Glenn wrote up a brief history where he says it was first distributed with 4.2bsd.
@ Fortune Systems in 1983/83 we had 3-4 college students working for a contract company Santa Cruz Operations(?) doing testing for us. He was one of them and later we hired him full time. I didn’t interact with him much though and once I quit Fortune I lost track of him. I think initially we had only a rogue binary on 4.1 running on VAX780 but I do not recall if he brought it to Fortune. Someone later ported it to the Fortune machine. I used to play Rogue while waiting for kernel compiles to finish. A few years ago I got it on FreeBSD and my muscle memory came back 100%!
Is the rogue source extant? I remember many people spending many
hours on rogue on the 4.[12] BSD vax at Georgia Tech.
ISTR that rogue only came as a binary, there was no source.
It is; it looks like it was first distributed with 4.3BSD-Tahoe. The sources there are listed as "public domain rogue", but I'm not sure about the provenance of that code.
- Dan C.
Arnold
Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Clem. I'm curious what other lore is out there: my suspicion is
> that rogue never ran on vanilla v6, but it would be great to validate.
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:51 PM Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
> > I first got it on V7, as I said on our 11/70 for sure but I don’t remember
> > if we had it on the 11/60 before that.
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 10:07 PM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> What was the first machine to run rogue? I understand that it was written
> >> by Glenn Wichman and Michael Toy at UC Santa Cruz ca. 1980, using the
> >> `curses` library (Ken Arnold's original, not Mary Ann's rewrite). I've seen
> >> at least one place that indicates it first ran on 6th Edition, but that
> >> doesn't sound right to me. The first reference I can find in BSD is in 2.79
> >> ("rogue.doc"), which also appears to be the first release to ship curses.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any info? Thanks!
> >>
> >> - Dan C.
> >>
> >> --
> > Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
> >