[crossfire] building very old versions

[John Floren]

Yes, I do remember that I only ran one command to start the game...

As for what I'm looking for, I liked the old maps (when I tried
playing later, found the new maps kinda sprawling), the old graphics,
and the old gameplay... It's all probably nostalgia but I liked it
better when there were fewer classes and just generally fewer options
:)

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 2:47 PM, mwedel <mwedel at sonic.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Neil Muller
> drnlmuller at gmail.com
>
> I've got a gmail account. Why haven't I become cool?
>
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