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Rogue 3.6.3

Rogue 3.6.3 Linux Binary
Rogue 3.6.3 DJGPP Binary (DOS)
Rogue 3.6.3 Windows Binary

Rogue 3.6.3 Source Code (r1043) 

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History

Earliest references to the 3.x series of rogue

3.4 05/21/81 binary, bsd28 CSRG
    07/12/81 docs, bsd28 CSRG
    04/16/81 internal vers
3.5 12/17/81 usenet net.games reference
3.6 04/21/81 internal vers (bsd2.9.5 CSRG)
    06/16/81 internal source
    08/02/83 bsd2.9.5 CSRG
    09/07/81 usenet net.games reference
3.7 10/24/81 usenet net.games reference
3.8 09/07/81 usenet net.games reference
3.9 07/02/82 usenet net.games reference

Source Material

Rogue 3.6 NMT [rogue3.6.nmt.tar, 6/23/84]
Rogue 3.6 BRL [rogue-3.1.tar, 08/05/82, 5/31/82]
Rogue 3.6 CMU (rogomatic) [rog36.tar.Z, 03/08/87, 9/23/82]

Source Reconstruction
(best guess what the original source looked like on or about 6/16/81)

Rogue 3.6 Reconstruction [rogue3.6.tar.gz, 6/16/81, 4/21/81]

Source Restoration
(modified and I/O enhanced for modern operating systems and compilers)

Rogue 3.6.3 [rogue3.6.3.tar.gz, 08/27/06]

Restoration Target Operating Systems

Windows (console) built with Visual Studio Express 2012
Windows (console) built with Visual Studio Express 2010
Windows (console) built with MingW
Linux built with Redhat Enterprise Linux 6
Linux built with Debian 6.0
DOS built with DJGPP
Mac OS/X built with xcode

Latest News

August 27, 2006 10:33pm - 3.6.3

  • Added keypad support
  • Added native Windows (console) binaries
  • Removed cygwin, aix and interix binary builds from web distribution
  • Cleaned up save game format (save format incompatible with previous version)
  • Cleaned up score file format (score files incompatible with previous version)
  • Many bug fixes

February 6, 2005 7:22pm - 3.6.2

Fixed DJGPP generation of groff formatted documentation and finally posted the distribution.


November 9, 2004 6:35pm - 3.6.2


Added support for Cygwin and SFU/Interix over Windows and updated code for gcc v3 and other minor changes from past few years of operating system/compiler evolution.

April 30, 2000 3:09pm - And so it begins...

First re-release Rogue v3.6.1

Rogue 3.6 was released on our about 06/16/1981 and was the first version of Rogue ever widely released. It spawned an entire genre of games now cleverly referred to as "roguelikes."


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