VULTURE-SLASHEM(6)

NAME
vulture-slashem - play SLASH'em using a mouse-driven isometric graphical interface

SYNOPSIS
vulture-slashem [-d directory] [-n] [-p profession (role)] [-r race] [-D] [-X] [-u playername] vulture-slashem [-d directory] -s [-v] [-p profession (role)] [-r race] [player_name] [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION
Vulture 2.2.100 is an enhanced, highly graphical window port (user interface) for SLASH'em. It adds a lot of eye candy and multimedia to the game while keeping the original gameplay of SLASH'em. Here's a brief list of features: High-res, 32-bit isometric graphics with real-time lighting Customizable digitized sound effects Symphonic soundtracks Mouse-driven interface (keyboard play also works) HTML manual Command-line options are the same as SLASH'em:

-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 argument, 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. You need to be root to enter wizard mode. Normal users will get explore mode instead.

-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.

AUTHORS
Daniel Thaler, <daniel@dthaler.de> Clive Crous, <clive@crous.co.za> Based on Falcon's Eye by: Jaakko Peltonen, <jaakko dot peltonen at hut dot fi>

REPORTING BUGS
Report Vulture-specific bugs to Clive Crous and NetHack bugs to <nethack-bugs@nethack.org>.

SEE ALSO
NetHack is documented in nethack(6). The full documentation for Vulture is maintained in HTML at /usr/share/doc/vulture/manual/index.html The Vulture project page is http://darkarts.co.za/project/vulture The NetHack project page is http://www.nethack.org The SLASH'em project page is http://www.slashem.org