NAME
falconseye - play NetHack using a mouse-driven isometric graphical interface
SYNOPSIS
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]
[OPTION]
DESCRIPTION
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.
AUTHOR
Jaakko Peltonen, <[email protected]>
REPORTING BUGS
Report Falcon's-Eye-specific bugs to <[email protected]> and NetHack bugs to <[email protected]>.
SEE ALSO
NetHack is documented in nethack(6).
The full documentation for Falcon's Eye is maintained in HTML at /usr/share/doc/falconseye/manual/index.html
The Falcon's Eye project page is http://www.hut.fi/~jtpelto2/nethack.html
The NetHack project page is http://www.nethack.org