     NADAR(1)                                                           NADAR(1)
                                     March 2001

     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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     NADAR(1)                                                           NADAR(1)
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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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     NADAR(1)                                                           NADAR(1)
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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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     NADAR(1)                                                           NADAR(1)
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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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