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Rogue V5: remove troublesome automatic platform detection. configure.ac used AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM to guess the GNU system description triplets. The target description was substituted into the Makefile and formatted into the filename for the binary distribution tarball. But 'target' is only intended for cross-compilers. 'host_os' might have been a better choice. The tarball filename can still be changed manually, by running make with an argument of 'DESTSYS=systemname'. Cross-compiling may be more difficult now, but I am not certain that it worked properly previously, and due to pending autoconf changes, it was likely to break anyway. The top-level config.guess and config.sub are no longer needed, but they may reappear if better support for cross-compilation is added.
author John "Elwin" Edwards
date Fri, 12 Feb 2016 14:25:47 -0500
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		       Roguelike Gallery (rlgallery.org)

This is the source code for the Roguelike Gallery's version of Rogue V3.

History
Rogue 3 was released by Michael Toy, Ken Arnold, and Glenn Wichman, probably 
late in 1980.  It went through several minor updates.  The last, Rogue 3.6, 
was completed mid-June 1981.

The Roguelike Restoration Project (rogue.rogueforge.net) updated the game to 
work on modern systems.

The Roguelike Gallery's version has been slightly modified for compatibility 
with dgamelaunch and security for multiple players.

Installing
Rogue V3 now uses autotools.  Run 'autoreconf' and then './configure' to
configure for your system.  Once that's finished, compile by running make.  (I
haven't tested the Visual Studio project files on Windows, but they should
work.)

If you don't use any options with './configure', rogue3 will keep the high
score list in whatever directory you run it from.  If you just want to play 
the game yourself, this will work.

If you want multi-user play, use the '--enable-setgid' and '--enable-savedir'
options to 'configure'.  You will also likely want to use '--enable-scorefile' 
and '--enable-logfile' to set the locations of those files.  After compiling, 
run 'make install'.

There are other possible features, including wizard (debugging) mode.  To see
the full list, run './configure --help'.

Playing
For more details, see readme36.html (contains the man page) and rogue36.html 
(Michael Toy's "Guide to the Dungeons of Doom").

Contact
rlgallery.org admin: John "Elwin" Edwards <elwin@sdf.org>