QUAKESPASM(1)

💖 QUAKESPASM(1) 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because today we're talking about quakespasm — an engine for iD software's Quake, straight out of the General Commands Manual. yes it's a real Unix man page, yes it's from 2012, yes it still eats. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

quakespasm — an engine for iD software's Quake 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

quakespasm [options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So this manual page documents, briefly, the quakespasm command. Brief is the vibe here, we're not writing a novel.

Quakespasm is a *Nix friendly Quake Engine based on the SDL port of the popular FitzQuake. It's giving glow-up: it includes some new features, some important fixes, and it's aiming for portability and 64 bit correctness. no cap, it really said "I contain multitudes." 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

This program follows the Quake convention, with long options starting with a single dash (-). yes, a single dash, don't come at it with your GNU double-dash energy, that's not the lore here. A summary of options is included below — all of them, we're not skipping a single one. 🫶

• -basedir directory — Specify the location of the game data files. tell it where the goods live.
• -bgsound — Continue to play sound when the game window is backgrounded. yes, the music keeps going even when you tab away. main character behavior fr. 🎵
• -bpp integer — Specify the colour depth used for the video mode.
• -cd — Use CD audio.
• -cddev device — Specify the CD device to be used for CD audio.
• -condebug — Write a log file containing debugging information. for when you need receipts. 📝
• -consize integer — Specify the size of the console buffer in kilobytes.
• -current — Start the game in the current video mode for OpenGL.
• -dedicated — Start the game in a dedicated server mode.
• -dinput — Enable DirectInput mode for input devices in the game. [Not used.] like, it's there, but it's not used. ghost option. 💀
• -f, -fullscreen — Use a full screen video mode.
• -fitz — Fitz mode: disable Quakespasm customizations, act like vanilla Fitzquake. the "no thoughts, just Fitz" setting.
• -force — Force the switch to the video mode specified by other command line arguments. it's not asking, it's telling. 🔥
• -fullsbar — Enable the refreshing of the full status bar.
• -game name — Start the game using the files from a mission pack or a mod.
• -heapsize integer — Start the game and allocate the specified number of kilobytes of memory for the game.
• -height pixels — Specify the vertical resolution to use for the game screen.
• -hipnotic — Start the game with the Hipnotic mission pack.
• -ip ip-address — Start the game and specify an alternative IP address to be used by the game.
• -ipxport port — The port number to be used by the server for the IPX network protocol.
• -listen integer — Specify the maximum number of players that can connect to the listen server.
• -minmemory — Allocate as little memory as possible while remaining functional. frugal queen. 💸
• -noadd — Disable the use of the OpenGL additive texture environment extension.
• -noadjustaspect — Disable automatic adjustment of the video mode aspect ratio.
• -nocdaudio — Disable CD music audio.
• -nocombine — Disable the use of the OpenGL texture combining extension.
• -noipx — Disable game support for the IPX/SPX network protocol.
• -nolan — Disable support for all network protocols. LAN? never heard of her. 🙈
• -nomouse — Disable support for the mouse.
• -nomtex — Disable the use of the OpenGL multitexture extension.
• -nosound — Disable support for sound hardware.
• -noudp — Disable support for the UDP network protocol.
• -particles integer — Specify the maximum number of particles to be rendered on the screen at once.
• -port port — Specify port for both IPX and UDP network protocols.
• -quoth — Use extensions from the Quoth mod.
• -rogue — Start the game with the Rogue mission pack.
• -sndspeed sample-rate — Specify the sampling rate used for sound, default is 11025. that's the default, remember it, it's literally the only number in this whole list with a default so it's kind of iconic. ⭐
• -udpport port — Specify the UDP port number that the game should use for network play.
• -w, -window — Start the game in a windowed OpenGL video mode.
• -width pixels — The horizontal resolution to use for the game screen.
• -zone kb — Specify the amount of memory in kilobytes to allocate to holding dynamic information such as aliases.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Quakespasm was written by Kristian Duske and John Fitzgibbons. legends, honestly.

This manual page was written by David Banks <amoebae@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). shoutout Debian, you ate. 🫶

🎀 bye bestie 🎀

that's the whole page, you're now officially Quakespasm literate, go forth and -window responsibly. this was QUAKESPASM(1) from the General Commands Manual, dated 2012-03-27 — so yes, it's a vintage, and yes, vintage is a vibe. mwah. 💖✨🌸🦋💅