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.TH "THINKSABER" "1" "2008/07/09" "Games " "Games "
.SH NAME

Thinksaber
\- Turn your Lenovo Thinkpad into a Jedi weapon! 
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.SH SYNOPSIS

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thinksaber
[\fB\-s\fP\fI directory\fP]
[\fB\-v\fP\fI volume\fP]
[\fB\-h\fP]
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.SH DESCRIPTION

Thinksaber
uses the accelerometer on a standard late\-model IBM 
and Lenovo Thinkpads (T40s and up) to detect motion and simulate the 
sound effects of a Jedi Lightsaber. 
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.SH OPTIONS

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.TP
\fB\-p\fP\fI path\fP
 Specify path to soundfiles if not 
installed in the default location. 
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\fB\-s\fP\fI swing\fP
 Specify the threshold to cause a \&'swing\&' sound 
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\fB\-t\fP\fI strike\fP
 Specify the threshold to cause a \&'strike\&' sound 
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\fB\-h\fP\fI hit\fP
 Specify the threshold to cause a \&'hit\&' sound 
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\fB\-u\fP
 Show help text. 
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\fB\-v\fP
 Show version information. 
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.SH REQUIREMENTS

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.TP
An IBM or Lenovo Thinkpad with HDAPS 
thinksaber
only 
runs on laptops with accelerometers, which get their values through 
the HDAPS joystick emulator. 
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.TP
PyGame 
thinksaber
uses the PyGame library 
(www.pygame.org), which in turn has dependencies on the Simple 
Direct Layer gaming library as well as Python. Most Linux 
distributions either come with this stock or provide it through the 
installation tool. Pygame is a dependency of a number of popular 
Linux games, so if you have any games on your system it\&'s entirely 
likely this has already been done for you. 
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.TP
Make 
If you want to install the system with the distributed 
Makefile,
you need GNU\-make\&.
If you don\&'t have it, you 
should execute the steps shown in the Makefile
manually. 
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.SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Thinksaber
is obviously inspired by the program MacSaber, and I\&'m 
grateful to the MacSaber people for assembling the Star Wars sound 
effects collection needed to make it so successful. 
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Thinksaber
uses a motion\-detection algorithm derived from the 
one written by Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (miyagawa at gmail.com) for his own 
thinkpad\-saber
program, which ran only under Perl for Windows. 
Obviously, I think mine\&'s better. 
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.SH CHANGES

Please check the file \fBCHANGES\fP
for the list of changes. 
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.SH VERSION

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Version: 0.2 of 2008/07/09\&.
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.SH LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

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.TP
Copyright 
(C)2008, Elf M. Sternberg, 
\fBElf.Sternberg@gmail.com\fP
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License 
This program can be redistributed and/or modified under 
the terms of the GNU Public License, version 2. You should have 
found a copy of this licence with this distribution in the file 
COPYING\&.
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.SH AUTHOR

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Elf M. Sternberg 
Email: \fBElf.Sternberg@gmail.com\fP
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WWW: \fBhttp://www.elfsternberg.com\fP\&.
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