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NAME

       airstrike - 2d dogfight game in the tradition of ’Biplanes’ and ’BIP’

DESCRIPTION

       Airstrike  is  a  2d  biplane  dogfight  game  in  the tradition of the
       Intellivision and Amiga games  ’Biplanes’  and  ’BIP’.  It  features  a
       robust  physics  engine  and  several  other extensions of the original
       games.

SYNOPSIS

       airstrike [options]

OPTIONS

       Airstrike reads all the configuration options from a configuration file
       at startup but you can override from command line a few of the options:

       --fullscreen
              Runs the game in fullscreen mode.

       --sound
              Runs game with sound effects,  if  support  for  that  has  been
              compiled in.

       --nosound
              Runs the game without sound.

       --noalpha
              Game graphics will not be antialiased. This makes it run faster.

       --alpha
              Game graphics will be antialiased.

       --config CONFIGFILE
              Use given configuration file instead of the one  which  location
              is compiled into Airstrike.

       Configuration file name is ’.airstrikerc’ and it’s located in your home
       directory.

CONTROLS

       Airstrike is controlled from keyboard:

       RIGHT  Plane nose goes up.

       LEFT   Plane nose goes down.

       COMMA  Accelerate.

       DOT    Shoot.

       SPACE  Drop a bomb.

       ESC    Pause game and open game options menu. From menu you can  change
              options, view release notes and quit it.

LICENCE

       This  is  free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
       the terms specified in the GNU Public Licence (GPL).

WARRANTY

       None.

COPYRIGHT AND CREDITS

       Ulf Ekström
              Game author, programming and graphics

       Peter Eismann
              Windows port, comments and ideas

       Eero Tamminen
              Sound, graphics, game objects, makefiles, comments and ideas

       Alessandro Giusti
              Graphics and ideas

       And many others for comments, bug reports and ideas.