[crossfire] building very old versions

[mwedel]

I have all the versions (well, at least going back to the 0.89s I think) on my computer and can dig them up at some point.
Note that even XPM mode were color, though for quite a while that existed side by side with the XBM mode which were two color.
A question would be what exactly are you looking for in those old versions? The retro graphics, old maps, old gameplay, etc?
The old versions did not have a separate client, though I would expect that the old server should compile without much difficulty.  I can't recall anything too platform specific.  The biggest problem might be deprecated function calls in the various libraries.    
-------- Original message --------From: Neil Muller <drnlmuller+crossfire at gmail.com> Date: 4/29/2016  22:29  (GMT+01:00) To: Crossfire Discussion Mailing List <crossfire at metalforge.org> Subject: Re: [crossfire] building very old versions 


On 29 April 2016 at 21:15, Rick Tanner <rick at tanners.org> wrote:
>
> Sounds like you are looking for source code that was in place before
> Crossfire started to use revision control (originally cvs from 1999 to
> 2006, now svn.) So, it is not possible to cvs/svn revert back to the XPM
> days.
>
> Looking back at my collected archive or releases, I don't have anything
> before 0.97.0 -- it was before I became involved with the project.
>
> http://crossfire.real-time.com/download/archive/
>

You can dig up crossfire 0.95 out of the debian archive -
http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-2.1/main/source/games/ - which is a bit before the start of the sourceforge CVS history.
I'm under the impression that crossfire made it into the FreeBSD releases before it got picked up by most of the Linux distributions, so it may be possible to pull older versions out of those archives if one is so inclined.

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