BOSWARS(6)

💖 BOSWARS — the games manual, but make it cute 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to BOSWARS(6) — yes that's the games manual section, section 6, we're in the games club now 🎮✨. This is boswars, and it is a futuristic real-time strategy game. Like, actual RTS. Base building, units, the whole vibe. no cap. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

boswars — futuristic real-time strategy game 🌸👑

like. that's it. that's the name. futuristic. real-time. strategy. iconic behaviour fr fr 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

boswars [OPTIONS]

you run boswars, you optionally hand it some OPTIONS, and the future happens. periodt. 🫶

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

every single flag, bestie, no skips, no summarising, we respect the manual in this house 💜

• -c file.lua — this is your configuration start file. the default is stratagus.lua, so if you don't say anything it's gonna go grab that one 🍓
• -d datapath — path to the stratagus data. tell it where the goods live 📁
• -e — Start editor. yes queen, you're building the levels now ✏️👑
• -h — Help shows this page. hi, that's this one, you're reading it, we've come full circle 😭
• -l — Disable command log. if you don't want the receipts, this is your girl 🙈
• -P port — Network port to use. pick your door 🔌
• -n server — Network server host preset. preset the server host, lowkey convenient ✨
• -L lag — Network lag in # frames. the default is 10 = 333ms 🐢💀
• -U update — Network update rate in # frames. the default is 5=6x per s ⚡
• -N name — Name of the player. this is you. your main character name. choose wisely 👑💫
• -s sleep — Number of frames for the AI to sleep before it starts. let the robot nap, she's earned it 😴🤖
• -v mode — Video mode. here are your options, literally all of them:
  • 0=default
  • 1=640x480
  • 2=800x600
  • 3=1024x768
  • 4=1280x960
  • 5=1600x1200

pick your resolution, pick your destiny 🖥️🌈

• -D — Video mode depth = pixel per point (for Win32/TNT). yes it's that specific, it says so right there 🫡
• -F — Full screen video mode. all the screen. no edges. immersive 🖼️🔥
• -S — Sync speed (100 = 30 frames/s). math is math, bestie 🧮
• -W — Windowed video mode. for the multitaskers, the alt-tab girlies 🪟💖

🌸 and one thing about the map, because this matters: the map is relative to StratagusLibPath=datapath, and if you want it relative to the current working directory instead, you use ./map. okay? okay. noted. 💅

🦋 AUTHOR 🦋

boswars was written by the Bos Wars and Stratagus Project. absolute legends, we love them, no notes 🫶✨

This manual page was written by Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@enst-bretagne.fr>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). so sweet of them to say it can be used by others, sharing is caring fr fr 💖

okay that's the whole page bestie, you're fully informed, you're unstoppable, go play some futuristic real-time strategy 🌟🎀

this was the boswars page from the Games Manual, dated August 12, 2007 — yeah it's vintage, and vintage is iconic, periodt 💅👑