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TORNADO(6)                        Tornado 1.4                       TORNADO(6)

NAME
       tornado - clone of the original C64 game.

SYNOPSIS
       tornado [--connect IP|--demo|--help|--server|--version]

DESCRIPTION
       The object of the game tornado is to destroy your opponents house with
       the powers of rain, snow, hail, lightning and the tornado.

       After the game is started the two player enter their names. If you
       leave the field blank the computer will take the player's part. You can
       see two houses with each player name in the corner below it and a cloud
       on top of the screen, the sky. The player whose turn it is has an
       asterisk * next to his name.

       From the menu in the center of the screen each player now picks a
       weather phenomenon. A second box will appear where you can enter the
       aim you would like to use. You may have noticed the value Windspeed in
       the mid bottom of the screen by now. Ideally you would take aim 2 if
       windspeed is -2 for example and then your rain/hail/snow/tornado would
       go straight down the cloud. However, it's chosen randomly if the rain
       appears on the left side of the cloud or the right side, so aiming
       might be not that easy as it looks like.

       If you hit your opponent's house (or your own) the percentage counter
       will decrease depending on how much damage you did. If the counter is
       down to 0% the player loses the game.

       The keys you can use in the game are:

       s  selects snow
              Snow is a defensive weapon. If you hit a house with snow it
              creates a coating that hail cannot destroy. Only rain can be
              used to destroy that layer of snow.  Lightning and tornado are
              not effected.

       r  selects rain
              Destroys one row of the house. Can be used to melt a row of
              snow.

       h  selects hail
              This will destroy two rows of the house, but cannot destroy a
              snow coating.

       l  selects lightning
              Splits the house into two pieces. Not influenced by wind.

       t  selects tornado
              Not as effective as lightning but the tornado goes straight to
              the bottom of the house as well.

       q  quits the game

       o  show the highscores

       c  show current player scores

OPTIONS
       You can start the game with the following command line options:

       --connect IP, The game will connect to the server with the given host
       (IP or hostname).

       --demo, Self running demo mode.

       --help, Short help screen.

       --server, Starts the game in server mode and waits for a connecting
       client.

       --version, Shows the program version and exits.

FILES
       /usr/local/bin/tornado

       /usr/local/man/man6/tornado.6

       /var/games/tornado.scores

       /usr/local/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/tornado.mo

       /usr/local/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/tornado.mo

NOTES
       When you run the game in network mode you should have the same game
       versions on client and server side. Versions prior 1.0pre4 won't work
       at all due to the lack of network capability. The game will start with
       different versions, but it will probably crash at any time, if there
       are too many differences in the two versions.

       The Tornado game server runs on port 3000 TCP. (defined in main.c)

BUGS
       Destroying your own house will increase your score as well. :^)

AUTHOR
       Oliver Feiler <kiza@kcore.de>

Games                           31 January 2002                     TORNADO(6)