Subj : Re: Retro shooters
To   : bbsing
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Mar 26 2022 07:45:29

  Re: Re: Retro shooters
  By: bbsing to Arelor on Sat Mar 26 2022 04:31 am

 > Did you build the dmgamelaunch!?
 > 
 > I really want to build one myself so I can have nethack 3.4, nethack 4, DCSS
 > and I hope to find brogue!
 > 

Dgamelaunch is an old program. I just picked the old source code up and ported
it to OpenBSD. My version has some improvements over the original.

First of all, user's passwords are stored and verified using OpenBSD's libc
functions, which are so much safer than the original crypt() implementation.

The server also uses the pledge() and unveil() facilities to place the players
in their own sandbox, so if the server is somehow hacked the player can only
mess up with his own games.

The games I have currently installed on the dgamelaunch server alre also
adapted to OpenBSD with extra sandboxing capabilities. Rogue in particular has
a gameplay bugfix which plagued the original game from the 80s.

If you want to play classic Roguelikes, the Early Roguelike Gallery is an
awesome place to start. Elwin has Rogue 3, 4 and 5, in adition to XRogue,
Advanced Rogue and Super Rogue. The latter three are close Rogue clones, with
enough differentiation from the original to be worth visiting. Super Rogue is
probably the most interesting of them.

I should get off my lazy ass and port Rogue Clone III to my dgamelaunch setup
one of these days :-(

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