Is there a place where Old Retired Ports go to die?

wpostma

wpostma

I'm in a nostalgic mood and I was searching for some stuff I used to have on FreeBSD back in the old days, I think around version 3.0, including Rogue, that Rogue-like game that some people still like. I think it's hilarious that there's a MacOS X port of the Free BSD sources on sourceforge, but I can't find hide or hair of the REAL BSD Rogue game. It's embarassing. I mean, FreeBSD9 still has caesar in /usr/games, and if someone took that out, I'd say, it's game over, time to move to linux. (Ha ha, only serious.)

Anyways, I used to use FreeBSD a LOT back in the pre-4.0 era, and I've just come back to try it again, and I'm loving it.

It seems like a lot of old stuff like that is gone. If someone just wants to grab an old package, and try to build it on FreeBSD 9, is there somewhere where I can get all that stuff? I'm guessing it would be FTP not HTTP accessible.

Warren
 
Hello and welcome!

I've never played Rogue or any similar game so I may be wrong, but there seems to be many clones available in the ports tree. Perhaps you'll find something to your liking.
 
Under CVS there used to be a place called the attic for dead ports. Quickly searching I can't seem to find that now.

Failing that you might have to look around for an OLD ports repository. I started FreeBSD with the 3.x series...I might have a boot floppy laying around in some corner of my basement, :)
 
rogue is in bsdgames!? yay.

Wow. Okay. The package description doesn't even SAY the name "rogue" so a ports search comes up empty.

This is a serious breach of BSD Cultural Heritage Visibility (TM). Where do I go to log a bug?

W
:-)
 
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