falconseye(6)

falconseye6

Play nethack using a mouse-driven isometric graphical interface

Usage

falconseye [-d directory] [-n] [-p profession (role)] [-r race] [-D] [-X] [-u playername]

falconseye [-d directory] -s [-v] [-p profession (role)] [-r race] [player_name]

Overview

Falcon's Eye 1.9.3 is an enhanced, highly graphical window port (user interface) for NetHack. It adds a lot of eye candy and multimedia to the game while keeping the original gameplay of NetHack.

Here's a brief list of features:

High-res, 256-color isometric graphics with real-time lighting

Customizable digitized sound effects

Symphonic MIDI soundtrack

Mouse-driven interface (keyboard play also works)

Interface aids (including autopilot and mouseover identification)

Customizable command keys

HTML manual

Command-line options are the same as NetHack:

-d directory

Use the given directory as the playground. Help files, top scorers and saved games are stored in this directory. This must be the first arguent, if specified.

-n

Suppress news from the administrator.

-p profession

Set your character's profession.

-r race

Set your character's race.

-D

Start the game in wizard mode. You cannot switch to a normal game while wizard mode is active, and your score will not be listed in the top scores.

-X

Start the game in explore mode. You cannot switch to a normal game while explore mode is active, and your score will not be listed in the top scores.

-u player_name

Set your character's name.

-s

Display top scores for the current version of NetHack, filtered by professions, races or player names if specified.

-v

Display top scores for all versions. Should immediately follow -s.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 4.0

-D since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -X since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -d since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -n since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -p since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -r since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -s since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -u since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -v since Debian 4.0 (Etch).