Early Roguelike Collection: README.txt annotate

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UltraRogue: fix a segfault related to restoring monsters. The functions for restoring saved games failed to properly correct the t_chasee pointer of monsters chasing the player. Such monsters would attempt to chase NULL instead, with predictable results.

author	John "Elwin" Edwards
date	Tue, 14 Feb 2017 20:42:33 -0500
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children	7fcb2f9f57e6

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248 182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	1 --- Early Roguelike Collection
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	2
80 c8726c9fec82 Add a top-level README.txt. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: diff changeset	3 This is the source for the Roguelike Gallery's versions of Rogue and other
248 182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	4 early roguelike games, including Super-Rogue, Advanced Rogue, and XRogue.
80 c8726c9fec82 Add a top-level README.txt. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: diff changeset	5
248 182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	6 The code was obtained from the Roguelike Restoration Project (Web site at
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	7 rogue.rogueforge.net). Modifications have been made for compatibility with the
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	8 dgamelaunch play system, and compliance with modern C compiler standards. Some
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	9 bugs have also been fixed, and the build process slightly improved. The
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	10 essential flavor of a codebase half as old as stored-program computing
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	11 machinery remains unchanged. The gameplay and the user interface will be kept
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	12 true to the originals.
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	13
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	14 This collection does not contain the versions of Rogue commercially released by
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	15 Epyx for DOS, the Mac, and other graphical platforms of the 1980's. Nor does
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	16 it include Rogue Clone, a reimplementation sometimes found in BSD or Linux
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	17 distributions.
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	18
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	19 --- Installation
80 c8726c9fec82 Add a top-level README.txt. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: diff changeset	20
122 65f3da34578a rogue4, arogue5: improve portability. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 106 diff changeset	21 To install on Unix (including OS X):
106 c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	22
c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	23 If you checked out the source from Mercurial, run 'autoreconf' first.
c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	24
248 182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	25 Build by running './configure' and then 'make' within each game's subdirectory.
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	26 If you only want to play the games from one user account, 'configure' won't
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	27 need any options. The games will keep the high score lists in whatever
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	28 directory you run them from.
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c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	30 For a multi-user installation, you will need to set the '--enable-setgid',
c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	31 '--enable-savedir', '--enable-scorefile', and '--enable-logfile' options. Run
248 182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	32 'make install' with root privileges after building.
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c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	34 There are other possible options; run './configure --help' for a full list.
c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	35
c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	36 To install on Windows:
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208 4146e2a06bc1 Update the Visual Studio project files. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 154 diff changeset	38 Visual Studio solution and project files are included. They are still being
4146e2a06bc1 Update the Visual Studio project files. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 154 diff changeset	39 tested but should work with Visual Studio 2015 on Windows 8.1.
4146e2a06bc1 Update the Visual Studio project files. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 154 diff changeset	40
4146e2a06bc1 Update the Visual Studio project files. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 154 diff changeset	41 You will need pdcurses before you can build. Create a folder called 'pdcurses'
4146e2a06bc1 Update the Visual Studio project files. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 154 diff changeset	42 in this folder and copy into it curses.h, term.h, and pdcurses.lib from the
4146e2a06bc1 Update the Visual Studio project files. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 154 diff changeset	43 pdcurses distribution.
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122 65f3da34578a rogue4, arogue5: improve portability. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 106 diff changeset	45 You can also build on Windows using MinGW. Make sure pdcurses is installed.
65f3da34578a rogue4, arogue5: improve portability. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 106 diff changeset	46 You will have to go into the '/lib' folder and copy 'libpdcurses.a' to
65f3da34578a rogue4, arogue5: improve portability. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 106 diff changeset	47 'libcurses.a', and 'libpdcurses.dll.a' to 'libcurses.dll.a'; this should get
65f3da34578a rogue4, arogue5: improve portability. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 106 diff changeset	48 fixed soon.
65f3da34578a rogue4, arogue5: improve portability. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 106 diff changeset	49
65f3da34578a rogue4, arogue5: improve portability. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 106 diff changeset	50 It is recommended to run 'configure' with the '--disable-logfile' option, and
65f3da34578a rogue4, arogue5: improve portability. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 106 diff changeset	51 'make' with the 'LDFLAGS=-static' option.
65f3da34578a rogue4, arogue5: improve portability. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 106 diff changeset	52
106 c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	53 See the individual games' subdirectories for further documentation. Some of
c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	54 the manpages may be outdated, but the guides to playing should be accurate.
80 c8726c9fec82 Add a top-level README.txt. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: diff changeset	55
c8726c9fec82 Add a top-level README.txt. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: diff changeset	56 The games can be played via SSH or the Web at rlgallery.org.
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248 182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	58 --- Licensing
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	59
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	60 Each game is covered by its own license, usually some variant of the 4-clause
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	61 BSD license. See the LICENSE.TXT files in the individual subdirectories for
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	62 more details.
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	63
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	64 All modifications made by the Roguelike Gallery are available under the same
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	65 terms as the game to which they were made.
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	66
182e26224f92 README.txt: additions and clarifications. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 241 diff changeset	67 --- Bugs
106 c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	68
c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	69 The original authors claimed that the list of bugs was "probably infinite". If
c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	70 you encounter one of these, please report it on the bug tracker at
c191a735f811 Update some of the documentation. John "Elwin" Edwards parents: 80 diff changeset	71 https://bitbucket.org/ElwinR/rl.

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