Is the rogue source extant? I remember many people
spending many
hours on rogue on the 4.[12] BSD vax at Georgia Tech.
ISTR that rogue only came as a binary, there was no source.
It is; it looks like it was first distributed with 4.3BSD-Tahoe. The
sources there are listed as "public domain rogue", but I'm not sure about
the provenance of that code.
- Dan C.
Arnold
Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, Clem. I'm curious what other lore is
out there: my suspicion is
that rogue never ran on vanilla v6, but it would be great to validate.
On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:51 PM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
> I first got it on V7, as I said on our 11/70 for sure but I don’t
remember
> if we had it on the 11/60 before that.
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:07 PM Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What was the first machine to run rogue? I understand that it was
written
>> by Glenn Wichman and Michael Toy at UC
Santa Cruz ca. 1980, using the
>> `curses` library (Ken Arnold's original, not Mary Ann's rewrite).
I've seen
>> at least one place that indicates it
first ran on 6th Edition, but
that
>> doesn't sound right to me. The
first reference I can find in BSD is
in 2.79
>> ("rogue.doc"), which also
appears to be the first release to ship
curses.
>>
>> Anyone have any info? Thanks!
>>
>> - Dan C.
>>
>> --
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