1 2xmemory(1) xmemory(1) 3 4 5NAME 6 xmemory - game of memory for several players 7 8SYNOPSIS 9 xmemory <options> 10 11DESCRIPTION 12 XMemory is a multi player memory game. It is played simul- 13 taenously on several X Displays, which have to be listed 14 on the command-line. To run properly, the access to the 15 selected X Displays must be allowed. This can be achieved 16 in the usual manner by running xhost on the desired dis- 17 plays. 18 19 20RULES 21 Like in the traditional memory game, the players have to 22 find similar tiles on the table to get the tiles. The main 23 change in this version is, that the players play simultae- 24 nously and therefor the whole game gets some kind of an 25 action game. 26 27 Opening a tile leads to a lock of the tile for about 3 28 seconds when opening the first tile. 1 second after open- 29 ing the second tile, both tiles flip back and therefor are 30 accessable again for all other players. (In synchronous 31 mode the 1st tile remains opened until the second tile is 32 selected) 33 34 Winner is the player who collected the most matching 35 tiles. 36 37 38OPTIONS 39 Tile Selection 40 -pictures The tiles are switched from the default Smi- 41 leys to the default set of picture tiles. Use 42 -help to check, if there are any picture pack- 43 ages installed on your system. 44 45 -file name Use the picture file name for creating the 46 tiles 47 48 -letter The tiles are switched from the default Smi- 49 leys to a normal letter mode. 50 51 52 Game Selection 53 -small small amount of tiles 54 55 -normal normal amount of tiles (default) 56 57 -big large amount of tiles 58 59 -remain leave tiles on screen after match. Tiles will 60 only remain on the screen of the player who 61 found the match. 62 63 -sync play the traditional game where only one 64 player can select at a time. 65 66 -tile <w>x<h> 67 set number of tiles explicitly, which over- 68 rides the other size selection options. The 69 total amount of tiles has to be even. 70 71 -lock <n> locks the size of picture images to n perecent 72 of the original size. This might be usefull 73 for better results, since the images are 74 stored in an pre-dithered format and are 75 scaled in the most primitive way, so that 76 there might be undesired effects, when scaling 77 to odd amounts. 78 79 80 Fonts 81 -font name Override the default pattern '-adobe-courier- 82 bold-r-normal-*' to search for a different set 83 of fonts in letter or smiley game. The program 84 tries to use scalable fonts on the displays, 85 when bitmap fonts in the necessary size can't 86 be found. If the fonts don't look pretty, 87 check out if the fontserver fs (or xfs) is 88 running on the display. 89 90 91 Player Selection 92 <display> Each name of a display (containing a colon) 93 activates a player on that screen. The total 94 amount of players is internally limited to 10. 95 96 <display>/<color> 97 A display name can be extended by a color 98 specification. Otherwise, a default color is 99 selected for that player. 100 101 -color<n> <name> 102 The color for player n can be set explicitly 103 to name even so previous option is the easier 104 way to achive this. 105 106 107EXAMPLE 108 xmemory -big / barcley:0.0/ genesis:0.0/green 109 110 111SEE ALSO 112 xhost(1) xfs(1) X(1) 113 114 115COPYRIGHT 116 Copyright 1993,1995,1996, Helmut Hoenig, Heiligenhaus 117 118 email (for any comments): 119 Helmut.Hoenig@hub.de 120 121 smail (for gifts): 122 Helmut Hoenig 123 Hopfenstrasse 8a 124 65520 Bad Camberg 125 GERMANY 126 127 ******************************************************** 128 129 By the way, I am collecting banknotes! If you want 130 to join into my collection, get any bill of your 131 country, sign it on the backside and send it to me 132 so I will pin it on my world map. 133 (Don't forget the exact location for the pin :-) 134 But you can also just send me a picture postcard ... 135 136 ******************************************************** 137 138 Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this soft- 139 ware for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, 140 provided that the above copyright notice appear in all 141 copies. 142 143 144 145 other fancy things from the author 146 xcol (1990) - color selector for editing text-files 147 flying (94/95) - pool billard simulation 148 xdefmap (1995) - enhanced tool for setting up standard colormaps 149 xjig (1996) - jigsaw puzzle with texture mapped animations 150 151 available at ftp.x.org and its mirrors 152 153