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- bs - battleships game
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- battle [ -b | -s ] [ -c ]
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- This program allows you to play the familiar Battleships
- game against the computer on a 10x10 board. The interface is
- visual and largely self-explanatory; you place your ships
- and pick your shots by moving the cursor around the `sea'
- with the rogue/hack motion keys hjklyubn.
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- Note that when selecting a ship to place, you must type the
- capital letter (these are, after all, capital ships). During
- ship placement, the `r' command may be used to ignore the
- current position and randomly place your currently selected
- ship. The `R' command will place all remaining ships
- randomly. The ^L command (form feed, ASCII 12) will force a
- screen redraw).
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- The command-line arguments control game modes.
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- -b selects a `blitz' variant
- -s selects a `salvo' variant
- -c permits ships to be placed adjacently
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- The `blitz' variant allows a side to shoot for as long as it
- continues to score hits.
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- The `salvo' game allows a player one shot per turn for each
- of his/her ships still afloat. This puts a premium scoring
- hits early and knocking out some ships and also makes much
- harder the situation where you face a superior force with
- only your PT-boat.
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- Normally, ships must be separated by at least one square of
- open water. The -c option disables this check and allows
- them to close-pack.
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- The algorithm the computer uses once it has found a ship to
- sink is provably optimal. The dispersion criterion for the
- random-fire algorithm may not be.
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- Originally written by one Bruce Holloway in 1986. Salvo mode
- added by Chuck A. DeGaul (cbosgd!cad). Visual user
- interface, `closepack' option, code rewrite and manual page
- by Eric S. Raymond (eric@snark.uu.net) August 1989.
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- Page 1 (printed 7/3/94)
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