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 <mwe...@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+crossf...@gmail.com> > Date: 4/29/2016 22:29 (GMT+01:00) > To: Crossfire Discussion Mailing List <crossfire@metalforge.org> > Subject: Re: [crossfire] building very old versions > > > > On 29 April 2016 at 21:15, Rick Tanner <r...@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 > drnlmul...@gmail.com > > I've got a gmail account. Why haven't I become cool? > > _______________________________________________ > crossfire mailing list > crossfire@metalforge.org > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire > _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list crossfire@metalforge.org http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire