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- .TH ORM 6 "Amiga Games" "October 21, 1993"
- .nj
- .SH NAME
- orm - a simple snake game
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .nf
- From the shell: orm
- From Workbench: double-click on the icon
- .fi
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- Orm is played on a 40*40 matrix which fills a window on the default
- public screen (usually the Workbench). You are the grey dot (assuming
- the default colours) in the centre - to increase in length (the object
- of the game) you must eat frogs (the white dots) while avoiding bricks
- (the blue dots). Frogs come and go randomly, but there are always
- four of them at any moment. One in ten disappearing frogs is replaced
- by a brick. If you hit yourself, a side wall or a brick you die; once
- your length is greater than one you cannot reverse your direction.
- .sp 1
- Movement is with the cursor keys; once a game has started you cannot
- stop moving.
- Press a cursor key to start each game.
- Other keys are SPACEBAR to pause (any key to unpause) and ESC to quit.
- .sp 1
- The game adjusts itself to give a decent aspect ratio on screens of
- different resolutions.
- .SH REQUIREMENTS
- Orm requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher.
- .SH FILES
- (PROGDIR:|LOCALE:)catalogs/#?/orm.catalog
- .SH TRIVIA
- The word Orm means worm or snake in Danish.
- .SH AUTHORS
- The original game, called Snake, was written and put in the public
- domain by Michael Warner, who also the original version of this manual
- page.
- .sp 1
- This improved version was written by Torsten Poulin, who, as you may
- have guessed already, is a Dane, which explains why the grammar of
- this docomentation may be slightly odd.
- .sp 1
- To honour Michael's decision, this version is also in the public
- domain; let's keep it that way!
- .SH BUGS
- Adjustment to the screen mode should be better.
- The window is a bit too tall on NTSC screens, and looks really awful
- on VGA-ExtraLoRes screens.
- .sp 1
- The situation where the user has specified a system default
- font, that makes the dragbar so tall that the window won't fit the
- screen, isn't handled gracefully.
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