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Expand the history pages for Super-Rogue and Advanced Rogue 5.
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date | Sat, 03 Apr 2021 11:12:36 -0400 |
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--- a/web/about/srogue.html Fri Apr 02 22:59:18 2021 -0400 +++ b/web/about/srogue.html Sat Apr 03 11:12:36 2021 -0400 @@ -9,12 +9,17 @@ <h1>Super-Rogue</h1> <div class="nav"><a href="/">RLGallery</a> -> <a href="/about/">About</a> -> Super-Rogue</div> <div class="content"> -<p>Super-Rogue was developed from <a href="rogue3.html">Rogue 3.6</a> by Robert Kindelberger, who added many new monsters and items. The -final version, numbered 9.0, was completed in 1984.</p> +<p>This game is a version of Super-Rogue 9.0.</p> +<h2>History</h2> +<p>Super-Rogue came into being around 1982, when some employees at AT&T Bell Labs began modifying a copy of the <a href="rogue3.html">Rogue 3.6</a> source code. Robert D. Kindelberger led the effort to expand Rogue into a new game. Super-Rogue included new monsters for all the lowercase letters, and deepened the dungeon to 35 levels. The final version, numbered 9.0, was completed in July 1984.</p> <p>Some of Super-Rogue's features, such as shops, mazes, and cockatrices, appeared in the original Hack at about the same time.</p> -<p>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180418191859/http://rogue.rogueforge.net/">Roguelike Restoration Project</a> updated Super-Rogue to run on modern systems.</p> -<p>The Roguelike Gallery modified Super-Rogue to work with rlgallery.org's system, fixed a few bugs which made winning easy, and added support for the arrow keys.</p> -<p>The source code is <a href="/files/roguelike-r109-src.tgz">available for download</a>.</p> +<p>In 2004, Robert Kindelberger supplied a copy of the source code to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180418191859/http://rogue.rogueforge.net/">Roguelike Restoration Project</a>. The RRP updated Super-Rogue to run on modern systems, issuing a release numbered "9.0-1" in March 2005.</p> +<p>The Roguelike Gallery began maintaining Super-Rogue in 2010, fixing a few bugs which made winning easy, and adding support for the arrow keys.</p> +<h2>More Information</h2> +<ul> +<li>The Roguelike Restoration Project's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180417234609/http://rogue.rogueforge.net/super-rogue-9-0/">Super-Rogue page</a></li> +<li>An <a href="http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2008/06/column_play_superrogue_banishe.php">@Play article</a> describing the version released by the RRP</li> +</ul> </div> <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> </body>