VEGASTRIKE(1)

NAME
Vega Strike Celeste- Trade, Fight and Explore the Universe

SYNOPSIS
vsinstall

vslauncher

vegastrike [-ddata_dir] [-px,y,z] [-jsector/starsystem] missionname

The recommended way to run Vega Strike is to first run vsinstall to configure your system, then invoke the vslauncher executable and begin a New Game.

DESCRIPTION
vsinstall program sets up the default save game, copies the vegastrike.config file to a user's ~/.vegastrike directory and runs vssetup from the proper directory.

vslauncher program allows the user to select a mission to run, then executes vegastrike When a user has selected a save game to use via the New Game or Load Game buttons. A user may autorecover an autosave file by clicking on the Recover Auto Save button, and selecting the save game to recover to, which will launch vegastrike and recover the save game. Save games must be saved at a base or planet.

vegastrike program begins Vega Strike with the selected XML mission file (full path necessary) and the save game appearing as the only text in ~/.vegastrike/save.txt

REQUIREMENTS AND INSTALLATION
run the vsinstall program to set up your specific config options, then invoke vslauncher

Read the readme.txt file in
/usr/local/share/doc/vegastrike or in color at
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/player_tutorial/ to learn the keybindings and walk through a tutorial.
More information can be obtained from the Vega Strike website at http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/

OPTIONS

-d/my/data/dir
    specifies /my/data/dir as the path for finding the vega strike data. Default is /usr/local/share/vegastrike/data

-p1024,2405,1245090101
    Forces the player's starting location to be at x= 1024, y= 2405, z=1245090101

-jgemini_sector/troy
    Forces the player to start in the troy system in gemini sector.

missionname
    Specifies a mission for vegastrike to run. Default is /usr/local/share/vegastrike/data/mission/exploration/explore_universe.mission.

CONFIGURATION FILE
Vega Strike expects a configuration file ( $HOME/.vegastrike/vegastrike.config (~/.vegastrike/vegastrike.config) ), which is modified by vsinstall
A simple illustration of how to adjust vegastrike.config and the associated keybindings and options is in the readme.txt included in the documentation and also in the player tutorial listed above.

AUTHORS
vegastrike is available thanks to the work of many developers. For a listing of the authors, please see the file http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/credits.html in the top-level directory of the source distribution.

COPYRIGHT
vegastrike can be distributed under the terms of the X11 license. A copy of the license is in the file LICENSE in the top-level directory of the source distribution.

BUGS

Bug reports and successes may be posted to vegastrike-users@lists.sourceforge.net If you want to post a bug report, please tell us which mission you ran, copy the last few lines of stdout and stderr, and describe the bug in detail, and what lead up to it. It would be most helpful if you included a stack trace by compiling running vegastrike from the source distro.

For problems and suggestions with this manpage, please send a note to Daniel Horn <hellcatv@hotmail.com>.

AVAILABILITY
The most recent public version of vegastrike can be obtained from http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/

The latest snapshot of the code may be obtained via CVS. For information on how to do this, please see http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=19507

Vega Strike Celestia, the vegastrike development headquarters, is at http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/. This website contains a great deal of information about vegastrike.

The vegastrike mailing list is vegastrike-users@lists.sourceforge.net It is used for discussion of various vegastrike end user aspects/help.

For further information about vegastrike development, you might want to subscribe to the vegastrike "vegastrike-devel", "vegastrike-user" mailing lists at http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=19507

FILES
/usr/local/bin/vegastrike
    The vegastrike engine.
/usr/local/bin/vsinstall
    The Setup utility.
/usr/local/bin/vslauncher
    The vegastrike save game and mission selection utility
/usr/local/bin/vssetup
    Internal installer program
/usr/local/share/vegastrike
    The vegastrike data files
/usr/local/lib/man/man1
    Directory containg this file
~/.vegastrike/vegastrike.config
    User-specific configuration file
~/.vegastrike
    Directory containing user specific data managed by vegastrike.

SEE ALSO
http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/player_tutorial /usr/local/share/doc/vegastrike