03-04-2020
Hello Neo,
Thanks a TON for making this BOT, this is an awesome experience. I played it for 20 mins or so on Telegram.
It is FUN. Appreciate your dedication and hard work here; I wish I could also do this kind of coding someday
On side note, I think I replied 30 to 40 answers
Thanks,
R. Singh
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freevial
FREEVIAL(6) Games Manual FREEVIAL(6)
NAME
freevial - trivia platform for community events
SYNOPSIS
freevial [OPTIONS] [--database <PATH>] [--skin <PATH>]
DESCRIPTION
This page briefly documents the freevial command. Freevial is trivia-like game for community events (idealy to be played with a projector).
USAGE
You may need to specify the path to the questions database you want to use with the --database argument. The database can be either folder
or a compressed file.
Additionally, you can choose a different look using the --skin option to tell it where the appearance information it should use is located.
OPTIONS
-d, --debug
Run Freevial in debug mode (this doesn't change much at all).
-m, --mute
Disable music and sounds.
-f, --fullscreen
Start in fullscreen mode (it can be windowed ingame with F11).
-l, --locked
Start in locked mode (game can't be closed nor questions aborted; unlock by pressing the l-key in the team selection screen).
-h, --help
Prints the help and exists.
-v, --version
Prints information about the current version and release series, and exists.
--info-db, --info-database
Prints information about the loaded database and exists. This can be combined with the --database option.
--no-sound
Disables all sounds. You can use --mute to also disable the music.
--no-music
Disables the music. You can use --mute to also disable sounds.
--fps Displays the framerate on screen.
--psyco
Tries to use the psyco module in order to accelerate Freevial. This is not recommended, as it will need more memory.
REPORTING BUGS
If you find any bug please report it on: https://bugs.launchpad.net/freevial/.
AUTHOR
Freevial was written by Carles Oriol <carles@kumbaworld.com> and Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) <siggi.gevatter@gmail.com>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2007-2008 The Freevial Team
Freevial is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License, either version 3 of
the License or any later version.
Freevial is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; see the GNU General Public License for more details.
Freevial Gresca November 24, 2007 FREEVIAL(6)