GALAXIS(6)

okay so bestie, welcome to GALAXIS(6) — the manual page for a tiny space-rescue situation, and honestly it’s giving main-character energy 🚀💖

✨ NAME ✨

galaxis — rescue lifeboats lost in interstellar space

🛰️ SYNOPSIS 🛰️

galaxis

🌌 DESCRIPTION 🌌

So picture it: lifeboats from a crippled interstellar liner are adrift in a starfield, and they need you. fr fr. You can place probes, and those probes look in all eight compass directions and tell you how many lifeboats they see. If you drop a probe directly on a lifeboat, it will be revealed immediately. Your whole objective: find the lifeboats as quickly as possible — before the stranded passengers run out of oxygen! 😭

This version is a UNIX-hosted, curses-based clone of the nifty little Macintosh freeware game Galaxis. It doesn’t have the super-simple, point-and-click interface of the original, but it compensates by automating away some of the game’s simpler deductions. Slay 💅

The game screen includes a description of all commands, including ? for detailed help. iykyk 🫶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

The Macintosh game was designed and written by Christian Franz cfranz@iiic.ethz.ch. This version was cloned by Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com. See ESR’s home page at http://www.catb.org/~esr/ for updates and other resources. iconic behavior, honestly 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

This really ought to be an X game, but that would have been too much like work. 💀😭

xoxo 💖 source/version: GALAXIS(6) · date: 1980-01-01 — now go save those lifeboats, bestie 🫶