bs - battleships game
bs [-b | -s] [-c]
This program allows you to play the familiar Battleships
game against the
computer on a 10x10 board. The interface is visual and
largely self-explanatory;
you place your ships and pick your shots by moving the cursor
around the `sea' with the rogue(6) / hack(6) motion keys
hjklyubn.
Note that when selecting a ship to place, you must type the
capital letter
(these are, after all, capital ships). During ship
placement, the
`r' command may be used to ignore the current position and
randomly place
your currently selected ship. The `R' command will place
all remaining
ships randomly. The ^L command (form feed, ASCII 12) will
force a screen
redraw.
The command-line arguments control game modes:
-b Selects a `blitz' variant. This allows a side to
shoot for as
long as it continues to score hits.
-c Permits ships to be placed adjacently. Normally,
ships must be
separated by at least one square of open water. This
disables
that check and allows them to close-pack.
-s Selects a `salvo' variant. This allows a player one
shot per turn
for each of his/her ships still afloat. This puts a
premium on
scoring hits early and knocking out some ships and
also makes it
much harder, for example, when you face a superior
force with only
your PT-boat.
Originally written by one Bruce Holloway in 1986. Salvo
mode added by
Chuck A. DeGaul (cbosgd!cad). Visual user interface,
`closepack' option,
code rewrite and manual page by Eric S. Raymond
<[email protected]rsus.com>
August 1989.
The algorithm the computer uses once it has found a ship to
sink is provably
optimal. The dispersion criterion for the random-fire
algorithm may
not be.
OpenBSD 3.6 August 4, 1997
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