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1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
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3 <head>
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4 <title>About the Gallery</title>
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5 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/main.css">
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6 </head>
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9 <h1>Roguelike Gallery</h1>
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10 <div class="nav"><a href="/">RLGallery</a> -&gt; About</div>
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12 <p>The work of the Roguelike Gallery supports three main goals.</p>
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13 <h2>Software Maintenance</h2>
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14 <p>The Gallery cares for the source code of Rogue and its descendent games, modernizing the code, keeping it working as modern C compilers get stricter, and improving portability. Maintenance also includes the never-ending quest to fix bugs.</p>
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15 <p>In pursuing this goal, the Gallery continues the work of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/*/rogue.rogueforge.net">Roguelike Restoration Project</a>.</p>
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16 <h2>Public Play</h2>
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17 <p>The Gallery also runs a public server allowing anyone to play the roguelike games.</p>
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18 <p>By providing this service, the Gallery hopes to recover some of the gameplay environment in the university computer labs of the 1980's where Rogue was born. Similar projects include <a href="https://alt.org/nethack/">nethack.alt.org</a>, the DCSS server network, and many other sites.</p>
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19 <h2>Information Source</h2>
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20 <p>The Gallery provides information about roguelike games through this Web site. This includes documentation and other articles about roguelike gameplay, history, or current events.</p>
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21 <p>There are many other sources of roguelike information on the Internet. <a href="http://www.roguebasin.com">RogueBasin</a> is one of the most well-known.</p>
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22 <h3>Early Roguelike Collection</h3>
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23 <ul>
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24 <li><a href="rogue3.html">About Rogue V3</a></li>
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25 <li><a href="rogue4.html">About Rogue V4</a></li>
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26 <li><a href="rogue5.html">About Rogue V5</a></li>
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27 <li><a href="srogue.html">About Super-Rogue</a></li>
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28 <li><a href="arogue5.html">About Advanced Rogue 5</a></li>
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29 <li><a href="arogue7.html">About Advanced Rogue 7</a></li>
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30 <li><a href="xrogue.html">About XRogue</a></li>
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31 </ul>
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32 <h3>Other information</h3>
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33 <ul>
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34 <li><a href="https://icemonster.rlgallery.org/hg/">Mercurial repository</a></li>
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35 <li><a href="ttyrec.html">ttyrec files</a></li>
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36 </ul>
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37 <h3>Server Technology</h3>
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38 <p>rlgallery.org is hosted by <a href="https://www.linode.com/">Linode</a>. The server is currently running <a href="https://getfedora.org/">Fedora</a>.</p>
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39 <p>The Gallery also makes use of <a href="https://github.com/paxed/dgamelaunch">dgamelaunch</a> and <a href="https://www.lighttpd.net/">lighttpd</a>. Score
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40 data is stored using <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a>.</p>
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41 <p>The Web player was created with <a href="https://nodejs.org/">node.js</a>.</p>
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42 <h3>Support Roguelike Games</h3>
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43 <p>The Roguelike Gallery does not currently need donations. Consider supporting <a href="https://blog.roguetemple.com/">Temple of the Roguelike</a> or purchasing <a href="http://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/">HyperRogue</a> or another fun roguelike game.</p>
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44 </div>
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45 <div class="foot"><a href="/">RLGallery</a> <a href="/recent.cgi">Recent Games</a> <a href="/scoring/high.cgi">High Scores</a> <a href="/notes/">Notes</a> <a href="https://rlgallery.org:8080/">Play</a></div>
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