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.TH OOLITE 6 "April 9th, 2006"
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.SH NAME
Oolite \- a space-sim game
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B oolite
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B Oolite.
.PP
\fBOolite\fP is a port of the space-sim game Oolite to the GNUStep/OpenGL linux platform.
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.SH FAQ
.PP
.B What is the purpose of the game?
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To fly from planet to planet, buying and selling goods, shooting pirates or committing acts
of piracy. There's no goal other than perhaps to achieve the rank of
.B ELITE.
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.PP
.B I'm still confused, how do I play?
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Have a look at Ian Bell's Flight Training Manual for the original BBC Elite,
some of Oolite's control keys are different from the original, so be sure to
read it alongside the Oolite PLAYING.TXT file.
.PP
.TP
.B What do the various colors represent on the radar?
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\(bu White - unpowered items that can't mass-lock the in-system drive.
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\(bu Green/Yellow - navigation buoys.
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\(bu Yellow - powered craft.
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\(bu Red - powered craft identified as hostile.
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\(bu Green - space stations.
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\(bu Green/Red - thargoids
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\(bu Purple - police
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\(bu Blue/Red - police on intercept
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\(bu Red/Yellow - active mine (about to detonate)
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.SH AUTHOR
Oolite was written by Giles Williams and other, and it was ported to the GNU/Linux operating
system by the
.URL "http://oolite-linux.berlios.de/" "Oolite Linux" " project."
The original version can be found at
.URL http://oolite.aegidian.org/ "the Oolite home page" "."
.PP
This manual page was written by Eddy Petrisor <eddy.petrisor@gmail.com>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).