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.TH ROBOTS 6 "2 November 1984"
.SH NAME
robots \- a game of logic
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B /usr/games/robots [-s]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Robots
is a display-based game which must be played on a CRT terminal
from among those supported by vi(1).
The object of the game is to avoid the robots:
causing them to collide with each other, creating a
.IR scrap\ heap .
Robots are also destroyed if they run into a
.IR scrap\ heap .
.PP
You are represented on the screen by an I.
The robots are represented by `=' and `#' signs.
Scrap heaps are represented by `@' signs.
After each move, all robots move one step towards you except for
the `#' robots which move at twice the speed of normal robots.
.PP
The following commands are recognized:
.IP h
Move left.
.IP l
Move right.
.IP j
Move down.
.IP k
Move up.
.IP y
Move up and left.
.IP u
Move up and right.
.IP b
Move down and left.
.IP n
Move down and right.
.IP .
.IP w
Do nothing.
.IP t
Teleport to a safe square if possible (limited in number).
.IP r
Teleport to a random position.
.IP a
Antimatter, all robots one square away from you vanish.
.IP s
.IP W
Sit and watch.
.IP d
Display dots.
.IP m
Print list of `safe' moves.
.IP ?
Same as above.
.IP q
Quit game.
.IP ^R
Redraw the screen.
.IP ^Z
Suspend the game, on systems which support it.
.IP ^W
Sit and watch while safe to do so.
.PP
A command may be preceeded by a count where relevant.
.I Shift\-direction
moves as far as possible in that direction.
.I Control\-direction
moves until adjacent to something.
.PP
A record is kept of the personal best scores of each player:
one for the current week and one for all time.
Scores are printed out at the end of the game.
The scores can be printed out with the '\-s' parameter.
.SH CONFIGURATION
If you have in your environment the variable
.I ROBOTOPTS
then this is examined for a comma separated list of options to be set.
Binary options can be preceeded with `no' to reverse the meaning.
Valid options are
.IP name=string
Set your name to the given string, this is recorded in the high
score table. Your name appears as `string (username)'.
.IP moveheaps
Make the scrap heaps movable. If heaps are movable, then
a scrap heap can be pushed in any direction provided there is nothing
behind the heap. This may or may not be the default.
.IP showhscores
This option shows the highscore table after every game. The
negated version will only print out the highscore only if you appear
on it.
.SH NOTE
The first time the `t' command is used on a new level
you are guaranteed not to land next to a robot, a count of
these `safe' teleports is maintained in the bottom left hand corner.
`Antimatters' use up a `safe' teleport.
.br
An asterisk in the first set of scores indicates an out-of-date entry.
.br
The value of each robot in the next round is inversely
proportional to the
number of scrap heaps created in the previous round.
Double speed robots count 1.5 times the value of normal robots.
.SH FILES
.nf
/usr/games/lib/robots_tmp	this week's best scores
/usr/games/lib/robots_hof	all time best scores
.fi
.SH AUTHOR
Allan Black, Strathclyde University, Glasgow.
.br
Enhancements by Graeme Lunt & Julian Onions, Nottingham University.