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.