TARADINO(6)

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💖 TARADINO(6) — Taradino (Shareware) 💖

okay bestie, buckle up, we're doing the TARADINO(6) page and it's literally iconic ✨ this is the manual for taradino-shareware, living in section 6 of the manual, filed under Taradino (Shareware) — iykyk 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

taradino-shareware — an SDL2 port of Rise of the Triad, no cap 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

taradino-shareware [options]

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

TARADINO is a port of Apogee's 3D action title Rise of the Triad, which originally dropped way back in 1994 💅 This port brings the whole functionality of the original game to modern operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X 🫶

And the portability fixes? Lowkey the moment: support for 64-bit and big-endian systems. She said "your architecture is not the problem, bestie" 💖

💅 OPTIONS 💅

so here's the whole menu, every single one, don't skip 🍓

  • aim — gives you an aim crosshair 🎯
  • fullscreen — starts the game in fullscreen mode
  • window — starts the game in windowed mode
  • resolution widthxheight — picks the screen resolution to use, and the next parameter is widthxheight 📐 the valid resolutions are 320x200 and 640x480
  • filertl file — used to load Userlevels, aka RTL files 🌈
  • filertc file — used to load Battlelevels, aka RTC files ⚔️
  • file file — used to load WAD files
  • nojoys — disables the check for a joystick 🕹️
  • nomouse — disables the check for a mouse 🖱️
  • nosound — disables sound 🔇
  • ver — version number
  • mapstats — dumps Map statistics to ERROR 🗺️
  • tilestats — dumps Tile statistics to ERROR 🧱
  • mono — enables mono-monitor support
  • screenshots — clean screen capture for shots 📸
  • pause — pauses startup screen information
  • enablevr — enables VR helmet input devices 🥽
  • noecho — turns off sound reverb
  • demoexit — exits the program when the demo is terminated
  • warp level — warps to a specific level, and the next parameter is the level to start on 🌀
  • timelimit time — plays in time limit mode, and the next parameter is time in seconds ⏳
  • maxtimelimit time — the maximum time to count down from, and the next parameter is time in seconds
  • help — displays the help message 🙋
  • dopefish — ? 🐟 (she's mysterious, we respect it)

💜 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> 🦋

ok that's the whole page, every flag, every file, every name, nothing dropped, periodt 💖

so yeah — this lil doc is version 2025.12.22, dated 2024-07-03, and it's giving TARADINO(6) energy forever 🌈✨ mwah, go play some Rise of the Triad bestie 💅🎀

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