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Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom version 5.4 - bug fixed ported to modern C and Unix-like systems
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We call the version 5.4.5 in order to distinguish it from older, and likely more buggy, version 5.4.4 code.
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We call this version 5.4.5 in order to distinguish it from older, and likely more buggy, version 5.4.4 code.
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For details on the release/version run `rogue -V` or type the "**v**" command into the game.
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## Source Code Origin
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**IMPORTANT NOTE**: This code is reasonably close to the original rouge
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source that used to generate the Vax/pdp binary was distributed on the
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4BSD tapes: the so called "Toy/Wichman/Arnold Vax binary" rogue game.
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**IMPORTANT NOTE**: This code is **NOT** so-called "Public domain rogue"
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rouge game that distributions such as NetBSD imported from 386bsd.
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The "Public domain rogue" was a reverse engineering attempt of the
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Vax/pdp binary game found on 4BSD tapes. As such the "Public domain rogue"
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game play differs from the "Toy/Wichman/Arnold Vax binary" rogue game in
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a number of ways.
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## TL;DR - to install
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