xbat(6)
NAME
xbat - A Xevious-like classic arcade game
SYNOPSIS
xbat - [options]
DESCRIPTION
- Xbat is a fast moving action game for X11. Xbat closely
- resembles the classic arcade game Xevious. While navigating his
- Solvalou, the player must survive waves of enemy airships, occa
- sionally meeting up with a "boss-ship" at the end of a level.
OPTIONS
- -h | -help
- Print usage summary
- -dc Use default colormap
- -g Auto fire
- -hs High speed mode
- -r Exchange [x] and [z] keys
- -mode [0-4]
- Set game level 0:easy, 1:normal, 2:difficult,
- 3:more difficult, 4:abnormal
- -wait [0-10]
- Set wait 0:no wait - 10:slowest
GAMEPLAY
- The aim of the game is to penetrate deep into occupied
- territory and defeat any enemy troops that are encountered on the
- way.
- Flying a spacecraft onto the enemy base, the player must
- withstand waves of airborne attack vessels. From the ground, en
- emy bases fire missiles at the spacecraft.
- Enemy airships can be fired at with air-to-air missiles.
- Ground targets can be engaged using laser guided bombs.
- When an enemy base-ship appears, it can only be destroyed
- by carefully dropping a bomb into one of its exposed exhaust
- vents.
- When the player's spacecraft is hit by another flying ob
- ject or a missile, the ship is destroyed. If any ships are still
- left, the game is continued at about the same place on the map.
- At the start of the game, the player is equipped with an
- initial number of spacecrafts. When all of these have been de
- stroyed, the game is over. By exceeding certain score levels,
- extra ships can be earned during gameplay.
CONTROLS
- Game controls
- [s] Start or pause [q],[Esc] Quit [c] Setup (at ti
- tle screen only)
- Movement controls
- Cursor keys, number keys or [i][j][k][l][m]
- Movement keys are assigned as follows:
- [Left],[j],[4] Move ship to the left
- [Right],[l],[6] Move ship to the right
- [Up],[i],[8] Move ship forward
- [Down],[k],[m],[5],[2] Move ship backward
- Firing controls
- [Ctrl],[z] Drop a bomb
- [Space],[x] Fire missile
SEE ALSO
- The novel Fardraut Saga written by Masanobu Endoh (unknown
- edition) - if you can find it.
- Noriaki Ozawa's Xevious Homepage at:
- http://www.nemoto.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/~ozawa/xevious/xevious-e.html
BUGS
No sound support.
- Someone reported problems getting multiple simultaneous
- keypresses recognized.
- Please report all bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System
- (see: http://www.debian.org/Bugs)
AUTHORS
Masanobu Endo conceived Xevious (C) 1983 Namco.
Yuuji Waizumi <wai@nemoto.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp> wrote xbat.
- Joost Kooij <joost@debian.org> packaged xbat for Debian
- and wrote this manpage. Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org> adopted the
- package and updated this manpage.
31 May 2003