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Opens the Asteroids WWW page in a WWW browser specified by the BROWSER environment variable.
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Sensitivity of the ship controls. Higher values make the controls more sensitive. A typical value is 0.7.
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Maximum speed at which the ship may travel. Higher values allow the ship to travel faster. A typical value is 16.
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Ship inertia. A value of 1.0 means the ship will continue moving forever, while lower values make the ship slow down more quickly. A typical value is 0.98.
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Indestructability period for new ships. A typical value is 50.
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Number of ships at the beginning of the game. When all the player's ships are destroyed, the game is over.
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Speed at which missiles travel. If this value is set too high the missiles might skip right over their target, so it's best to keep this value below 10. A typical value is 8.
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Period of time until a missile that does not hit a target is destroyed. A typical value is 20.
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Minimum period of time between firing two missiles. This prevents the player from firing missiles too fast. A typical value is 4. Set this value higher for a more difficult game.
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Maximum number of asteroids that may be on the screen at one time. Default value is 4. Lower values make the game much more difficult.
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Asteroid speed. Higher values allow asteroids move faster and make for a more difficult game. A typical value is 3.
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Number of new smaller asteroids created when an asteroid is destroyed. Typically 2 or 3. Beware of using higher values as the game quickly becomes unplayable.
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Enables asteroids to rotate slowly during the game. Turning this option off may improve the speed of the game on slow machines.
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Enables game animation to continue when a game is not in progress.
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Enables sounds during the game.
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Configures sensitivity to mouse movements used to rotate the ship during the game. Higher values make the ship rotate more quickly.
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A delay in milliseconds between individual frames in the game. On faster machines where the game runs too quickly a value of about 50 here can make the game more playable.
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Enables mouse control of the game.
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Enables control of the game with the shift, control and alternate keys.
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Enables the current settings and closes the window.
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Enables the current settings.
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Cancels the current settings (reverting to previous settings) and closes the window.
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Fills the window with default settings.