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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]

               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 computer.

       2. Run some client programs as

       % nadar -s [Server's hostname] -p [Player's name]

       on the some client computers.

       3. If game screen is too large or playing speed is very slow, Run
       clients with size option to reduce the size of the screen.

       % nadar -s [Server's hostname] -p [Player's name] -size 30

       4. If the performance of client computer is very high, try big size.

       % nadar -s [Server's hostname] -p [Player's name] -size 120

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.

       q

               Quit.

SEE ALSO
       X(1), nadars(1)

AUTHOR
       Programed by Sakai Hiroaki.
       E-Mail : hsakai@m8.ffn.ne.jp
       http://web.ffn.ne.jp/~hsakai/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) 2000-2003 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.

                                 January 2003                         NADAR(1)