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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 Ekstrom
	      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.

Airstrike							    Version 1.0 						      AIRSTRIKE(6)