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glaxium
glaxium - 3d spaceship shoot-em-up
SYNOPSIS
glaxium [options]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents glaxium command. This manual page
was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original
program does not have a manual page.
glaxium is a 3d 'shoot-em-up' game inspired by games such as Space
Invaders and Galaxian.
The goal is to destroy as many opposing ships as possible while
avoiding being destroyed yourself. The the screen shows your current
shield status; if it drops to empty, you will lose. The triangles in
the lower-right hand side of the screen show how many times you may
fire your special weapon.
Use the following keys to control your ship:
arrow keys or joystick
Move the ship
w, z Fire the normal weapon
x Fire the special weapon (you may fire this only a limited number
of times)
p Pause
q, Escape
Quit
d Display the current FPS count.
OPTIONS
All options begin with a single dash ('-') A summary of options is
included below.
-f Run in fullscreen mode.
-1 Use a resolution of 500x400 pixels.
-2 Use a resolution of 640x480 pixels.
-3 Use a resolution of 800x600 pixels. This is the default.
-4 Use a resolution of 1024x768 pixels.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/glaxium/README
AUTHOR
Xavier Hosxe <xhosxe@free.fr>
This manual page was written by Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).
April 4, 2001 GLAXIUM(6)