Subj : Re: what's classic now?
To   : Dan Cross
From : Richard Falken
Date : Thu Jul 01 2021 06:13 pm

  Re: Re: what's classic now?
  By: Dan Cross to Richard Falken on Fri Jul 02 2021 03:01 am

 >  RF> By the way, the original Rogue, the namer of the roguelike game genre,
 >  RF> was originally developped on a PDP-11 running Unix V6.
 > 
 > That doesn't sound right to me.  Rogue began life on a VAX
 > running BSD Unix, not 6th Edition.  Adventure almost certainly
 > made an appearance on the PDP-11 pretty early on, perhaps in
 > the Research days, but rogue would have come later; after all,
 > it uses curses.
 > 

I sourced that information from the Early Roguelike Gallery. John Elwin is
trying very hard to keep a living museum of early rogue(likes) so if you have a
valid source for that claim, he will LOVE to hear about it and make the
necessary corrections.

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