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.org

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>