PRBOOM-GAME-SERVER(6)						   Games Manual 					     PRBOOM-GAME-SERVER(6)

NAME

       prboom-game-server - Server for network games of PrBoom.

SYNOPSIS

       prboom-game-server [ -adfnrv ] [ -e epis ] [ -l level ] [ -t ticdup ]  [ -x xtics ] [ -p port ] [ -s skill ] [ -N players ]  [ -c conffile-
       name ]  [ -w wadname[,dl_url ]]

DESCRIPTION

       PrBoom is a version of the 3D shoot'em'up Doom, originally by id software.  It includes, amongst other things, the  ability  to	play  with
       several players connected by a tcp/ip network. prboom-game-server is the `server', that is the program that passes data between the differ-
       ent players in the game.

       To start a network game (often abbreviated to `netgame'), first the server is started. prboom-game-server  accepts  various  parameters	to
       control the type of game (the skill level, number of players, level to play, optional WAD file(s) to load, etc).

       Then  each  player  that  wishes to participate runs prboom -net hostname, where hostname is the name of the machine on which the server is
       running. Each copy of prboom retrieves information about the game from the server, and when the specified number of  players  have  joined,
       the game begins.

Options
       -N players
	      Specifies  the  number  of  players  in the game (default 2). The server will wait for this many players to join before starting the
	      game.

       -e epis
	      The episode to play (default 1).	Unless you are playing Doom 1 or Ultimate Doom, and wish to play one of the later episodes, you do
	      not need to change this.

       -l level
	      The level to play (default 1).

       -s skill
	      Specify the skill level to play (1-5).

       -d     Set  game  mode to (old) deathmatch (default is cooperative). See the original Doom docs for information about the different network
	      game modes.

       -a     Set game mode to `altdeath' (v2 deathmatch) (default is cooperative). See the original Doom docs for information about the different
	      network game modes.

       -f     Select fast mode (monsters move faster).

       -n     Selects nomonsters mode, i.e. there are no monsters in the game.

       -r     Respawn mode. If you don't know what this is, you don't want to ;-).

       -c conffilename
	      Specifies  a  configuration  file to read which sets parameters for the game. This is in the same format as the PrBoom configuration
	      file (in fact, you can ask it to read your normal PrBoom configuration file if you want). Only certain  settings	are  acknowledged:
	      default_skill, default_compatibility_level, the compatibility options and some of the game settings (use -v to have the server print
	      the options as it recognises them).

       -w wadname[,dl_url]
	      Specifies a WAD file to play. This is added to the internal list that the server keeps. When a client connects, the server sends the
	      list  of	WADs;  PrBoom will then add this to the list of WADs specified on its command line.  Optionally, an url to the file can be
	      given too; if when PrBoom connects it cannot find the named WAD, it will attempt to retrieve the file from the given url, extracting
	      it if necessary. See prboom(1) for information about the supported url types and compression formats.

       -t ticdup
	      Reserved.

       -x xtics
	      This  causes  extra  information to be sent with each network packet; this will help on networks with high packet loss, but will use
	      more bandwidth.

       -p port
	      Tells prboom-game-server what port number to communicate via (default 5030).  Note that if you change this from  the  default,  then
	      all the clients will also need to specify this number when they try to connect (the default programmed into prboom is also 5030).

       -v     Increases verbosity level; causes more diagnostics to be printed, the more times -v is specified.

More Information
       prboom(6), boom.cfg(5)

       For more information, see the README that came with PrBoom.

       Doom is a registered trademark of id software (http://www.idsoftware.com/).

Author
       See the file AUTHORS included with the PrBoom distribution.  This man page was written by Colin Phipps (cph@moria.org.uk).

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