term% cat index.txt GAMES(1) General Commands Manual GAMES(1)
NAME
4s, 5s, ana, mandel, plumb, smiley, life, fsim, clock, catclock, fire‐
works, swar, festoon - time wasters
SYNOPSIS
games/4s
games/5s
games/ana [ fixwords ]
games/mandel
games/plumb [ level ]
games/smiley
games/life startfile
games/fsim
games/clock
games/catclock [ -c ]
games/fireworks
games/swar
games/festoon [ -p ] [ -e ] [ -t ] [ -sseed ] [ len ] [ pfn ]
DESCRIPTION
There are a few games in /bin/games:
4s, 5s Try to fill complete rows using 4-square or 5-square tiles.
Move tiles left or right by moving the mouse. Rotate tiles
with buttons 1 and 3. Drop tiles for more points with but‐
ton 2 or the space bar.
ana Find anagrams for words typed on standard input. Anagrams
can contain several dictionary words. The fixwords argument
or numbers typed on standard input fix the number of words
in the output anagrams.
mandel Compute and display Mandelbrot sets. Menus on the mouse
buttons control various things.
plumb Build a plumbing system. Keep ahead of the advancing oil and
don't waste pipe. The level argument lets you start at a
harder level.
smiley A game of historical importance. Type space to shoot, comma
to move left, and period to go right.
life Play the game of life, given an initial position. There is
a library of interesting initial positions; the library is
consulted if startfile cannot be found.
fsim Pretend you're flying a Cessna.
clock, catclock
Display analog clocks. Option -c makes catclock crosseyed.
fireworks Hoist the fiery blue peter.
swar Space war for two players called MCI and SPRINT. One player
types a or d to turn left or right, s to shoot, x to enter
hyperspace, and w to accelerate. The other player uses ;,
l, . and o. AT&T scores whenever either ship shoots itself
or otherwise causes mayhem. Hyperspace is occasionally fa‐
tal.
festoon Traditional radical monoarchate qualitativeness. Now pro‐
duces pictures (-p), tables (-t), and equations (-e). The
seed can be set to recreate a specific document. Len is
sentence length, and pfn is percent faked nouns (default 0).
FILES
/sys/games/lib/4scores
scores of 4s games
/sys/games/lib/5scores
scores of 5s games
/sys/games/lib/plumb/scores
scores of plumb games
/sys/games/lib/anawords
used by ana
/sys/games/lib/plumb/*
miscellaneous files used by plumb
/sys/games/lib/life/*
interesting starting positions
SOURCE
/sys/src/games
GAMES(1)