NAME

       is - Ironseed

SYNOPSIS

       is [options]

DESCRIPTION

       The Ironseed is a 2D inter-galactic adventure game.  Gameplay is real-time, featuring trading, diplomacy,
       and strategy, and somewhat resembles Star Control 2 / Ur-Quan masters.

STORY

       It  is  the  thirty-eighth  century.  The  fall  of  Earth is but a legend and humanity has migrated to a
       terraformed Mars. The Pentateuch, a group of five priests, rules the newly risen technocracy with an iron
       fist.  In a bold attempt to eliminate the last of their political opponents, the five began the purgation
       trials. With guerilla tactics their followers went about convicting those who would oppose them.

       To counter them an underground movement was initiated and an elaborate plan was conceived.  A  virus  was
       spread  throughout  the circuit matrix. A thousand days from inception, the virus was scheduled to delete
       all personality files. The Ironseed movement as it was called, hoped that by stealing a ship  they  could
       escape,  leaving  behind  Mars  -  and  the  Pentateuch. Their intent was to return after the fall of the
       technocracy, but a computer malfunction turned a thousand days into a thousand years.

       As the captain, you are awakened along with the crew by an alien attack...

EXTRA SDL IN-GAME KEYS

              ALT-F11 will change windowed/fullscreen

              Scroll-Lock - press and hold for time speedup

OPTIONS

       Valid command line options:

       /done  Skip the intro on game startup.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       The following environment variables are supported:

       NOSOUND=1
              Stops game from trying to initializing audio.

       DEBUG=1
              Shows game initialization info.

       SDL_QUALITY=nearest|linear|best
              Changes how SDL extrapolates original 320x200 resolution to your screen resolution

AUTHOR

       The Ironseed is SDL port of 1994 DOS game by Channel  7.   See  /usr/share/doc/ironseed/copyright  for  a
       complete list of authors.

SEE ALSO

       Game manual /usr/share/doc/ironseed/ironseed-manual.txt.gz

                                                   2024-04-11                                        IRONSEED(6)