ATANKS(6)

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💥 ATANKS — the atanks manual page, section 6 💥

okay so bestie, you've found it: atanks, also known as Atomic Tanks. it's a game. it's chaos. it's giving "who let the tanks have nukes". let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

atanks — obliterate each other with oversize weapons 🚀💀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

atanks [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Atomic Tanks is a multi-player game where the whole entire goal is to destroy the other tanks while also protecting your own 🫶. like, that's it, that's the vibe.

you earn money for destroying other tanks 💸 — and with that money you can buy upgrades and better weapons for your tank. capitalism but make it explosive. iconic behavior honestly.

this game is similar to Scorched Earth or the Worms series of games. so if you know those, you already know the energy. iykyk ✨

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -v, --verbose — display extra information while running 👀 like it's telling you the tea about what it's doing
  • -h — display a brief message showing which options can be used 🥰 your lil cheat sheet
  • -fs — run Atomic Tanks in full screen mode 🖥️✨ main character energy, take up the WHOLE screen
  • --windowed — run Atomic Tanks in a window (this is the default) 🪟 no cap, this is what happens if you don't say anything
  • -d, --depth 16|32 — set th the color depth to either 16 or 32 bits 🎨 (yes the original says "th", we keep the lore)
  • -w, --width width — set the window width (default is 800) 📏
  • --height height — set the window height (default is 600) 📐
🌸 heads up bestie: if you don't pass -fs, --windowed is what you get. the defaults are 800 wide and 600 tall, and -d only wants 16 or 32 — anything else is not it.

✨ AUTHOR ✨

Atomic Tanks was written by Tom Hudson <tom@singular.org.uk> 💖

this manual page was written by Graham Wilson <graham@debian.org> for the Debian project, but may be used by others. so generous. we love a shareable resource 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil doc is from the atanks pages, dated 17 April 2004, sitting pretty in section 6 of the manual — ATANKS(6), periodt 💅✨ go blow up some tanks 🎀

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