ROTT(6)

👑 ROTT — Rise of the Triad, but make it a man page 💅

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about rott — the manual page for Rise of the Triad, living in section 6 of the manual (that's the games section, iykyk) 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rott [options]

rott-shareware [options]

rott-commercial [options]

three little incantations, three very different vibes 💖

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So. ROTT is a port of Apogee's 3D action title Rise of the Triad, and the original dropped way back in 1994. This port duplicates the functionality of the original game but on modern operating systems — we're talking Linux, Win32, and Mac OS X. no cap, she runs. 🦋

Now the binaries, because this is the part where people get confused and I refuse to let that happen to you:

• rott-shareware starts the Shareware Version of the game.
• rott-commercial starts the Commercial Version of the game — and yes that includes the CD Version and the Site License CD Version.

And then there's rott, the main character 👑 — it's a symbolic link to one of those two binaries, and it's handled via Debian's update-alternatives mechanism. so basically rott is the friend who's like "don't worry, I know a guy." 💅

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

one bullet per flag, no skips, no shortcuts, we're doing the whole list because that's what besties do 🫶

• aim — gives you an aim crosshair. little dot of destiny 🎯
• fullscreen — start in fullscreen mode.
• window — start in windowed mode.
• resolution widthxheight — specify the screen resolution to use. the next parameter is widthxheight. the valid resolutions are 320x200, 640x480 and 800x600. don't get creative, those are the ones ✨
• spaceball — enable check for Spaceball.
• nojoys — disable check for joystick. joystick, you're on read 🚫🕹️
• nomouse — disable check for mouse.
• nosound — disable sound. silent mode, stealth mode, library mode 🤫
• cyberman — enable check for Cyberman.
• assassin — enable check for Wingman Assassin.
• ver — version number.
• mapstats — dump Map statistics to ERROR.
• tilestats — dump Tile statistics to ERROR.
• mono — enable mono-monitor support.
• screenshots — clean screen capture for shots. 📸
• pause — pauses startup screen information.
• enablevr — enable VR helmet input devices.
• noecho — turn off sound reverb.
• demoexit — exit program when demo is terminated.
• warp level — warp to a specific ROTT level. the next parameter is the level to start on.
• timelimit time — play ROTT in time limit mode. the next parameter is the time in seconds.
• maxtimelimit time — maximum time to count down from. the next parameter is the time in seconds. (yes, the original spells it "Maximimum." we're keeping it. heritage 🏛️💖)
• dopefish — ?

the dopefish option's entire documented behaviour is literally a question mark. that's it. that's the whole entry. I'm not going to invent lore for it, bestie, I'm just going to hold your hand and say: it is what it is 🙈

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

okay, credits time, because we always thank the people who made the thing:

ROTT was created and published as shareware by Apogee Software, Ltd. and was published commercially by FormGen, Inc.

The primary contributors to the icculus.org port are: Steven Fuller, Ryan C. Gordon, John Hall and Dan Olson. absolute icons, every single one 🔥👑

This manual page was written by Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian-unofficial.org> for the Debian project — and yes, it may be used by others. generous queen behavior fr fr 🎀

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌈

this was version 1.0 of the page, dated 2008-04-23, filed under ROTT(6) — Rise of the Triad, section 6, the games section, where all the cool kids hang out 💖✨🎀🦋💅