NAME¶
freecol - A free clone of Colonization
SYNOPSIS¶
freecol [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
freecol command. This manual page
was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not
have a manual page.
freecol is a free clone of the famous game Colonization. It's a turn
based strategy game in which each player becomes leader of an European nation,
fighting to obtain the independence of the mother country.
A multiplayer mode has been added to the original game.
OPTIONS¶
A summary of options is included below.
- --freecol-data DIR
- DIR should be the directory with FreeCol's data files, it
has a subdirectory called images.
- --windowed
- Runs FreeCol in windowed mode instead of full screen
mode.
- --no-sound
- Runs FreeCol without sound.
- --usage
- Shows summary of options.
- --version
- Shows version of program.
- --server PORT
- Starts a stand-alone server on the specified port.
LICENSE¶
FreeCol is available under GPL license terms.
JAVA-WRAPPERS NOTE¶
This program is a shell script wrapper based on
java-wrappers(7). You
therefore benefit from several features; please see the
java-wrappers(7) manual page.
SEE ALSO¶
Homepage:
http://freecol.sourceforge.net/
java-wrappers(7)
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Jean Lepropre
<jean_lepropre@users.sourceforge.net>, for the Debian project (but may
be used by others).
It was updated by Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>
