AIRSTRIKE(6)

💖 AIRSTRIKE — okay bestie, buckle UP 💖

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So. We are gathered here today to talk about airstrike, a lil section-6 (that's GAMES, babes) manual page, and honestly? It ate. 🛩️✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

airstrike — it's a 2d dogfight game, living in the tradition of 'Biplanes' and 'BIP'. That's the whole name section. Short, sweet, iconic. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: Airstrike is a 2d biplane dogfight game, and it is carrying on the legacy of the Intellivision and Amiga games 'Biplanes' and 'BIP'. Not a remake, not a knockoff — a tradition, bestie. 💅

And the way it flexes? It's got a robust physics engine 🔥 plus several other extensions of the original games. So it's the originals but leveled up. Main character energy, fr fr.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

airstrike [options]

That's it. That's the summoning spell. 🪄

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Okay so here's the tea: Airstrike reads all of its configuration options from a configuration file when it starts up. But — plot twist — you can override a few of the options from the command line. Just a few. Not all of them. Manage your expectations, bestie. 🙈

• --fullscreen — runs the game in fullscreen mode. Immersion unlocked. 🌈
• --sound — runs the game with sound effects, if support for that has been compiled in. Big "if" there, so check before you get your hopes all the way up. 🎧
• --nosound — runs the game without sound. Silence. Peace. Just you and the propeller. 💀
• --noalpha — the game graphics will not be antialiased. Which makes it run faster. Trade the pretty for the speedy. 🏎️
• --alpha — the game graphics will be antialiased. Pretty mode: engaged. 💖
• --config CONFIGFILE — use the given configuration file instead of the one whose location is compiled into Airstrike. You're the boss now. 👑

And for the record: the configuration file name is .airstrikerc and it lives in your home directory. That's the default babe's address. 🏠

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🕹️ CONTROLS 🕹️

Airstrike is controlled from keyboard. Keys only, no controller nonsense. Let's go key by key because every single one matters:

• RIGHT — plane nose goes up. ⬆️
• LEFT — plane nose goes down. ⬇️
• COMMA — accelerate. Vroom. 🔥
• DOT — shoot. 🔫
• SPACE — drop a bomb. 💣
• ESC — pause the game and open the game options menu. And from that menu you can change options, view release notes, and quit it. Multitasking queen. ✨

Pro tip from your girl: RIGHT is up and LEFT is down. Yes, really. Yes, it's a little unhinged. No, I don't make the rules. 🙈

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📜 LICENSE 📜

This is free software — you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms specified in the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPL). Share the love, respect the license. 🫶

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💀 WARRANTY 💀

None.

That's the whole section. None. Nada. Zero. Nothing. Not even a crumb of warranty. 😭

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👑 COPYRIGHT AND CREDITS 👑

Give it up for the legends, because this game did not build itself:

• Ulf Ekström — game author, programming and graphics 🎨
• Peter Eismann — Windows port, comments and ideas 🪟
• Eero Tamminen — sound, graphics, game objects, makefiles, comments and ideas 🔊
• Alessandro Giusti — graphics and ideas 🖌️
• And many others for comments, bug reports and ideas. 💜

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And that's the page, bestie! This was the airstrike manpage from Airstrike Version 1.0, hanging out in section 6 of the manual. Fly safe, spam that DOT key, and remember: no warranty, but all the vibes. 🛩️💖✨