History & provenance

Timeline

Source: docs/history/timeline.md

A rough chronological view of when each version surfaced and when it was restored.

Original development

Year Event
1980 Rogue prototyped (Toy, Wichman) at UCSC
1981 Rogue 3.6 released; reaches BSD distribution
1982 Rogue 5.2 released
1982–83 Super-Rogue developed at AT&T Bell Labs (Kindelberger)
1984–86 Advanced Rogue 5.x → 7.7 at AT&T Bell Labs
1985 Rogue 5.4 released; basis of most modern ports
1985–86 UltraRogue developed by Herb Chong
1985 Rog-O-Matic XIV from CMU
1989–92 XRogue developed for AT&T UNIX PC (Pietkivitch)

Restoration era

Year Event
1992 Herb Chong releases UltraRogue source; first restoration
1996 Robert Pietkivitch sends XRogue source
2000 SourceForge project group_id=4895 registered
2002 Robert Pietkivitch passes away
2004 Kindelberger provides Super-Rogue 9.0 source
2004 RogueForge.net site (CMS Made Simple) goes live
2005 First Super-Rogue 9.0-1 release; UltraRogue 1.0.7 release
2006 Advanced Rogue 5.8.2 and 7.7.1 releases
2013 Ken Arnold's Rogue 5.4 updated on SourceForge
2026 Migration to GitHub — github.com/rogueforge/...