FREECOL(6)

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💖 FREECOL 💖

okay bestie, so this is the manual page for freecol in section 6, from FreeCol's Manpage. yes we're doing a whole deep dive, grab a snack 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

freecol — a free clone of Colonization 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

freecol [OPTIONS]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically, this manual page gives you the lowdown on the freecol command, briefly. and real talk, the only reason this page exists at all is because this is the Debian distribution and the original program didn't ship a manual page — so Debian said "fine, we'll write one ourselves" 💅

freecol is a free clone of the famous game Colonization. it's a turn based strategy game where every player becomes the leader of a European nation, and you're fighting to get independence from the mother country. literally main character energy, you're out here running a whole nation 🎀

and here's the slay part: a multiplayer mode has been added to the original game. periodt ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's the rundown of the options, we got you:

  • --freecol-data DIR — DIR should be the directory that has FreeCol's data files in it, and inside it there's a subdirectory called images. yes it's specific, no we don't make the rules 🫶
  • --windowed — runs FreeCol in windowed mode instead of full screen mode. for when you gotta multitask, iykyk 🙈
  • --no-sound — runs FreeCol without sound. silent mode activated, very mysterious of you 💜
  • --usage — shows a summary of options.
  • --version — shows the version of the program. icon status confirmed 👑
  • --server PORT — starts a stand-alone server on the specified port. going solo server mode, that's so real 🌈

🌟 LICENSE 🌟

FreeCol is available under GPL license terms.

🧚 JAVA-WRAPPERS NOTE 🧚

heads up bestie, this program is a shell script wrapper based on java-wrappers(7). so you get a bunch of extra features for free — go peek at the java-wrappers(7) manual page for the deets, no cap 🎀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this manual page was written by Jean Lepropre <jean_lepropre@users.sourceforge.net>, for the Debian project (but it may be used by others, they're not gatekeeping 🫶).

it was updated by Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org> ✨

so that's the whole vibe check: GNU, dated July 28, 2004, for FREECOL(6). go forth and colonize (independence-ly) bestie, love u 💖🦋
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