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1 --- Early Roguelike Collection
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3 This is the source for the Roguelike Gallery's versions of Rogue and other
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4 early roguelike games, including Super-Rogue, Advanced Rogue, and XRogue.
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6 The code was obtained from the Roguelike Restoration Project (Web site at
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7 rogue.rogueforge.net). Modifications have been made for compatibility with the
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8 dgamelaunch play system, and compliance with modern C compiler standards. Some
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9 bugs have also been fixed, and the build process slightly improved. The
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10 essential flavor of a codebase half as old as stored-program computing
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11 machinery remains unchanged. The gameplay and the user interface will be kept
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12 true to the originals.
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14 This collection does not contain the versions of Rogue commercially released by
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15 Epyx for DOS, the Mac, and other graphical platforms of the 1980's. Nor does
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16 it include Rogue Clone, a reimplementation sometimes found in BSD or Linux
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17 distributions.
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19 --- Installation
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21 To install on Unix (including OS X):
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23 If you checked out the source from Mercurial, run 'autoreconf' first.
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25 Build by running './configure' and then 'make' within each game's subdirectory.
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26 If you only want to play the games from one user account, 'configure' won't
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27 need any options. The games will keep the high score lists in whatever
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28 directory you run them from.
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30 For a multi-user installation, you will need to set the '--enable-setgid',
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31 '--enable-savedir', '--enable-scorefile', and '--enable-logfile' options. Run
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32 'make install' with root privileges after building.
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34 There are other possible options; run './configure --help' for a full list.
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36 To install on Windows:
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38 Visual Studio solution and project files are included. They are still being
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39 tested but should work with Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 8.1.
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41 You will need pdcurses before you can build. Create a folder called 'pdcurses'
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42 in this folder and copy into it curses.h, term.h, and pdcurses.lib from the
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43 pdcurses distribution.
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45 You can also build on Windows using MinGW. Make sure pdcurses is installed.
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46 You will have to go into the '/lib' folder and copy 'libpdcurses.a' to
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47 'libcurses.a', and 'libpdcurses.dll.a' to 'libcurses.dll.a'; this should get
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48 fixed soon.
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50 It is recommended to run 'configure' with the '--disable-logfile' option, and
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51 'make' with the 'LDFLAGS=-static' option.
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53 See the individual games' subdirectories for further documentation. Some of
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54 the manpages may be outdated, but the guides to playing should be accurate.
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56 The games can be played via SSH or the Web at rlgallery.org.
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58 --- Licensing
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60 Each game is covered by its own license, usually some variant of the 4-clause
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61 BSD license. See the LICENSE.TXT files in the individual subdirectories for
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62 more details.
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64 All modifications made by the Roguelike Gallery are available under the same
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65 terms as the game to which they were made.
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67 --- Bugs
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69 The original authors claimed that the list of bugs was "probably infinite". If
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70 you encounter one of these, please report it on the bug tracker at
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71 https://bitbucket.org/ElwinR/rl.