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>

GNU                                               July 28, 2004                                       FREECOL(6)