148 lines
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148 lines
4.0 KiB
Groff
.\" $NetBSD: hack.6,v 1.7 2001/04/02 22:42:38 wiz Exp $ -*- nroff -*-
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.Dd March 31, 1985
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.Dt HACK 6
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm hack
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.Nd Exploring The Dungeons of Doom
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm /usr/games/hack
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.Op Fl d Ar directory
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.Op Fl n
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.Op Fl u Ar playername
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.Nm /usr/games/hack
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.Op Fl d Ar directory
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.Op Fl s
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.Op Fl X
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.Op Ar playername ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm
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is a display oriented dungeons & dragons - like game.
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Both display and command structure resemble rogue.
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(For a game with the same structure but entirely different display -
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a real cave instead of dull rectangles - try Quest.)
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.Pp
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To get started you really only need to know two commands. The command
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.Ic ?
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will give you a list of the available commands and the command
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.Ic /
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will identify the things you see on the screen.
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.Pp
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To win the game (as opposed to merely playing to beat other people high
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scores) you must locate the Amulet of Yendor which is somewhere below
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the 20th level of the dungeon and get it out. Nobody has achieved this
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yet and if somebody does, he will probably go down in history as a hero
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among heroes.
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.Pp
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When the game ends, either by your death, when you quit, or if you escape
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from the caves,
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.Nm
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will give you (a fragment of) the list of top scorers. The scoring
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is based on many aspects of your behavior but a rough estimate is
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obtained by taking the amount of gold you've found in the cave plus four
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times your (real) experience. Precious stones may be worth a lot of gold
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when brought to the exit.
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There is a 10% penalty for getting yourself killed.
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.Pp
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The administration of the game is kept in the directory specified with the
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.Fl d
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option, or, if no such option is given, in the directory specified by
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the environment variable
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.Ev HACKDIR ,
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or, if no such variable exists, in the current directory.
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This same directory contains several auxiliary files such as lockfiles and
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the list of topscorers and a subdirectory
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.Pa save
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where games are saved.
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The game administrator may however choose to install hack with a fixed
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playing ground, usually
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.Pa /var/games/hackdir .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl n
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option suppresses printing of the news.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl u
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.Ar playername
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option supplies the answer to the question "Who are you?".
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When
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.Ar playername
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has as suffix one of
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.Em -T ,
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.Em -S ,
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.Em -K ,
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.Em -F ,
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.Em -C ,
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or
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.Em -W ,
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then this supplies the answer to the question "What kind of character ... ?".
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.Pp
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The
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.Fl s
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option will print out the list of your scores. It may be followed by arguments
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.Fl X
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where X is one of the letters C, F, K, S, T, W to print the scores of
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Cavemen, Fighters, Knights, Speleologists, Tourists or Wizards.
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It may also be followed by one or more player names to print the scores of the
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players mentioned.
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.Sh AUTHORS
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Jay Fenlason (+ Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome and Jon Payne) wrote the
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original hack, very much like rogue (but full of bugs).
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.br
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Andries Brouwer continuously deformed their sources into the current
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version - in fact an entirely different game.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width 24n -compact
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.It Pa hack
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The hack program.
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.It Pa data, rumors
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Data files used by hack.
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.It Pa help, hh
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Help data files.
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.It Pa record
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The list of topscorers.
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.It Pa save
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A subdirectory containing the saved games.
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.It Pa bones_dd
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Descriptions of the ghost and belongings of a deceased adventurer.
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.It Pa xlock.dd
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Description of a dungeon level.
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.It Pa safelock
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Lock file for xlock.
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.It Pa record_lock
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Lock file for record.
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.El
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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.Bl -tag -width 24n -compact
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.It Ev USER No or Ev LOGNAME
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Your login name.
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.It Ev HOME
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Your home directory.
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.It Ev SHELL
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Your shell.
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.It Ev TERM
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The type of your terminal.
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.It Ev HACKPAGER, PAGER
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Pager used instead of default pager.
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.It Ev MAIL
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Mailbox file.
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.It Ev MAILREADER
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Reader used instead of default (probably /usr/bin/mail).
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.It Ev HACKDIR
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Playground.
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.It Ev HACKOPTIONS
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String predefining several hack options (see help file).
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.El
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.Pp
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Several other environment variables are used in debugging (wizard) mode,
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like
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.Ev GENOCIDED ,
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.Ev INVENT ,
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.Ev MAGIC
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and
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.Ev SHOPTYPE .
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.Sh BUGS
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Probably infinite.
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Mail complaints to mcvax!aeb .
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