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RogueForge

The Roguelike Restoration Project

The umbrella home for restoring and maintaining classic Rogue and its direct descendants — BSD Rogue 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, Advanced Rogue, Super-Rogue, UltraRogue, XRogue, Rog-O-Matic, and friends. Source archaeology, recovered binaries, modern ports, and documentation.

About this project

RogueForge is the umbrella home for restoring and maintaining classic Rogue and its direct descendants — the BSD lineage (Rogue 3.x, 4.x, 5.x), the AT&T Bell Labs branch (Advanced Rogue, Super-Rogue), Herb Chong's UltraRogue, Robert Pietkivitch's XRogue, and Andrew Appel & Leonard Hamey's Rog-O-Matic robot.

The original rogueforge.net site hosted this work from 2004 onward, running on a CMS Made Simple install on Debian Squeeze. This GitHub Pages site is its successor — same content, modern hosting, plus first-class links into the per-game source repositories that now live under the rogueforge GitHub organization.

What lives here

  • The games — one page per restored version, with recovered binaries, source releases, restoration notes, and a link to the authoritative GitHub repo.
  • Documentation — Yendor's Guide, the Vade-Mecum, and per-game player manuals.
  • History & provenance — where each version was rescued from: the BSD CSRG distribution discs, the UTexas FTP archive, the defunct UIUC anonymous-FTP site, personal correspondence with the original authors.
  • About — project goals, the migration from RogueForge.net and SourceForge to GitHub, contact, license.

The lineage at a glance

                  Rogue 3.x (Toy/Arnold/Wichman, UCSC/UCB)
                       |
                       v
            +----------+-----------+--------------+
            |          |           |              |
        Rogue 4.x   Rogue 5.x   Super-Rogue    Advanced Rogue
        (Kenneth Arnold,         (R. Kindelberger,  (AT&T Bell Labs,
         UCB)                     AT&T BL)          Morgan/Dalka et al.)
                       |                            |
                       |                            v
                       |                       UltraRogue
                       |                       (Herb Chong)
                       v                            |
                  Rog-O-Matic                       v
                  (Appel/Hamey/Mauldin)       Advanced Rogue 7.7
                  CMU                              |
                                                   v
                                              XRogue 8.0
                                              (Robert Pietkivitch,
                                               AT&T UNIX PC)

Contact

Questions, source contributions, or rescued artifacts: nkissebe+yendor@gmail.com.