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💖 UQM 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for uqm — that's Ur-Quan Masters for the uninitiated — sitting pretty in the Games Manual section (section 6, for the lore girlies who track that kind of thing). grab a snack, we're doing this ✨

🦋 NAME 🦋

uqm — literally Ur-Quan Masters, no cap 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

uqm [options]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so. The Ur-Quan Masters is a 2D inter-galatic adventure game 🚀 You roll back up to Earth with a whole vessel you built out of technology discovered from an ancient race called the Precursors... only to find the place enslaved. 😭 not the homecoming we ordered!!

So what do you do? Gather allies from a wide variety of races, engage in space combat with various foes, and save the galaxy from the Ur-Quan! 👑🫶 it's giving main character energy fr fr.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Valid command line options (yes, all of them, we're listing every single one because we don't skip 💖):

  • -h, --help — Display a help message. 🫶
  • -r, --res resolution — Sets the screen resolution. Unless --opengl is set, the only valid values are 640x480 and 320x240. 💀 pick carefully bestie
  • -f, --fullscreen — Uses full screen mode. Pretty straightforward, honestly. Usually good to combine with -r 320x240.
  • -o, --opengl — Use OpenGL drivers. This produces higher-quality graphics, and may be faster as well — but it also may not work on older cards. 🙈
  • -c, --scale=mode — Graphics scaling mode (linear, biadapt, biadv, triscan, hq). Default is none. Try these to get smoother graphics with cost on performance. ✨
  • -b, --meleezoom=mode — Melee scaling mode (step, aka pc, or smooth, aka 3do). Default is 3do. Slower machine owners can set it to nearest to get better performance in melee but degraded visual quality. 🎀
  • -s, --scanlines — Simulates interlaced displays. it's giving vintage CRT realness 🌈
  • -p, --fps — Print fps information in the status window.
  • -g, --gamma value — Sets gamma correction. 1.0 causes no change (unless your graphics card is originally set to a different value). Higher than 1.0 makes the image brighter, lower than 1.0 makes it darker.
  • -C. --configdir directory — Set the directory where the game will seek its configuration files. (and yes bestie, that period is literally printed that way in the manual, iykyk 🙈)
  • -n, --contentdir directory — Set the directory where the game will seek its data.
  • -M, --musicvol volume — Set music volume (0-100). 🎵
  • -S, --sfxvol volume — Set sound effects volume (0-100). 🔊
  • -T, --speechvol volume — Set speech volume (0-100). If set to 0, game runs in 'no speech' mode and oscilloscope reacts to the music. 🦋
  • -q, --audioquality high | medium | low — Specifies how nice the audio sounds. Slower machines should lower the audio quality.
  • -u, --nosubtitles — Disables subtitles.
  • -l, --logfile file — Sends console output to a logfile. 📝
  • --addon addon — Replace addon by the name of an add-on to enable in the game. May be specified multiple times.
  • --sound openal | mixsdl | none — Specifies which driver/mixer to use. Default is mixsdl. openal is only available when it has been compiled in. It may produce higher-quality sound and will probably be faster, but it is not very stable on linux platforms, and may not work well with some sound cards. Use "none" as a last resort if you cannot get other drivers to work, or if you have no soundcard. 💀
  • --stereosfx — Enables positional sound effects in melee. Currently works only when using openal.
  • --nethostN hostname — Server to connect to for player N (1=bottom, 2=top)
  • --netportN port — port to connect to/listen on for player N (1=bottom, 2=top) The default port is 21837. 🌐
  • --netdelay frames — Number of frames to buffer/delay network input for.
  • -m, --music 3do | pc — Controls use of the 3DO remixed soundtrack for songs that were in fact remixed. 3DO is the default. 🎶
  • -i, --intro 3do | pc — Controls the intro/ending version. 3DO is the default.
  • --cscan pc | 3do — Use either PC (text) or 3DO (pictograms) style planet information when scanning. The default is PC.
  • --menu pc | 3do — Use either PC style (text and 'CREW'/'BATT') or 3DO (pictograms) in melee. The default is PC.
  • --font pc | 3do — Use either PC or 3DO style fonts and colors. The default is PC.
  • --shield pc | 3do — Use either PC style (static) or 3DO style (throbbing) slave shield. The default is PC. ✨
  • --scroll pc | 3do — Scroll voice-over/subtitles 1 page at a time (PC style) or smoothly (3DO style) when using left/right arrow keys. The default is PC.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

The Ur-Quan Masters was derived from code written by Toys for Bob, Inc. for the 3DO version of 'Star Control II', with their permission and encouragement. 🫶 icons honestly

See /usr/share/doc/uqm/AUTHORS.gz for a complete list of authors. 📖

and that's the whole page bestie!! this one's dated 2004-03-07, from the UQM(6) page in the Games Manual — go save the galaxy, you absolute legend 👑💖
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