freecol(6)
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 specifed 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/
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>