AMOEBA(1)

🦋 AMOEBA(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

Okay so bestie, amoeba is a manual page for a fast-paced, polished OpenGL demo made by the group Excess, and it is literally a whole vibe 🔥💖 It's a cross-platform demo that shows off effects with your 3D card, all perfectly in sync with Ogg Vorbis music. It has a full XML-scripted GPLed demo engine, a bunch of object manipulations, tons of gorgeous graphics, and a pumping soundtrack by Satcom101. Iconic. 💅

Amoeba won first prize in the demo competition at Underscore 02, a sceneparty held in Jönköping, Sweden (http://www.underscore.sh/). Main character energy, no cap 👑🌈

✨ NAME ✨

amoeba — Fast-paced, polished OpenGL demonstration by Excess 🧚

💜 SYNOPSIS 💜

amoeba [options]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

Amoeba is a fast-paced, cross-platform OpenGL demonstration by Excess, showing effects using your 3D card in perfect sync with Ogg Vorbis music. It features a full XML-scripted GPLed demo engine, several object manipulations, lots of graphics and a pumping soundtrack by Satcom101. 🎶

Amoeba won first prize in the demo competition at Underscore 02, a sceneparty held in Jönköping, Sweden (http://www.underscore.sh/). Periodt 🌸

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

Okay so if you start amoeba without any command line options, it'll try to launch a GTK+-based configuration interface, but only if GTK+ is installed on your system 🫶. If it isn't, it just starts up with default parameters: 640x480, 32bpp, fullscreen with sound. ✨

All options start with a single dash (-). Here's the summary 💖 Heads up: if you give conflicting options, the last one wins 👑

• -fullscreen — Runs in full screen. This is the default. 🖥️
• -windowed — Runs in a window. Ngl, resizing the window may cause problems, and it's not fully supported. 😭
• -640x480, -800x600, -1024x768, -1280x960, -1280x1024, -1400x1050, -1600x1200 — Runs at the specified resolution (if you're in full-screen mode), or opens a window of that size (if you're in windowed mode). The default is 640x480. 🦋
• -16, -32 — Runs at the specified bit depth. 32bpp looks better and is usually faster on modern cards, but not all cards can handle 16bpp. Also, 16bpp may cause problems on many cards that don't support stencil visuals with 16bpp. The default is 32bpp. 🌈
• -z16, -z24, -z32 — Runs with a Z-buffer of the specified bit depth. Higher bit depths usually look slightly better, but many cards only support 16bpp, and there might be a performance penalty. The default is 16bpp. 💅
• -nosound — Doesn't play sound. By default it plays sound, unless no sound card can be detected. 🔇

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

/usr/share/doc/amoeba/readme.txt

💖 AUTHOR 💖

Amoeba was made by the group Excess. This manual page was written by Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> (aka Sesse/Excess) for the Debian GNU/Linux project (but anyone else is welcome to use it) 🫶

Individual credits, because everyone deserves flowers 🌷

• gloom <bent@gathering.org> — design, music, graphics 🎨
• Sesse <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> — code 💻
• neuromancer <neuromancerskulls@poczta.onet.pl> — graphics 🖼️
• kusma <eflund@online.no> — graphics, code ✨
• Tick <tick@psychoproject.net> — 3D modelling 🧊
• Satcom101 <mattias@satcom101.com> — music 🎧

Bestie, that's the whole manual, and it's giving AMOEBA(1) energy all the way down 🌈💖✨