DOPEWARS(6)

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version 1.6.2 · 4 versions
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💊 DOPEWARS 💊

okay bestie, buckle up, because this is the dopewars(6) page from the Games Manual and it's literally about being a drug dealer in New York, no cap 🗽💸

✨ NAME ✨

dopewars — the drug dealing game 🤑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

dopewars [OPTIONS] ...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. dopewars is a drug dealing game built on ncurses and GTK, set in New York, and you're the drug dealer whose whole personality is striving to become filthy rich. main character energy fr 💅

it supports network play and single-player games, so you can hustle solo or drag your friends into it 🫶

🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

here are the valid commandline options, bestie. all of them. every single one. we don't skip. periodt 👑

  • -b, --no-color, --no-colour — "black and white", meaning do not use pretty colours 😭 (tragic, i know, but some people want the aesthetic)
  • -n, --single-player — do not connect to any available dopewars servers 🙈
  • -a, --antique — antique dopewars; stick as close as possible to the functionality of the original version 🏺✨
  • -f, --scorefile=FILE — specify a file to use as the high score table (it defaults to /var/games/dopewars.sco) 📊
  • -o, --hostname=ADDR — specify a multiplayer hostname 🌐
  • -s, --public-server — run in server mode. (note: see the -A option for configuring a server once it's running.) 🖥️
  • -S, --private-server — run as a "private" server (do not report to the metaserver) 🤫
  • -p, --port=PORT — specify the network port to use 🔌
  • -g, --config-file=FILE — specify the pathname of a dopewars configuration file 📁
  • -r, --pidfile=FILE — specify the pathname of a PID file to maintain while running as a server 📝
  • -l, --logfile=FILE — write log messages to the given file (rather than standard output) 🪵
  • -A, --admin — connect to a server running on localhost, for administration 🛠️
  • -c, --ai-player — create and run a computer player 🤖
  • -w, --windowed-client — force the use of a graphical client (GTK+ or Win32) 🪟
  • -t, --text-client — force the use of a text-mode (curses) client (by default, a windowed client is used when possible) ⌨️
  • -P, --player=NAME — sets the default player name 🏷️
  • -C, --convert=FILE — convert a high score file used by dopewars-1.5.1 or earlier to the format used by more recent versions 🔄
  • -h, --help — display a help screen 🆘
  • -v, --version — output version information and exit 🚪

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Leon Breedt <ljb@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but it may be used by others, slay). additional updates by Ben Webb <benwebb@users.sf.net> 🫶

and that's the whole thing bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓💖 this was DOPEWARS(6) from the Games Manual — signing off, stay iconic, ily, bye 👑🌈

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