After the liberation of the Warzone 2100 source-code on December 6th, 2004, all proprietary technologies had been replaced with open-source-counterparts.

Right now supported platforms are GNU/Linux, Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and Windows (98 - XP). There are reports that Warzone 2100 GPL is working on BSD, too. Some people even run it under Windows Vista, which is not directly supported.

The game is still in a beta-state, so do not expect the game to run without any issues.

Warzone saves your configuration data in a file named "config". Where this file is located depends on your operating system.

Warzone-dir under GNU/Linux

It can be found in your home-directory and is called ".warzone2100". The leading dot indicates that it is a hidden folder so depending on your configuration you may not be able to see it. However, you can still access it by typing the path into your address-bar.

Warzone-dir under Windows

The folder is called "Warzone 2100" and is located in "My Documents".

Additionally to the configuration-file Warzone can be started with different parameters.

Note: This parameters all have two dashes (--), not one dash only (-). Trying to use the parameters with one dash only will not work.

Note: All mentioned command-line parameters except --datadir change the appropriate value in your config-file. Starting warzone by double-clicking the executable/binary will then start the game with the settings used last time. So don't wonder, if there is no sound, when you started warzone with --nosound last time.

As the original game music is part of the data that was not liberated, music is reintroduced in a different way. A playlist-system is used that can point to any *.ogg or *.mp3-file in your warzone-data-path. This is still experimental and we are gradually making this more usable.

Warzone reads the following two playlists (in the order they are mentioned) and the first playlist found will be used:

• Warzone-directory in your personal directory:
  • for GNU/Linux: ~/.warzone2100/music/music.wpl
  • for Windows: ~/My Documents/Warzone 2100/music/music.wpl
• Warzone-install-path:
  • <whereverwarzoneisinstalled>/music/music.wpl

Using the playlist

The playlist contains two sections, [game] and [menu]. For each section you can define a list of songs you want to be played in-game. Supported file-formats are OGG and MP3 as long as all necessary libraries are installed.

With "shuffle=yes" you specify that you want the songs to played in random order. You need to set this for each section individually.

Using "path=." you specify that the following files are found in the folder the playlist was found. If you do not specify a path all file-names have to be given with "absolute" path. This "absolute" path is still relative to your warzone-data-dir. File-names have to match those in the file-system and you can not specify files outside of the warzone-data-dir.

This example shows how a playlist-file could look like:

[game]
path=.
shuffle=yes
neos_aurore.ogg
neos_chocolat.ogg
neos_down.ogg
neos_esperance.ogg
neos_indy.ogg

[menu]
path=.
neos_symphonie_du_vide.ogg

There are two methods to start a multiplayer-game via internet: using the host's IP or using the lobby-server. Make sure to be able to communicate on TCP-ports 9998 and 9999.

You can choose whether to connect via Lobby or IP:

• If you choose IP, Warzone 2100 asks you for the ip-address of the host and will try to connect to that IP.
• If you choose Lobby, Warzone 2100 will connect to the lobby server, as long as the lobby-server-address in your config-file has not been changed.

You will see a list of games from which you can select one.

You can kick unwanted players out of not-yet-started game by clicking left on them while holding the right mouse button.

When you are hosting a game it will automatically be listed on the lobby-server. If you do not want your games to be listed on the lobby-server, you have to change the entry "masterserver_name=lobby.wz2100.net" in your config to something invalid as "nomasterserverplease".

If you then want to see the games that are listed on the lobby-server you may enter "lobby.wz2100.net" when prompted to enter the host's IP or change the entry in the config-file back. You will have to restart Warzone 2100 in order for config-changes to take effect.