openspades(6)

📦 version 0.1.3, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 openspades(6) — the manual page, but make it make sense

okay so real talk, this is the manual page for openspades, living in section 6 of the manual (that's the games section bestie, iykyk) ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

OpenSpades — literally an open-source clone of Ace of Spades. that's it. that's the whole name section 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

openspades [OPTIONS] [SERVER URI]

so you run it, you can throw some OPTIONS at it, and optionally a SERVER URI and it just... goes 💫

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

OpenSpades is a clone of Voxlap Ace of Spades 0.75, which is a free multiplayer game created by Ben Aksoy. yeah. that's the origin story, and it's iconic 👑

here are the features, and no i will not be summarizing them, they all matter:

  • ability to connect to vanilla/pyspades server — yes bestie you can join the classic ones 🔥
  • better performance on some modern computers/netbooks — your little laptop deserves nice things 💻
  • sophisticated graphics — it's giving high fashion but for pixels 🎨
  • fully open source (GPLv3 compliant) — free as in freedom, free as in slay 🌈
  • cross-platform — it runs on basically everything, main character energy across the board 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -v version — specifies the protocol version. possible values are literally just 0.75 and 0.76. don't try to be creative, those are the two 🎀
  • SERVER URI — should be a string shaped like aos://address:port. the address can be a regular IP address or a specified Ace of Spades address. the port is just... a regular port. normal port behaviour, no cap 🦋
ngl if you're typing your server URI and it's aos://address:port shaped and still not working, double check you actually swapped address and port for real values instead of leaving the placeholder words in there 💀

Copyright © 2013-2026 yvt <i@yvt.jp>

License GPLv3: GNU GPL version 3 <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

okay so the "NO WARRANTY" bit is in all caps for a reason — it's fr fr no warranty of any kind here, to the extent permitted by law. read it, respect it, don't come for them if your netbook catches vibes 🙈

so yeah, that's the whole page! 🌸 this was page openspades(6), source/version tag openspades, dated by that copyright run of 2013-2026 — go forth and play, bestie, you're gonna eat 💖 🎀 ✨

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