19 Nov
2016
19 Nov
'16
1:05 a.m.
So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been cleaning up the office
and my Redhat Linux workstation and in /usr/local/src I found:
linuxrogue-0.3.7-roguecentral.tar
So I exploded the tar ball and compiled it and it crashed so I carted it
over to one of our Tru64 Unix Alpha boxes, took the 'g' off "gcc" in
the
makefile, used sed to change ncurses to curses where ever it could be
found and compiled it. AND IT WORKS SWELL!
Rogue is as addictive today as it was in 1982 on the VAX-11/780 running
4.2bsd. I think I will port it to OpenVMS and run it on my AS4100.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those
Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!"
** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black
19 Nov
19 Nov
8:58 a.m.
On 11/18/16 10:05 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been
cleaning up the office
and my Redhat Linux workstation and in /usr/local/src I found:
linuxrogue-0.3.7-roguecentral.tar
still on the net
http://www.coredumpcentral.org/download.html
2 p.m.
On 19 November 2016 at 13:58, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 11/18/16 10:05 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
Most Linux distributions have a version (possibly not exactly the same) in
'bsdgames-nonfree'.
bsdgames is a copy of a recent set of BSD games, the ones with odd licences
are in the -nonfree.
For those of us perverse enough to be running newer BSD on vintage
hardware, its in /usr/games :-p
For slightly later I always had a soft spot for ularn or omega (though
nethack would be the reference :)
David
So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been
cleaning up the office
and my Redhat Linux workstation and in /usr/local/src I found:
linuxrogue-0.3.7-roguecentral.tar
still on the net
http://www.coredumpcentral.org/download.html
2:33 p.m.
On 11/19/16 11:00 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
On 19 November 2016 at 13:58, Al Kossow <aek at
bitsavers.org> wrote:
3.7 is what is significant. Toy was very protective of the sources back in the day
so the source to the really early versions were hard to find at the time. I did
the snoopy dance when I found the source for the color version on the SGI IRIS.
How many people remember Rog-O-Matic from CMU?
On 11/18/16 10:05 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
Most Linux distributions have a version So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been
cleaning up the office
and my Redhat Linux workstation and in /usr/local/src I found:
linuxrogue-0.3.7-roguecentral.tar
still on the net
http://www.coredumpcentral.org/download.html
4:35 p.m.
On 11/19/16 11:33 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
On 11/19/16 11:00 AM, David Brownlee wrote:
One of the guys that I went to college with at New Mexico Tech, Ed
Fries, spent a lot
of time running rog-o-matic. It seemed like he was working on it, but I
don't know
what he was doing with it other than bringing the VAX to its knees when
the rest of
us were trying to get class assignments done on the 750.
alan
On 19 November 2016 at 13:58, Al Kossow <aek
at bitsavers.org> wrote:
3.7 is what is significant. Toy was
very protective of the sources back in the day
so the source to the really early versions were hard to find at the time. I did
the snoopy dance when I found the source for the color version on the SGI IRIS.
How many people remember Rog-O-Matic from CMU?
On 11/18/16 10:05 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
Most Linux distributions have a version So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been
cleaning up the office
and my Redhat Linux workstation and in /usr/local/src I found:
linuxrogue-0.3.7-roguecentral.tar
still on the net
http://www.coredumpcentral.org/download.html
10:26 a.m.
Of course, it is better to run it on vintage hardware to get the full experience, but
there is an Java applet version that runs in a browser -
http://www.hexatron.com/rogue/
There is also an iPhone port (last updated in 2008, so that's vintage as far as iOS,
right?).
alan
On Nov 18, 2016, at 22:05, Richard Loken <rlloken
at telus.net> wrote:
So I am 35 days from retirement and I have been cleaning up the office
and my Redhat Linux workstation and in /usr/local/src I found:
linuxrogue-0.3.7-roguecentral.tar
So I exploded the tar ball and compiled it and it crashed so I carted it
over to one of our Tru64 Unix Alpha boxes, took the 'g' off "gcc" in
the
makefile, used sed to change ncurses to curses where ever it could be
found and compiled it. AND IT WORKS SWELL!
Rogue is as addictive today as it was in 1982 on the VAX-11/780 running
4.2bsd. I think I will port it to OpenVMS and run it on my AS4100.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those
Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!"
** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black
7:39 p.m.
On 19/11/16 06:05, Richard Loken wrote:
Rogue is as addictive today as it was in 1982 on the
VAX-11/780 running
4.2bsd. I think I will port it to OpenVMS and run it on my AS4100.
There is a rogue that runs on VAX/VMS as I definitely played it a little
back in the day.
I don't think I had the sources, just a .EXE, so that may not work so
well for Alpha.
Antonio
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