SASTEROIDS(6)

NAME
sasteroids - Asteroids game for VGA displays

SYNOPSIS
sasteroids

DESCRIPTION
Sasteroids is an asteroids-like game. The object is to shoot asteroids and the occasional enemy space ship, while piloting a ship to avoid obstacles. Points are obtained for each asteroid or enemy ship destroyed.

COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS

-classic
    Enables classic gameplay mode. While not completely the same as the original sasteroids, all of the new features are turned off. This means no weapon recharge, no powerups, and no green asteroids.

-fullscreen
    Enables fullscreen play.

REQUIREMENTS
This game requires SDL, as well as the true type font addon to SDL.

PORTABILITY
The program is written in C++ and SDL. It has been ported to several different enviroments.

BUGS/LIMITATIONS
Too many to list here.

AUTHOR
This revision of SDL Sasteroids is by Andrew M. The author of sasteroids is Brad pitzel (pitzel@cs.sfu.ca). Sasteroids is loosely based on xasteroids written by Phil Goetz (goetz@cs.buffalo.EDU). This man page was written by Jeff Tranter (Jeff_Tranter@Mitel.COM), with a few hacks by Brad Pitzel.