GEMDROPX(6)

📦 version 0.9, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💎 GEMDROPX 💎

okay so bestie, welcome to gemdropx(6) — the Games Manual page, and yes it's a whole manual page for a whole game, we're doing this. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

gemdropx — an interesting one-player puzzle game for X-Window. that's it, that's the vibe. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

gemdropx [--help] [--version] [--usage] [--nomusic]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, real talk: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. instead, it has documentation in /usr/share/doc/gemdropx/README.txt.gz 📚 (yes it's gzipped, yes you'll survive, zless is your bestie).

gemdropx is an interesting one-player puzzle game for X-Window. it's a direct port of Gem Drop, an Atari 8-bit game written in Action! — which, iykyk, is a very fast C- and Pascal-like compiled language for the Atari. ✨ and the concept of Gem Drop is based on an arcade game for the NeoGeo system called "Magical Drop III" by SNK. iconic lineage honestly 👑

if you're familiar with games like Jewels, Klax, Bust-A-Move or Tetris, this game is similar to them all. but the man page itself says it considers it closest to Klax. that's the official word, no cap. 🧚

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --help — shows a quick help page. your little "what do i do" moment 🫶
  • --version — shows the version of the program.
  • --usage — shows the command line arguments which gemdropx accepts.
  • --nomusic — disables the music of the game (only if sound was enabled during compile time, so heads up).
  • --nosound — disables all sound, music included. full silence mode, no thoughts head empty 💀

✨ CONTROLS ✨

  • Left/Right — move left/right
  • K/L — move left/right
  • Up/Down — throw/grab
  • A/Z — throw/grab
  • Return — get more gems immediately
  • Space / P — pause
  • S — toggle sound
  • Q/Escape — abort game

✨ MOUSE ✨

  • Click Left/Right of Man — move left/right
  • Left-click Above Man — grab
  • Right-click Above man — throw

✨ JOYSTICK ✨

  • Left/Right — move left/right
  • Button 1/2 — throw/grab
  • Button 3/4 — get more gems immediately

✨ AUTHOR ✨

this manual page was written by Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system — but like, it may be used by others too. sharing is caring 🫶

🌈 that's the whole page bestie, go forth and drop some gems, you're gonna ate 💅

December 29, 1999 🎀 that's the date this little page was born, and it's living under the GEMDROPX(6) banner in the Games Manual section. slay, stay sparkly, and remember: closest to Klax. ✨💖👑

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