HEROES(6)

📦 version 0.21, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 HEROES(6) 💖

the Games manual section, bestie — and yes we're talking about Heroes, the iconic little game that ate and left no crumbs.

✨ NAME ✨

Heroes — a game like Nibbles or Tron, just better 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

heroes [OPTIONS]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so listen. Heroes is a game that's similar to the "Tron" and "Nibbles" games of yore, but it includes many graphical improvements and new game features. It's giving glow-up. It's giving main character energy. No cap. 🔥

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. (That's just how it is, babe. 🫶)

💜 OPTIONS 💜

🌸 General options:

  • -v, --version — display version number
  • -h, --help — display this help
  • -q, --quiet — don't print warning messages
  • -Q, --really-quiet — don't even print error messages 😭 like it's fully silent
  • -v, --verbose=CHANNELS — enable or disable debugging channels (see --list=debug for available channels)
  • -l, --list=WORD — show some internal information; WORD can be 'debug', 'resources', 'sound-drivers' or 'sound-tracks'

🔊 Sound options:

  • -d, --driver=N[,OPTIONS] — use Nth driver for sound output (0:autodetect) (see --list=sound-drivers for available Ns)
  • -S, --no-sound — disable sound 🔇
  • -X, --no-sfx — disable sound-effects
  • -m, --mono — non-stereo output
  • -8, --8bits — 8bits sound output
  • -i, --high-quality — high quality mixer ✨

🖥️ Display options:

  • -G, --gfx-options=OPTIONS — pass OPTIONS to the display driver
  • -F, --full-screen — full screen mode
  • -2, --double — stretch the display twofold
  • -3, --triple — stretch the display threefold
  • -4, --quadruple — stretch the display fourfold
  • -e, --even-lines — display only even-lines

🎲 Miscellaneous options:

  • --cpu-off — disable computer opponents 🤖🚫
  • --default-scores — restore default scores file
  • --default-options — restore default options file
  • --default-saves — restore default saves file
  • -s, --swap-sides — swap sides in two player mode
  • --no-double-fx — disable combination of rotozoom and waves
  • -g, --go — skip the introduction
  • -J, --no-joystick — disable joystick handling 🕹️

So here's the tea, bestie: these options can be set in your file ~/.heroes/heroesrc (which is read before parsing other command line options) using a line like the following:

Options: -gs -d3,buffer=11,count=4

Visit http://heroes.sourceforge.net/ for news, documentation, and updates. 👑

🐛 REPORTING BUGS 🐛

Report bugs to <heroes-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net>.

(Be nice about it, okay? Devs are people too. 🫶)

Copyright © 2002 Alexandre Duret-Lutz, Romuald Genevois, Alexandre Liverneaux and Philippe Meisburger.

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Like fr fr, no warranty at all. Not even the merchantability vibe. Not even the fitness-for-a-particular-purpose vibe. Zero. Nada. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

The full documentation for Heroes is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and Heroes programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info Heroes

should give you access to the complete manual. iykyk 📖✨

okay that's the whole page, ily, go play some Heroes 💖 — this was Heroes 0.21, from March 2002, and you're reading HEROES(6). periodt. 🎀🦋

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