Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-22 Thread Antonio Carlini
On 20/11/16 05:39, Richard Loken wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Antonio Carlini wrote: 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. Now THAT is interesting! I wo

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-22 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> > There's a Rogue for the Alpha Micro. I don't have source for it either, > > but it runs very well. > > What is an Alpha Micro? http://ampm.floodgap.com/ It's hosted on one! -- personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Syste

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-21 Thread Richard Loken
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Cameron Kaiser wrote: There's a Rogue for the Alpha Micro. I don't have source for it either, but it runs very well. What is an Alpha Micro? -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : t

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-20 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> There is a rogue that runs on VAX/VMS as I definitely played it a little back > in the day. There's a Rogue for the Alpha Micro. I don't have source for it either, but it runs very well. http://ampm.floodgap.com/www/downld.htm -- personal: http://

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-20 Thread Peter Coghlan
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Antonio Carlini wrote: 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. It is probably possible to translate the VAX executable to an Alpha

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-19 Thread Richard Loken
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Antonio Carlini wrote: 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. Now THAT is interesting! I wonder where it went to? -- Richard Loke

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-19 Thread Antonio Carlini
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 t

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-19 Thread Alan Perry
On 11/19/16 11:33 AM, Al Kossow wrote: On 11/19/16 11:00 AM, David Brownlee wrote: On 19 November 2016 at 13:58, Al Kossow wrote: 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/lo

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-19 Thread Al Kossow
On 11/19/16 11:00 AM, David Brownlee wrote: > On 19 November 2016 at 13:58, Al Kossow wrote: > >> >> >> 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: >>> >>

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-19 Thread David Brownlee
On 19 November 2016 at 13:58, Al Kossow wrote: > > > 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

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-19 Thread Alan Perry
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

Re: Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-19 Thread Al Kossow
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

Rogue: Mctesq was here

2016-11-18 Thread Richard Loken
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