alephone(6)

🌸 NAME 🌸

bestie, meet alephone(6) — it lives in the Games manual section, and it's literally the manual page for the alephone command: game engine based on Marathon 2. Iconic. ✨

🚀 SYNOPSIS 🚀

okay so the whole vibe is:

alephone [ options ] [ directory ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Aleph One is the open-source descendant of Bungie's Marathon 2 first-person 3D shooting game. It runs Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and 3rd-party content on a wide variety of platforms, with (optional) OpenGL rendering, Internet play, Lua scripting, and more. It's giving legendary engine energy, no cap — and this is the alephone manual, so let's get into the flags. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — show a summary of options. Your lil cheat sheet, bestie. 🫶
• -v, --version — show the version of the program. Now you know what build you're running. ⭐
• -d, --debug — allow saving of core files after crashes. Crash receipts: permitted. 💀
• -f, --fullscreen — run the game fullscreen. Main character energy, filling the whole screen. 👑
• -w, --windowed — run the game in a window. Cozy windowed vibe, highkey valid. 🎀
• -g, --nogl — do not use OpenGL. No OpenGL, no problem. 🚫
• -s, --nosound — do not access the sound card. It will not touch the sound card, periodt. 🔇
• -m, --nogamma — disable gamma table effects (menu fades). The menu fades are off. 🌈
• -j, --nojoystick — do not initialize joysticks. Joysticks stay uninitialized. 🕹️
• directory — the directory containing the data files of a scenario (map file, scripts, etc.). Point it at your scenario data. 📁

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• ALEPHONE_DATA — directories that are searched for data files. This is a colon-separated list. Entries later in the list have precedence over entries earlier in the list. So order matters, bestie — later entries win. 🏆

🎀 FILES 🎀

• ~/.alephone — the Aleph One personalization directory. alephone stores preferences, game recordings, saved games, and screen shots there. If ALEPHONE_DATA is not set, alephone searches this directory for data files after searching the directory given as its argument. So yes, it's the personalization spot and the fallback data search spot. 🍓

💀 BUGS 💀

bestie, heads up: if ALEPHONE_DATA is set, the directory argument is ignored. Not a drill. The env var takes over. 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

the latest news regarding engine and scenario development can be found at the project web site ⟨http://source.bungie.org/⟩. Go look, iykyk. 🔥

💌 signed off by source.bungie.org on 2010-12-07, for the alephone(6) manual — bye bestie, mwah 💋🫶