[crossfire] building very old versions

[Matthew Giassa]

When you end up pulling up the old archives, could I please be CC'ed on 
it as well? I recall playing CF on my old Slackware3 box years back, and 
while it was color, it was very different.

Thanks!

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On 04/29/16 13:54, John Floren wrote:
> 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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