NAME

alephone - game engine based on Marathon 2

SYNOPSIS

alephone [ options ] [ directory ]

DESCRIPTION

Aleph One is an open-source descendant of Bungie's Marathon 2 first-person 3D shooting game. Aleph One runs Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity, and 3rd-party content on a wide variety of platforms, with (optional) OpenGL rendering, Internet play, Lua scripting, and more.

OPTIONS

-h, --help: Show summary of options.
-v, --version: Show version of program.
-d, --debug: Allow saving of core files after crashes.
-f, --fullscreen: Run the game fullscreen.
-w, --windowed: Run the game in a window.
-g, --nogl: Do not use OpenGL.
-s, --nosound: Do not access the sound card.
-m, --nogamma: Disable gamma table effects (menu fades).
-j, --nojoystick: Do not initialize joysticks.
directory: Directory containing the data files of a scenario (map file, scripts, etc.)

ENVIRONMENT

ALEPHONE_DATA: Directories that are searched for data files. This is a colon-separated list. Entries later in the list have precedence over entries earlier in the list.

FILES

~/.alephone: Aleph One personalization directory. Alephone stores preferences, game recordings, saved games, and screen shots there. If ALEPHONE_DATA is not set, alephone searches this directory for data files after searching the directory given as its argument.

BUGS

If ALEPHONE_DATA is set, the directory argument is ignored.