Please click on any photo to view in a lightbox. Use arrow keys or swipe to navigate.

rogue

Nerd achievement for 2023 - finally managed to get Rogomatic working. I used to play the Unix computer game rogue when I was in uni in the 1980s, but was never good at it - I always get killed before Level 20. I am now too old to ever master it, so Rogomatic plays my games for me.

Top 10 rogue scores after playing more than 2000 games using rogomatic - still haven’t retrieved the Amulet of Yendor:

Top Ten Scores: Score Name 1 5856 Rog-O-Matic XIV for christie: killed on level 20 by a phantom. 2 4898 Rog-O-Matic XIV for christie: killed on level 21 by a jabberwock. 3 4841 Rog-O-Matic XIV for christie: killed on level 20 by a medusa. 4 4490 Rog-O-Matic XIV for christie: killed on level 18 by starvation. 5 4444 Rog-O-Matic XIV for christie: killed on level 17 by a xeroc. 6 4319 Rog-O-Matic XIV for christie: killed on level 17 by a troll. 7 4197 Rog-O-Matic XIV for christie: killed on level 16 by a troll. 8 4010 Rog-O-Matic XIV for christie: killed on level 18 by a medusa. 9 3907 Rog-O-Matic XIV for christie: killed on level 17 by a black unicorn. 10 3830 Rog-O-Matic XIV for christie: killed on level 21 by a griffin.

Instructions

Reference: Rogue and Rog-O-Matic

Alternate:

• The roguelike archive
• RoguelikeRestorationProject
• RogueForge

Create a Docker container

Run a Debian based Docker container.

docker pull debian:buster
docker run -it --name rogue debian:buster

Prepare for building

Do this inside a terminal session in the Docker container.

apt update
apt install build-essential wget curl sudo gcc-multilib lib32ncurses5-dev vim
adduser christie
adduser christie sudo
adduser christie games
su - christie

Build and install rogue

wget https://www.anthive.com/rog/rogue5.4.4-ant-r1.1.4-src.tar.gz
tar xvzf rogue5.4.4-ant-r1.1.4-src.tar.gz
cd rogue5.4.4-ant-r1.1.4
./configure CFLAGS=-m32
make
sudo make install

Build and install rogomatic

cd ..
wget https://www.anthive.com/rog/rogomatic-r2.0.3.tar.gz
tar xvzf rogomatic-r2.0.3.tar.gz
cd rogomatic-r2.0.3
./configure CFLAGS=-m32
make
sudo make installdirs
sudo make install