Mercurial > hg > rlgallery-misc
changeset 83:7ff6a58ad861
Add more information to the "About" page.
author | John "Elwin" Edwards |
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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> -> 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>