TARADINO(6)

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💅 TARADINO(6) — the taradino page, section 6 ofc

okay bestie, welcome to the taradino manual page 🎀 this is a section 6 page (that's the games section, iykyk), and it's genuinely iconic. let's get into it.

🌈 NAME 🌈

taradino-huntbgin — a whole SDL2 port of Rise of the Triad, no cap. that's the name, that's the vibe. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

taradino-huntbgin [options]

yeah so you just run it and optionally throw some options at it. that's the whole thing. simple queen behavior. 💅

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so TARADINO is a port of Rise of the Triad — that's Apogee's 3D action title, originally dropped way back in 1994 👑. like, ancient. vintage. main character energy since the 90s.

this port duplicates the functionality of the original game on modern operating systems, which includes Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X 🫶. so yes, you can play it on your machine in current year, absolutely slay.

the portability fixes are lowkey the flex here: support for 64-bit and big-endian systems 🌈. not me getting emotional over endianness 😭.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay here's the full menu, every single one, no skips, fr fr 🍓:

  • aim — gives you an aim crosshair. aiming queen 🎯
  • fullscreen — starts in fullscreen mode. all the pixels, none of the desktop 🖥️
  • window — starts in windowed mode. cozy little window vibe 🪟
  • resolution widthxheight — specify the screen resolution to use — the next parameter is widthxheight. valid resolutions are 320x200 and 640x480 only, so don't get creative 💀
  • filertl file — used to load Userlevels (RTL files) 🧚
  • filertc file — used to load Battlelevels (RTC files) ⚔️
  • file file — used to load WAD files. the classic 🍔
  • nojoys — disable check for joystick 🕹️
  • nomouse — disable check for mouse 🖱️
  • nosound — disable sound. silent mode, respectfully 🔇
  • ver — version number. who even are you 💁
  • 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. yes, VR. in this economy 🥽
  • noecho — turn off sound reverb 🎧
  • demoexit — exit program when demo is terminated 🚪
  • warp level — warp to specific level — the next parameter is level to start on. skipping ahead, bold of you ✨
  • timelimit time — play in time limit mode — the next parameter is time in seconds ⏱️
  • maxtimelimit time — maximum time to count down from — the next parameter is time in seconds ⏳
  • help — display help message. the classic cry for help 🫶
  • dopefish — ? ...that's it. that's the whole description. the manpage literally just says ? 😭 iconic honestly. nobody knows. it's giving mystery. iykyk 💀
side note bestie: those options are written without leading dashes in the original page, so that's exactly how you're getting them here. don't come for me 💅

👑 AUTHORS 👑

  • Rise of the Triad was created and published as shareware by Apogee Software, Ltd. and was published commercially by FormGen, Inc. 🏢
  • the primary contributors to the original icculus.org port are: Steven Fuller, Ryan C. Gordon, John Hall and Dan Olson 🙌
  • the authors of the Taradino port are: Fabian Greffrath and erysdren 🌟
  • this manual page was written by Fabian Greffrath <fabian@debian-unofficial.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others) 💖
  • this manual page was revised by erysdren <contact@erysdren.me> ✨

🎀 the cute sign-off 🎀

and that's the page, bestie!! this is version 1.1.3, dated 2024-07-03, and it's the TARADINO(6) page — go forth and play some 1994 3D action, you absolute legend 🦋💜 periodt.

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