A free clone of colonization
freecol [OPTIONS]
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.
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.
FreeCol is available under GPL license terms.
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.
Homepage: http://freecol.sourceforge.net/
This manual page was written by Jean Lepropre <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
It was updated by Vincent Fourmond <[email protected]>