ORM

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NAME

orm - a simple snake game

SYNOPSIS

From the shell: orm
From Workbench: double-click on the icon

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.

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.

The game adjusts itself to give a decent aspect ratio on screens of different resolutions.

REQUIREMENTS

Orm requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher.

FILES

(PROGDIR:|LOCALE:)catalogs/#?/orm.catalog

TRIVIA

The word Orm means worm or snake in Danish.

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.

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.

To honour Michael's decision, this version is also in the public domain; let's keep it that way!

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.

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.

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 13:26:46 GMT, January 11, 2023