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[1mNAME
     [0mbattlestar - a tropical adventure game

[1mSYNOPSIS
     battlestar [0m[ [1m-r (recover a saved game) [0m]

[1mDESCRIPTION
     [0m_B_a_t_t_l_e_s_t_a_r is an adventure game in the classic style.  How-
     ever, It's slightly less of a puzzle and more a game of
     exploration.  There are a few magical words in the game, but
     on the whole, simple English should suffice to make one's
     desires understandable to the parser.

[1mTHE SETTING
     [0mIn the days before the darkness came, when battlestars ruled
     the heavens...

	       Three He made and gave them to His daughters,
	       Beautiful nymphs, the goddesses of the waters.
	       One to bring good luck and simple feats of wonder,
	       Two to wash the lands and churn the waves asunder,
	       Three to rule the world and purge the skies with thunder.


     In those times great wizards were known and their powers
     were beyond belief.  They could take any object from thin
     air, and, uttering the word `su' could disappear.

     In those times men were known for their lust of gold and
     desire to wear fine weapons.  Swords and coats of mail were
     fashioned that could withstand a laser blast.

     But when the darkness fell, the rightful reigns were top-
     pled.  Swords and helms and heads of state went rolling
     across the grass.	The entire fleet of battlestars was
     reduced to a single ship.

[1mSAMPLE COMMANDS
	  [0mtake ---  take an object
	  drop ---  drop an object

	  wear ---  wear an object you are holding
	  draw ---  carry an object you are wearing

	  puton     ---  take an object and wear it
	  take off --	 draw an object and drop it

	  throw  <object> <direction>

	  !    <shell esc>





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[1mIMPLIED OBJECTS
	  [0m>-: take watermelon
	  watermelon:
	  Taken.
	  >-: eat
	  watermelon:
	  Eaten.
	  >-: take knife and sword and apple, drop all
	  knife:
	  Taken.
	  broadsword:
	  Taken.
	  apple:
	  Taken.
	  knife:
	  Dropped.
	  broadsword:
	  Dropped.
	  apple:
	  Dropped.
	  >-: get
	  knife:
	  Taken.


     Notice that the "shadow" of the next word stays around if
     you want to take advantage of it.	That is, saying "take
     knife" and then "drop" will drop the knife you just took.

[1mSCORE & INVEN
     [0mThe two commands "score" and "inven" will print out your
     current status in the game.

[1mSAVING A GAME
     [0mThe command "save" will save your game in a file called
     "Bstar."  You can recover a saved game by using the "-r"
     option when you start up the game.

[1mDIRECTIONS
     [0mThe compass directions N, S, E, and W can be used if you
     have a compass.  If you don't have a compass, you'll have to
     say R, L, A, or B, which stand for Right, Left, Ahead, and
     Back.  Directions printed in room descriptions are always
     printed in R, L, A, & B relative directions.

[1mHISTORY
     [0mI wrote Battlestar in 1979 in order to experiment with the
     niceties of the C Language.  Most interesting things that
     happen in the game are hardwired into the code, so don't
     send me any hate mail about it!  Instead, enjoy art for
     art's sake!




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[1mAUTHOR
     [0mDavid Riggle

[1mINSPIRATION & ASSISTANCE
     [0mChris Guthrie
     Peter Da Silva
     Kevin Brown
     Edward Wang
     Ken Arnold & Company

[1mBUGS
     [0mCountless.  One of the attractions of the game is attempting
     to avoid termination with the message [1mSegmentation Fault
     (core dumped)[0m. People who do not wish it to be obvious what
     they are doing should remember to remove the core files.

[1mFAN MAIL
     [0mSend to edward%ucbarpa@Berkeley.arpa,
     chris%ucbcory@berkeley.arpa, riggle.pa@xerox.arpa.




































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