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 NADAR(1)                                                           NADAR(1)
                                 March 2001



 NAME
      nadar - A client of a network tank battle game N.A.D.A.R. for X.


 SYNOPSIS
      nadar [ options ]


 DESCRIPTION
      This is a client of N.A.D.A.R. for X.  N.A.D.A.R. is a network tank
      battle game. You get into a tank, operate it, and destroy other tanks
      to survive!


 OPTIONS
      You can use standard X Toolkit options.


      -display [displayname]

              This option specifies the name of the X server to use.


      -geometry [+X+Y]

              This option specifies the placement of the window on the
              screen.


      -name [name]

              This option specifies the name of the application.


      -bg, -background [color]

              This option specifies the color of background.


      -h, -help

              Show help messages.


      -s, -server [server's hostname]

              This option specifies the hostname of the N.A.D.A.R.'s server.


      -p, -player [player's name]




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              This option specifies the name of the player.


      -size [display size]

              This option specifies the size of the game screen by percent.
              Default value is 60.


      -port    This option specifies the port number of socket. Default port
              number is 12010.


      -direct-draw

              Fast draw mode. Character pixmaps are copied to the game
              window directly.  But, characters are flickering in this mode.
              This mode is unavailable in peephole game mode.


      -no-direct-draw

              No flickering mode. Character pixmaps are copied to the pixmap
              temporarily and the pixmap is copied to the game window. This
              mode is default.


 START GAME
      1. N.A.D.A.R. is a client-server model program. You should start the
      server program before playing.  Run

      % nadars

      on the server machine.

      2. Run some client programs as

      % nadar -s [Server's hostname] -p

      on the some client machines.

      3. If playing speed is very slow, Run clients with size option.

      % nadar -s [Server's hostname] -p

      4. If the performance of client machine is very high, try big size.

      % nadar -s [Server's hostname] -p






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 EXAMPLE
      You want to run the server program on "nasu". And you want to play
      N.A.D.A.R. on "tomato", "ninjin" and "daikon".

      nasu> nadars

      tomato> nadar -s ninjin -p Tanaka
      ninjin> nadar -s ninjin -p Hashimoto
      daikon> nadar -s ninjin -p Shida


 PLAY
      N.A.D.A.R. is a client-server model program.  Start a server program
      before clients start.  See nadars(1) about server.
      Operate your tank and destroy other tanks. You have canon and
      missiles.  Canon is limitless, but you have only 3 missiles.


 KEY OPERATION
      Up or i  Go forward.


      Down or k

              Go backward.


      Left or j

              Turn left.


      Right or l

              Turn right.


      x or Left-Alt

              Fire the canon.


      z or Left-Shift

              Fire the missile.


      s or Escape

              Destroy.




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 NADAR(1)                                                           NADAR(1)
                                 March 2001



      q        Quit.


 SEE ALSO
      X(1), nadars(1)


 AUTHOR
      Programed by Sakai Hiroaki.
      E-Mail : sakai@seki.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp, hsakai@pfu.co.jp,
      hsakai@m8.people.or.jp
      http://www.seki.ee.kagu.sut.ac.jp/~sakai/myfreesoft/index.html


 SPECIAL THANKS
      Tanaka Makoto for drawing some pictures, test on FreeBSD, and many
      advices.
      Hashimoto Jun for test on Linux and many advices.
      Sakai Takeyasu for some advices.
      Ooue Shigeo for some advices.
      Miyauchi-Seki Lab.'s people for many advices.
      Koga Kazuhiro for test on Linux and some advices.


 COPYRIGHT
      N.A.D.A.R. Copyright (c) 2000-2001 Sakai Hiroaki.
      All Rights Reserved.
      N.A.D.A.R. is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
      under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

























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