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srogue: begin porting to autoconf. Super-Rogue can now be built with './configure && make', though 'make install' does not work yet, and there may be problems with portability.
author John "Elwin" Edwards
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1 Roguelike Gallery (rlgallery.org)
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3 This is the source code for the Roguelike Gallery's version of Rogue V3.
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5 History
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6 Rogue 3 was released by Michael Toy, Ken Arnold, and Glenn Wichman, probably
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7 late in 1980. It went through several minor updates. The last, Rogue 3.6,
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8 was completed mid-June 1981.
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10 The Roguelike Restoration Project (rogue.rogueforge.net) updated the game to
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11 work on modern systems.
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13 The Roguelike Gallery's version has been slightly modified for compatibility
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14 with dgamelaunch and security for multiple players.
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16 Installing
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17 Rogue V3 now uses autotools. Run 'autoreconf' and then './configure' to
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18 configure for your system. Once that's finished, compile by running make. (I
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19 haven't tested the Visual Studio project files on Windows, but they should
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20 work.)
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22 If you don't use any options with './configure', rogue3 will keep the high
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23 score list in whatever directory you run it from. If you just want to play
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24 the game yourself, this will work.
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26 If you want multi-user play, use the '--enable-setgid' and '--enable-savedir'
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27 options to 'configure'. After compiling, install the rogue3 binary with setgid
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28 games. You will need to make sure that the save directory exists and that
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29 savefiles, the scorefile, and the logfile can be created and written by the
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30 games group (assuming you want those features.)
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32 There are other possible features, including wizard (debugging) mode. To see
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33 the full list, run './configure --help'.
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35 Playing
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36 For more details, see readme36.html (contains the man page) and rogue36.html
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37 (Michael Toy's "Guide to the Dungeons of Doom").
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39 Contact
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40 rlgallery.org admin: John "Elwin" Edwards <elwin@sdf.lonestar.org>