GLTRON(6)

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✨ GLTRON ✨

okay bestie, sit down, we're talking about gltron 💖 — it's the tron-like 3D lightcycle game, and it lives in section 6 of the games manual. iykyk.

🦋 NAME 🦋

gltron — a tron-like 3D lightcycle game. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🏍️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

gltron [[-FftwbghcCsk1234simo]

yeah. that's literally how it's written, bestie, i'm not touching it 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

glTron is a tron-like lightcycle game with a nice 3D perspective. no cap. and heads up — 3D acceleration is recommended. it's giving "your GPU wants in on this" 🔥

More info lives at the gltron web site: http://www.gltron.org/ 🫶

😭 PROBLEMS 😭

okay so if stuff goes wrong, here's the tea:

  • If the game refuses to start up, check your hardware settings and make sure the necessary libraries are actually installed. like, they gotta exist. 🙈
  • If the options are messed up, remove ~/.gltronrc and try again. fresh start energy ✨
  • Anything else? Check TODO, check the known bugs on the website, and lastly — and i mean lastly — ask in #gltron on irc.freenode.net. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

Valid command line options, bestie, here we go:

  • -O — enable software optimizations. lowkey useful if your card doesn't have OpenGL acceleration. for best results, combine with -t and -1. 🧚
  • -f — fast finish after human has crashed
  • -F — don't display FPS counter
  • -t — don't display floor texture, use lines instead (huge speed gain) 🔥
  • -w — don't display walls (speed gain)
  • -x — don't show crash texture (speed gain)
  • -g — don't show glows (small speed gain)
  • -c — don't show ai status
  • -C — show ai status (default: on)
  • -1 — set resolution to 320x240
  • -2 — set resolution to 640x480 (default)
  • -3 — set resolution to 800x600
  • -4 — set resolution to 1024x768
  • -s — don't play sound 🔇
  • -h — help
also, the synopsis mentions k, i, m and o — they're in the usage string but there's no description for them here. not me noticing 👀

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This manual page got its PROBLEMS section updated by Countersync <countersync@hotmail.com> before submission to upstream source. iconic of them, honestly 🫶

The manual page itself was written by Jeronimo Pellegrini <pellegrini@mpcnet.com.br>, based on the information in the package by Raphael Bossek, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but it may be used by others, so go off 💖).

and that's a wrap, bestie 🌈 this was GLTRON, section 6 of the Games Manual, dated 2001-06-10 — vintage, honestly, but still slaying 💅✨

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