TARADINO(6)

💅 TARADINO — like, the whole vibe

okay so real talk: this is the manual page for taradino, section 6 of the manual, and it's about to be your new hyperfixation. buckle up bestie 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

taradino — it's the SDL2 port of Rise of the Triad, and yes that's the whole name, no notes 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

taradino [options]

that's it. that's the whole mood. a program, some options, endless possibilities ✨

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

TARADINO is a port of Apogee's 3D action title Rise of the Triad, which originally dropped way back in 1994 — literally older than most of us and still iconic 👑

This port duplicates the functionality of the original game on modern operating systems, including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. so yeah, wherever you're at, it's giving cross-platform main character energy 🌈

The portability fixes include support for 64-bit and big-endian systems. big-endian girlies, this one's for you 🫶

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🔥 OPTIONS 🔥

okay this is the part you actually came for, so let's get into it — one bullet per flag, no skips, no cap:

• aim — gives you an aim crosshair. helpful if you, like, want to hit things 💅
• fullscreen — starts in fullscreen mode. immersive. dramatic. correct.
• window — starts in windowed mode. for the multitaskers 🪟
• resolution widthxheight — specify the screen resolution to use (next parameter is widthxheight). valid resolutions are 320x200 and 640x480. that's the whole list, don't try to be cute about it.
• filertl file — used to load Userlevels (RTL files). yes, the flag is filertl and the file type is RTL. iykyk 🧚
• filertc file — used to load Battlelevels (RTC files). matching set, slay 💜
• file file — used to load WAD files. the classic. the icon.
• nojoys — disable check for joystick.
• nomouse — disable check for mouse.
• nosound — disable sound. silence really is golden sometimes 🙈
• ver — version number. for when you gotta know.
• mapstats — dump Map statistics to ERROR.
• tilestats — dump Tile statistics to ERROR. notice the capital letters, they're not decorative ✨
• mono — enable mono-monitor support.
• screenshots — clean screen capture for shots. no HUD clutter, just vibes 📸
• pause — pauses startup screen information. so you can actually read it, bestie 😭
• enablevr — enable VR helmet input devices. very futuristic of you 🥽
• noecho — turn off sound reverb.
• demoexit — exit program when demo is terminated.
• warp level — warp to specific level (next parameter is level to start on). skipping ahead, no judgment 💫
• timelimit time — play in time limit mode (next parameter is time in seconds).
• maxtimelimit time — maximum time to count down from (next parameter is time in seconds). pairs with timelimit, obviously 💖
• help — display help message. you're doing great, keep going.
• dopefish — ?

okay real talk about that last one: the original page literally just says ? and nothing else. that's the entire description. we do not know. the manpage does not know. the dopefish knows, and it's not telling 💀

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Rise of the Triad was created and published as shareware by Apogee Software, Ltd. and was published commercially by FormGen, Inc. — legends, both of them 🏆

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>.

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that's the whole page bestie, go frag some dudes 🫶

🎀 sign-off 🎀

so yeah — this was version 1.1.3, dated 2024-07-03, and that's the entire manual page for TARADINO(6) in the Taradino manual. periodt. 💅✨🌸