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From: ix408@sdcc6.UUCP (Cris Rys)
Newsgroups: net.games.emp
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Langston(?) posting
Message-ID: <2100@sdcc6.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Jun-85 13:12:23 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  2 13:12:23 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Jun-85 04:16:27 EDT
Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center
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Summary: rogue sources *ARE* distributed


In article <151@jendeh.UUCP>, arash@jendeh.UUCP (Arash Farmanfarmaian) writes:

>  And yes Empire could be a good game, if we had the source to get rid of 
>  bugs. The same thing applies to another perennial favorite: rogue. 
>  Loosing a fantastic games because the binary goes berserk went you have
>  a full pack is not my idea of fun. 

Incase you didn't know, sources of rouge & srogue are distributed to
certain individuals who can give a good reason why they they should
have it, such as super-users, root, etc...
Probably every system has sources for rogue & srogue locked away
someplace. Why not have it public you ask? Because then some bozo
would play the game in the middle of the day when everyone else is
trying to get some serious work done.
Why PSL does not distribute the game to anyone I don't really know.
I know a person here at UCSD who has gone to a lot of trouble to
uncomile to binary to C in order to remove bugs. If PSL distibuted
the sources it would save him and many others tons of aggravation
and time.

Cris Rys