After first checkout run ./bootstrap, ./configure then make. After making changes to the code just run make to rebuild.

Copy the data file (SPAE.PA) to the same directory as the program.

Keyboard controls:

• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5: Activate one of the five buttons in the panel.
• +/-: Increase/decrease game speed.
• 0: Reset game speed.
• p: Pause game.
• s: Enable/disable sounds playback
• m: Enable/disable music playback

Because of a bug in SDL the game may hang when playing sound effects if you are using pulseaudio. This can be worked around by selecting a different SDL audio driver (e.g. SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa).

To load a save game file from the original game:

$ freeserf -l SAVE0.DS

The game is paused after loading so press p to start the game. Saving the same in freeserf is not possible yet.

Run freeserf -h for more info on command line options.