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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 V4.
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5 History
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6 Rogue 4.2 was released by Michael Toy, Ken Arnold, and Glenn Wichman, probably
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7 early in 1982. Several updates were issued, and the major version number was
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8 incremented, so the last of the series was Rogue 5.2, released April 1982.
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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 On Unix, you can use the "./configure && make && make install" method. If
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18 you don't need a system-wide installation, you should be able to ignore all
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19 the options for "configure" and leave off the "make install".
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21 If you want multi-user play, run configure with the proper options ("configure
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22 --help" will explain what they do.) The important ones are savedir (where
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23 saved games are stored), scorefile (the high score list), and logfile (the log
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24 of all games played).
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26 On Windows, I haven't tested the Visual Studio project files; the game should
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27 build, but the scorefile might not work.
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29 Playing
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30 For more details, see rogue4.6 (the man page) and rogue4.me (Michael
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31 Toy's "Guide to the Dungeons of Doom"). Troff format is a little outdated, but
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32 you should be able to discover something with a text editor. I plan to add
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33 versions in more common formats soon.
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35 Contact
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36 rlgallery.org admin: John "Elwin" Edwards <elwin@sdf.lonestar.org>