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| date | Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:25:29 +0000 |
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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 | |
| 6 Rogue 4.2 was released by Michael Toy, Ken Arnold, and Glenn Wichman, probably | |
| 7 early in 1982. Several updates were issued, and the major version number was | |
| 8 incremented, so the last of the series was Rogue 5.2, released April 1982. | |
| 9 | |
| 10 The Roguelike Restoration Project (rogue.rogueforge.net) updated the game to | |
| 11 work on modern systems. | |
| 12 | |
| 13 The Roguelike Gallery's version has been slightly modified for compatibility | |
| 14 with dgamelaunch and security for multiple players. | |
| 15 | |
| 16 Installing | |
| 17 First, configure for your system by editing the makefile. The CFLAGS and SF | |
| 18 lines contain four defines (-DSOMETHING=filename). (This is an awkward | |
| 19 configuration method which I plan to change soon.) The defaults are for | |
| 20 a system-wide installation, which will require setgid on the binary. For a | |
| 21 single-user installation, remove SAVEDIR and set the other three to locations | |
| 22 somewhere in your home directory. (That's probably the best thing to do on | |
| 23 Windows, too.) | |
| 24 | |
| 25 Once that's finished, compile by running make. On Windows, I haven't tested | |
| 26 the Visual Studio project files; the game should build, but the scorefile | |
| 27 might not work. | |
| 28 | |
| 29 If you want multi-user play, install the rogue binary with setgid games. You | |
| 30 will need to make sure that SAVEDIR exists and that savefiles, SCOREFILE, | |
| 31 LOCKFILE and LOGFILE can be created and written by the games group (assuming | |
| 32 you want those features.) For a single user, you shouldn't need to install. | |
| 33 | |
| 34 Playing | |
| 35 For more details, see rogue.6 (the man page) and rogue.me (Michael Toy's "Guide | |
| 36 to the Dungeons of Doom"). Troff format is a little outdated, but you should | |
| 37 be able to discover something with a text editor. I plan to add versions in | |
| 38 more common formats soon. | |
| 39 | |
| 40 Contact | |
| 41 rlgallery.org admin: John "Elwin" Edwards <elwin@sdf.lonestar.org> |