changeset 83:7ff6a58ad861

Add more information to the "About" page.
author John "Elwin" Edwards
date Sat, 24 Feb 2018 17:04:18 -0500
parents 14850d283b54
children 6bd56ca54bfa
files web/about/index.html
diffstat 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/web/about/index.html	Wed Feb 07 20:54:48 2018 -0500
+++ b/web/about/index.html	Sat Feb 24 17:04:18 2018 -0500
@@ -9,7 +9,17 @@
 <h1>Roguelike Gallery</h1>
 <div class="nav"><a href="/">rlgallery.org</a> -&gt; About</div>
 <div class="content">
-<h2>Games</h2>
+<p>The work of the Roguelike Gallery supports three main goals.</p>
+<h2>Software Maintenance</h2>
+<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>
+<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>
+<h2>Public Play</h2>
+<p>The Gallery also runs a public server allowing anyone to play the roguelike games.</p>
+<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>
+<h2>Information Source</h2>
+<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>
+<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>
+<h2>Early Roguelike Collection</h2>
 <ul>
 <li><a href="rogue3.html">About Rogue V3</a></li>
 <li><a href="rogue4.html">About Rogue V4</a></li>
@@ -21,12 +31,12 @@
 </ul>
 <h2>Other information</h2>
 <ul>
-<li><a href="https://bitbucket.org/ElwinR/rl">Mercurial repository</a></li>
+<li><a href="https://icemonster.rlgallery.org/hg/">Mercurial repository</a> <a href="https://bitbucket.org/ElwinR/rl">(backup)</a></li>
 <li><a href="ttyrec.html">ttyrec files</a></li>
 </ul>
-<h2>Site</h2>
-<p>rlgallery.org is hosted by <a href="http://www.linode.com/">Linode</a>. The server is currently running <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora.</a></p>
-<p>The Gallery also makes use of <a href="ftp://ftp.alt.org/pub/dgamelaunch/">dgamelaunch</a> and <a href="http://lighttpd.net/">lighttpd</a>.  Score
+<h2>Server Technology</h2>
+<p>rlgallery.org is hosted by <a href="http://www.linode.com/">Linode</a>. The server is currently running <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora</a>.</p>
+<p>The Gallery also makes use of <a href="ftp://ftp.alt.org/pub/dgamelaunch/">dgamelaunch</a> and <a href="http://lighttpd.net/">lighttpd</a>. Score
 data is stored using <a href="http://www.postgresql.org/">PostgreSQL</a>.</p>
 <p>The Web player was created with <a href="http://nodejs.org/">node.js</a>.</p>
 </div>