vt100-games/HDimage/u0/BS.DOC

BATTLESHIPS


CP/M port of the Unix game.

Copyright: * bs.c - original author: Bruce Holloway * salvo option by:
Chuck A DeGaul * with improved user interface, autoconfiguration and
code cleanup * by Eric S. Raymond esr@snark.thyrsus.com * v1.2 with
color support and minor portability fixes, November 1990 * v2.0
featuring strict ANSI/POSIX conformance, November 1993. * v2.1 for
Linux, October 1994. * Slipstreamed in fixes to make it gcc -Wall clean,
May ’95. * fairly seriously hacked for Hitech C and CP/M, rjm 95/8/14

I found it as part of the ZCN repository:
https://github.com/jamesots/zcn

The C source has been modified for VT100 compatibility and some minor
changes have been made by me (Anna Christina Naß acn@acn.wtf.

bs.com is the compiled binary.

See the *.txt files for more information.


Modes

-   -b selects a “blitz” variant
-   -s selects a “salvo” variant
-   -c permits ships to be placed adjacently

The “blitz” variant allows a side to shoot for as long as it continues
to score hits.

The “salvo” game allows a player one shot per turn for each of his/her
ships still afloat. This puts a premium scoring hits early and knocking
out some ships and also makes much harder the situation where you face a
superior force with only your PT-boat.


Keys

To position your ships: move the cursor to a spot, then type the first
letter of a ship (using CAPITAL letters) type to select it, then type a
direction ([hjkl] or [4862]), indicating how the ship should be pointed.
You may also type a ship letter followed by
r' to position it randomly, or typeR’ to place all remaining ships
randomly.

Navigation and aiming keys:

    yz k u    7 8 9
      \|/      \|/
     h-+-l    4-+-6
      /|\      /|\
     b j n    1 2 3

  Key     Action                     Key         Action
  ------- -------------------------- ----------- --------------------------
  h / 4   move left                  y / z / 7   move up+left
  l / 6   move right                 b / 1       move down+left
  j / 2   move down                  u / 9       move up+right
  k / 8   move up                    n / 3       move down+right
  r       place this ship randomly   R           place all ships randomly
  ^L      screen redraw              Q           quit game


Compiling

HiTech C has been used to compile it, but it needs a lot of free memory
(TPA).

For compiling, I used the command c bs.c in CP/M.