[crossfire] building very old versions

Hi! I have some very fond memories of installing Crossfire from a Redhat 6.2 disk way back in the day; I seem to remember the game being monochrome, with much simpler maps, but still very fun. I was hoping someone might have some tips on what revisions I should check out in the svn repo (I'm not

Re: [crossfire] building very old versions

Near as I can guess, Redhat 6.2 (released April 2000) would be just about situated to have shipped the CVS code from 1999... "svn log" shows me checkins going back that far. Maybe the best thing to do is install 6.2 in a VM and just grab the packages... or maybe install a similarly-aged Debian / S

Re: [crossfire] building very old versions

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

Re: [crossfire] building very old versions

I got the client and server building from these with very little hacking. I had to prevent it from building crossedit, which was having some issues with includes. Here's it running (the window is X-forwarded from my Linux box): http://i.imgur.com/n9PNRgG.png Are there any copyright/licensing issu

Re: [crossfire] building very old versions

Wow, very cool! On Jul 6, 2016 17:02, "Rick Tanner" wrote: > All available release files I had access to or were given (thank you > mwedel!) are available at: > > http://crossfire.real-time.com/download/archive/ > > I also discovered I had a very old copy of historic content from > ftp.ifi.uio.no