XGALAGA++(6x)

💖 XGALAGA++ 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual for XGalaga++, a lil game in section 6x of the manual pages 🎀 (yes, 6x is the X11 games section, iykyk). it's a whole vibe, let's get into it 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

XGalaga++ — X11 classic vertical scrolling shoot'em up 🌈

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🎯 SYNOPSIS 🎯

xgalaga++

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no drama, just launch it and go 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

XGalaga++ is a classic vertical scrolling shoot'em up: fire at aliens, collect bonuses and survive as long as you can. 🛸✨

literally that's the entire game loop and honestly? iconic. you shoot, you grab bonuses, you try not to die. main character energy fr fr.

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🎮 KEYBOARD COMMANDS 🎮

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 — resize the window, bestie. 1 gives you 640x480, 2 gives you 800x600, 3 gives you 1024x768, 4 gives you 1280x1024, and 5 gives you 1600x1200. pick your fighter 🫶
• h — toggle the high scores and the menu. on and off, on and off, no cap 💀
• p — pause. take a breather, hydrate, you deserve it 💧
• q — end the game, or quit XGalaga++ (from the menu). bye bestie 👋
• s — start game. go go go 🔥
• space — fire. obviously. pew pew ✨
• left/right arrow — move the vessel left/right. scoot scoot 🧚
• up/down arrow — scroll the high scores up/down. yes you can admire your own scores, you earned it 👑
• -/+ — decrease/increase details (this uses a bit less CPU and memory). lowkey a nice little performance knob when your laptop is struggling 😭
• r — increment the video refresh rate by 5 Hz, in the range 50 - 120 Hz. bump it up, bump it up 📈

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🌟 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌟

• XGAL_PSEUDO — player pseudonym, used for high scores. so like, this is your name on the leaderboard, choose wisely 💜

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• xgalaga(6)

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🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

• Marc Mongenet, <marc@mongenet.ch>
• Joe Rumsey, <joe@rumsey.org> (Original xgalaga author)
• Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> (Original xgalaga man page)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this version of the page is dated 10-DEC-2017, and it lives under XGalaga++(6x) — go forth and shoot some aliens, periodt 🎀✨🦋