KOULES(6)

🌈 KOULES 💅

ok so bestie, welcome to KOULES(6) — it lives in the games corner of your manual, and honestly? it's giving legend behaviour. the actual program name is xkoules, and it's an Action game for X11. buckle up 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xkoules [-SxslMmpdh]

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🦋 KOULES FROM THE TOP: 🦋

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                       \   /           /   \        X           O
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                               H A V E
                                 FUN
                                  !

like. the vibes. immaculate. 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so Koules is an action game. the mission? bounce all koules fighters from your sector. that's it. that's the whole assignment. slay. 💅

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -h — for help. read the help bestie, it's free 🫶
• -s — for small display (320x250) for slow machines. tiny screen, big heart ✨
• -l — for large display (640x480) default size. this one's the default btw 👑
• -m — for monochrome displays
• -b — for black and white mode
• -p — use private colormap 🎨
• -y — Synchronize with X, use only for debugging 🐛
• -f — Disable palette fading
• -d — Disable sound support. Game will run faster. (no sound but zoomies 🏃♀️)
• -x — Disable X11 pointer. Use game's own cursor when standard X11's cursor is blinking
• -M — DISABLE shared memory support. Slow down the game. Use only if shared memory support crashes. (⚠️ last-resort behaviour, only if it's actively breaking)

🍓 Network options 🍓

• -C<host> — run koules as network client
• -S — run koules as network server
• -P<port> — select port. Default is: 12345
  • Use this in case that some other program is already using this port. (port drama, we've all been there 😭)

🌈 Server options 🌈

• -W — run server in width mode — support for 320x200 svgalib and OS/2 clients.
  • Use this in case that server is refusing your clients. (rude of it, honestly)
• -L<level> — select level for server
• -D<number> — select dificulty for server:
  • 0: nightmare
  • 1: hard
  • 2: medium (default and recommended) ⭐
  • 3: easy
  • 4: very easy
• -K — run server in deathmatch mode 💀

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👑 Points: 👑

 Bounce something         :  +1
 Eat extension            :  +10
 Eat thief                :  -30
 Eat friend               :  +30 At end of level
 every live               :  +20
 every lost level         :  -100

In deathmatch mode:

 every destroyed concurrent:  +100

ok so the scoring is giving math but make it fashion. eat the wrong thing and you're losing points, no cap. 📉

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🧚 PORTABILITY 🧚

the program is written in ANSI C and uses the X11 graphics library. old school and iconic fr fr ✨

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💀 BUGS/LIMITATIONS 💀

Joystick is supported only on Linux. that's the whole limitation. if you're not on Linux and you wanted joystick... not me finding out the hard way 🙈

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/koules/English/koules.html

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Jan Hubicka

email: hubicka@paru.cas.cz

smail:

Jan Hubicka
Dukelskych bojovniku 1944
Tabor 39001
Czech Republic

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate 💅 go bounce some koules fighters, ily 🫶

and for the record, this little manual came from Linux and it's dated 28 Jul 1995 — like, the original vintage drop, and it's filed under KOULES(6) in the games section. periodt. 💖✨