XGALAXY(6)

📦 version 2.0.34, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💫 XGALAXY 💫

okay bestie, so this is xgalaxy — a Galaga-ish game for X11, and it lives in section 6 of the games manual. it's giving retro arcade but make it Unix. let's go 💖

✨ NAME ✨

xgalaxy — an X11 game in the style of Galaga 🚀👾

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

xgalaxy [-scores] [-display display] [-mouse] [-keyboard] [-nosound]
[-b] [-window] [-winsize widthxheight] [-b] [-noclipmask] [-nouseor]
[-nostars]

xgalaxy-hyperspace [-scores] [-display display] [-mouse] [-keyboard]
[-nosound] [-b] [-window] [-winsize widthxheight] [-b] [-noclipmask]
[-nouseor] [-nostars]
yes there are two -bs in there. no, i did not do that. that's just how it is. we respect the source material 💅

🎀 INSTRUCTIONS 🎀

ngl it's literally just like Galaxian / Galaga. you already know how to play Galaxian / Galaga. stop bothering me. 😭 (okay but fr fr: your ship follows the mouse, and the button fires. hold it down for auto-fire, so nobody can come for me and accuse me of breaking their mouse! 🐭✨)

the xgalaxy-hyperspace version is the ✨deluxe✨ one — it features some new weapons and different gameplay. main character energy, honestly.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -scores — prints out the high score file and then dips. exits immediately.
  • -display host:dpy — set your display, you know the drill.
  • -mouse — use mouse control (same as pressing m).
  • -keyboard — use keyboard control (same as pressing k). and listen — if you have a joystick, you can use it too, as long as you select keyboard control. multitasking queen 👑
  • -nosound — turn sound OFF.
  • -level lvl — choose your starting level, must be >= 1.
  • -window — run in a window instead of full screen. note that full screen is the default.
  • -winsize widthxheight — set the windowsize. default is 468x596.
  • -b — turn buffered mode off. use this if it's running too slowly. ⚠️ will cause flicker — maybe lots, maybe only a little. no cap.
  • -noclipmask — don't use clip masks for drawing (affects unbuffered mode only).
  • -nouseor — don't draw using OR mode.
  • -nostars — don't draw stars in the background.

so here's the tea 🫖: you can combine those last four options to get faster drawing if your video card can't keep up with the required 30 frames/sec. and the fastest drawing will come from:

xgalaxy -b -noclipmask -nouseor -nostars

slay. speed. periodt. 🔥

⌨️ KEYBOARD COMMANDS ⌨️

  • p — pauses ⏸️
  • q — end this game
  • b — toggle buffering (it's the flicker vs. speed tradeoff, iykyk)
  • o — toggle OR mode. 💀 don't use this, it sucks.
  • m — use mouse control. heads up: you can switch mid-game, iconic behavior honestly.
  • k — use keyboard control
  • x — use your shields (xgalaxy-hyperspace only) 🛡️
  • alt-enter — toggle full screen node.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Joe Rumsey, <joe@rumsey.org> (Original author) 💜
  • Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> (man page)

send bugs (or their reports, or fixes) here: <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/> 🐛🫶

okay and one last thing before you go — this whole vibe check is 2.0.34, dated 23 April 2003. yeah. it's an elder. and we love her for it. bye bestie, go shoot some aliens 🚀💖✨

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