Y]
This option specifies the placement of the window on the
screen.
-name [name]
This option specifies the name of the application.
-bg, -background [color]
This option specifies the color of background.
-h, -help
Show help messages.
-s, -server [server's hostname]
This option specifies the hostname of the N.A.D.A.R.'s server.
-p, -player [player's name]
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This option specifies the name of the player.
-size [display size]
This option specifies the size of the game screen by percent.
Default value is 60.
-port This option specifies the port number of socket. Default port
number is 12010.
-direct-draw
Fast draw mode. Character pixmaps are copied to the game
window directly. But, characters are flickering in this mode.
This mode is unavailable in peephole game mode.
-no-direct-draw
No flickering mode. Character pixmaps are copied to the pixmap
temporarily and the pixmap is copied to the game window. This
mode is default.
START GAME
1. N.A.D.A.R. is a client-server model program. You should start the
server program before playing. Run
% nadars
on the server machine.
2. Run some client programs as
% nadar -s [Server's hostname] -p
on the some client machines.
3. If playing speed is very slow, Run clients with size option.
% nadar -s [Server's hostname] -p
4. If the performance of client machine is very high, try big size.
% nadar -s [Server's hostname] -p
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EXAMPLE
You want to run the server program on "nasu". And you want to play
N.A.D.A.R. on "tomato", "ninjin" and "daikon".
nasu> nadars
tomato> nadar -s ninjin -p Tanaka
ninjin> nadar -s ninjin -p Hashimoto
daikon> nadar -s ninjin -p Shida
PLAY
N.A.D.A.R. is a client-server model program. Start a server program
before clients start. See nadars(1) about server.
Operate your tank and destroy other tanks. You have canon and
missiles. Canon is limitless, but you have only 3 missiles.
KEY OPERATION
Up or i Go forward.
Down or k
Go backward.
Left or j
Turn left.
Right or l
Turn right.
x or Left-Alt
Fire the canon.
z or Left-Shift
Fire the missile.
s or Escape
Destroy.
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q Quit.
SEE ALSO
X(1), nadars(1)
AUTHOR
Programed by Sakai Hiroaki.
E-Mail : sakai@seki.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp, hsakai@pfu.co.jp,
hsakai@m8.people.or.jp
http://www.seki.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp/~sakai/myfreesoft/index.html
SPECIAL THANKS
Tanaka Makoto for drawing some pictures, test on FreeBSD, and many
advices.
Hashimoto Jun for test on Linux and many advices.
Sakai Takeyasu for some advices.
Ooue Shigeo for some advices.
Miyauchi-Seki Lab.'s people for many advices.
Koga Kazuhiro for test on Linux and some advices.
COPYRIGHT
N.A.D.A.R. Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Sakai Hiroaki.
All Rights Reserved.
N.A.D.A.R. is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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