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This is the source for the Roguelike Gallery's versions of Rogue and other
early roguelike games.
--- Early Roguelike Collection
The code was obtained from the Roguelike Restoration Project
(rogue.rogueforge.net). Modifications have been made mainly for compatibility
with the dgamelaunch online play system. Some bugs have also been fixed, and
the build process slightly improved. The essential flavor of a codebase half
as old as stored-program computing machinery remains unchanged.
This is the source for the Roguelike Gallery's versions of Rogue and other
early roguelike games, including Super-Rogue, Advanced Rogue, and XRogue.
The code was obtained from the Roguelike Restoration Project (Web site at
rogue.rogueforge.net). Modifications have been made for compatibility with the
dgamelaunch play system, and compliance with modern C compiler standards. Some
bugs have also been fixed, and the build process slightly improved. The
essential flavor of a codebase half as old as stored-program computing
machinery remains unchanged. The gameplay and the user interface will be kept
true to the originals.
This collection does not contain the versions of Rogue commercially released by
Epyx for DOS, the Mac, and other graphical platforms of the 1980's. Nor does
it include Rogue Clone, a reimplementation sometimes found in BSD or Linux
distributions.
--- Installation
To install on Unix (including OS X):
If you checked out the source from Mercurial, run 'autoreconf' first.
Build by running './configure' and then 'make'. If you just want to play the
game from your own user account, 'configure' won't need any options. The
games will keep the high score lists in whatever directory you run them from.
Build by running './configure' and then 'make' within each game's subdirectory.
If you only want to play the games from one user account, 'configure' won't
need any options. The games will keep the high score lists in whatever
directory you run them from.
For a multi-user installation, you will need to set the '--enable-setgid',
'--enable-savedir', '--enable-scorefile', and '--enable-logfile' options. Run
'make install' after building.
'make install' with root privileges after building.
There are other possible options; run './configure --help' for a full list.
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The games can be played via SSH or the Web at rlgallery.org.
Bugs:
--- Licensing
Each game is covered by its own license, usually some variant of the 4-clause
BSD license. See the LICENSE.TXT files in the individual subdirectories for
more details.
All modifications made by the Roguelike Gallery are available under the same
terms as the game to which they were made.
--- Bugs
The original authors claimed that the list of bugs was "probably infinite". If
you encounter one of these, please report it on the bug tracker at