NAME¶
xracer - A racing game in the style of Psygnosis' WipeOut
SYNOPSIS¶
xracer [
-h |
--help ] [
-V |
--version ] [
-v |
--verbose ] [ [
-s |
--size ] WIDTHxHEIGHT ]
[ [
-p |
--position ] LEFTxTOP ] [
-f |
--fullscreen ] [ [
-j |
--joystick ] DEVICE ] [
-L
|
--nomipmap ]
DESCRIPTION¶
xracer is a 3D arcade game in the style of the Psygnosis game WipeOut.
You have to fly around the track without crashing, shooting opposing craft
where necessary, and arriving in first place.
xracer requires a supported 3D hardware accelerator card and OpenGL or a
compatible library such as Brian Paul's Mesa.
OPTIONS¶
- -h, --help
- Display the options and exit.
- -V, --version
- Print the current version number and exit.
- -v, --verbose
- Print verbose messages to stdout about the progress of the game.
This can be a useful aid to debugging.
- -s, --size WIDTHxHEIGHT
- Set the initial screen size.
- -p, --position LEFTxTOP
- Set the position for the initial window placement.
- -f, --fullscreen
- This option puts the game into full screen mode. In this mode, the game
takes over the screen and keyboard.
- -j, --joystick DEVICE
- Set joystick device name.
- -L, --nomipmap
- Disable mipmapping.
FILES¶
/usr/share/games/xracer
BUGS¶
The fullscreen option is currently broken on 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2
accelerator cards. Set the MESA_FX_GLX environment to get fullscreen on those
boards.
AUTHOR¶
Maintainer: Richard W. M. Jones <rich@annexia.org>. Please see the AUTHORS
file for a full list of people who have contributed to the game.
SEE ALSO¶
rain(6)
VERSION¶
This manual page documents xracer version 0.96.9.
COPYRIGHT¶
XRacer is copyright (C) 1999-2000 Richard W. M. Jones and the other authors who
have contributed to the game.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple
Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
WEBSITE¶
http://xracer.annexia.org/
