The Ur-Quan Masters is a 2D inter-galatic adventure game. You
return to Earth with a vessel built from technology discovered from an
ancient race called the Precursors only to find it enslaved. Gather allies
from a wide variety of races, engage in space combat with various foes, and
save the galaxy from the Ur-Quan!
Valid command line options:
- -h, --help
- Display a help message.
- -r, --res
resolution
- Sets the screen resolution. Unless --opengl is set, the only valid values
are 640x480 and 320x240.
- -f, --fullscreen
- Uses full screen mode. Pretty straightforward. Usually good to combine
with -r 320x240.
- -o, --opengl
- Use OpenGL drivers. This produces higher-quality graphics, and may be
faster as well -- but it also may not work on older cards.
- -c,
--scale=mode
- Graphics scaling mode (linear, biadapt, biadv, triscan, hq). Default is
none. Try these to get smoother graphics with cost on performance.
- -b,
--meleezoom=mode
- Melee scaling mode (step, aka pc, or smooth, aka 3do). Default is 3do.
Slower machine owners can set it to nearest to get better performance in
melee but degraded visual quality.
- -s, --scanlines
- Simulates interlaced displays.
- -p, --fps
- Print fps information in the status window.
- -g, --gamma
value
- Sets gamma correction. 1.0 causes no change (unless your graphics card is
originally set to a different value). Higher than 1.0 makes the image
brighter, lower than 1.0 makes it darker.
- -C. --configdir
directory
- Set the directory where the game will seek its configuration files.
- -n, --contentdir
directory
- Set the directory where the game will seek its data.
- -M, --musicvol
volume
- Set music volume (0-100).
- -S, --sfxvol
volume
- Set sound effects volume (0-100).
- -T, --speechvol
volume
- Set speech volume (0-100). If set to 0, game runs in 'no speech' mode and
oscilloscope reacts to the music.
- -q, --audioquality high |
medium | low
- Specifies how nice the audio sounds. Slower machines should lower the
audio quality.
- -u, --nosubtitles
- Disables subtitles.
- -l, --logfile
file
- Sends console output to a logfile.
- --addon
addon
- Replace addon by the name of an add-on to enable in the game. May
be specified multiple times.
- --sound openal | mixsdl |
none
- Specifies which driver/mixer to use. Default is mixsdl. openal is only
available when it has been compiled in. It may produce higher-quality
sound and will probably be faster, but it is not very stable on linux
platforms, and may not work well with some sound cards. Use
"none" as a last resort if you cannot get other drivers to work,
or if you have no soundcard.
- --stereosfx
- Enables positional sound effects in melee. Currently works only when using
openal.
- --nethostN
hostname
- Server to connect to for player N (1=bottom, 2=top)
- --netportN
port
- port to connect to/listen on for player N (1=bottom, 2=top) The default
port is 21837.
- --netdelay
frames
- Number of frames to buffer/delay network input for.
- -m, --music 3do |
pc
- Controls use of the 3DO remixed soundtrack for songs that were in fact
remixed. 3DO is the default.
- -i, --intro 3do |
pc
- Controls the intro/ending version. 3DO is the default.
- --cscan pc |
3do
- Use either PC (text) or 3DO (pictograms) style planet information when
scanning. The default is PC.
- Use either PC style (text and 'CREW'/'BATT') or 3DO (pictograms) in melee.
The default is PC.
- --font pc |
3do
- Use either PC or 3DO style fonts and colors. The default is PC.
- --shield pc |
3do
- Use either PC style (static) or 3DO style (throbbing) slave shield. The
default is PC.
- --scroll pc |
3do
- Scroll voice-over/subtitles 1 page at a time (PC style) or smoothly (3DO
style) when using left/right arrow keys. The default is PC.
The Ur-Quan Masters was derived from code written by Toys for Bob,
Inc. for the 3DO version of 'Star Control II', with their permission and
encouragement. See /usr/share/doc/uqm/AUTHORS.gz for a complete list
of authors.