GALAXIS(6)

NAME
galaxis - rescue lifeboats lost in interstellar space

SYNOPSIS

galaxis

DESCRIPTION

Lifeboats from a crippled interstellar liner are adrift in a starfield. To find them, you can place probes that look in all eight compass directions and tell you how many lifeboats they see. If you drop a probe directly on a lifeboat it will be revealed immediately. Your objective: find the lifeboats as quickly as possible, before the stranded passengers run out of oxygen!

This is a UNIX-hosted, curses-based clone of the nifty little Macintosh freeware game Galaxis. It doesn’t have the super-simple, point-and-click interface of the original, but compensates by automating away some of the game’s simpler deductions.

The game screen includes a description of all commands, including "?" for detailed help.

AUTHORS

The Macintosh game was designed and written by Christian Franz This version was cloned by Eric S. Raymond See ESR’s home page at for updates and other resources.

BUGS

This really ought to be an X game, but that would have been too much like work.