home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
-
-
- 1mHACK(6) UNIX Programmer's Manual HACK(6)0m
-
-
-
- 1mNAME0m
- hack - Exploring The Dungeons of Doom
-
- 1mSYNOPSIS0m
- /usr/games/hack [ -d 4mdirectory0m ] [ -n ] [ -u 4mplayername0m ]
-
- 1mDESCRIPTION0m
- 4mHack0m is a display oriented dungeons & dragons - like game.
- Both display and command structure resemble rogue. (For a
- game with the same structure but entirely different display
- - a real cave instead of dull rectangles - try Quest.)
-
- To get started you really only need to know two commands.
- The command ? will give you a list of the available commands
- and the command / will identify the things you see on the
- screen.
-
- To win the game (as opposed to merely playing to beat other
- people high scores) you must locate the Amulet of Yendor
- which is somewhere below the 20th level of the dungeon and
- get it out.
-
- When the game ends, either by your death, when you quit, or
- if you escape from the caves, 4mhack0m will give you (a fragment
- of) the list of top scorers. The scoring is based on many
- aspects of your behaviour but a rough estimate is obtained
- by taking the amount of gold you've found in the cave plus
- four times your (real) experience. Precious stones may be
- worth a lot of gold when brought to the exit. There is a
- 10% penalty for getting yourself killed.
-
- The administration of the game is kept in the directory
- specified with the -d option, or, if no such option is
- given, in the directory specified by the environment vari-
- able 1mHACKDIR,0m or, if no such variable exists, in the current
- directory. This same directory contains several auxiliary
- files such as lockfiles and the list of topscorers and a
- subdirectory 4msave0m where games are saved.
-
- The -n option suppresses printing of the news.
-
- The -u 4mplayername0m option supplies the answer to the question
- "Who are you?". When 4mplayername0m has as suffix one of -T -S
- -K -F -C -W then this supplies the answer to the question
- "What kind of character ... ?".
-
- 1mAUTHORS0m
- Jay Fenlason (+ Kenny Woodland, Mike Thome and Jon Payne)
- wrote the original hack, very much like rogue (but full of bugs).
- Andries Brouwer continuously deformed their sources into the
- current version - in fact an entirely different game.
- John Toebes ported this version to the Amiga.
-
-
-
- 1mPrinted 02/23/86 23 February 1986 10m
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 1mHACK(6) UNIX Programmer's Manual HACK(6)0m
-
-
-
-
-
- 1mFILES0m
- hack The hack program
- data, help, rumors Data files used by hack.
- record The list of topscorers.
- Saved Games A subdirectory containing the saved games.
- bones_dd Descriptions of the ghost and
- belongings of a deceased adventurer.
-
- 1mBUGS0m
- Probably infinite. Mail complaints to:
- John A. Toebes, VIII
- 120 H Northington Place
- Cary, NC 27511
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- 1mPrinted 02/23/86 23 February 1986 10m
-