     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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