Remains of the Crashed Plane (or: “What happened to R2?”)August 18th, 2008 by Plat
If the title makes no sense to you, the rest probably won’t either.
Now, for the rest of you who might be looking for Rock 2: Crashed Plane stuff, here’s what’s left.
Q: Where can I play Rock 2?
A: Dillfrog.com no longer hosts the game, but other generous fellows seem to still host the game. If you’re feeling lucky, try Mindreader’s server (telnet host: rock2mimic.tzo.com, port: 4000)
Q: How can I get the Rock 2 source code?
A: It’s pretty ugly; I never wrote it expecting it to be released. But it’s released on SourceForge as “RockServ 2″. Instructions are on the RockServ Wiki
Q: How can I get the Rock 1 source code?
A: It is not released yet, and may not be ever. It’s that bad. But if it were released, it’d be on SourceForge’s RockServ wiki as well.
Not finding what you wanted? Leave a message in the comments and I’ll update the FAQ.
September 1st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
We should still make cpan packages!
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:24 am
R1: Boo =( Well plat, you know if you change your mind i am more then willing to take over the reigns.
September 16th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Ok, so I am trying to get Rock running on my server through cPanel. I grabbed up the CVS from rockserv at sourceforge.
I am having a couple problems though – I can’t SSH into the server because I don’t have that access. How do I run a perl script without SSH? I set up the mysql database and all that. . .
Second and third problems are similar: where are the auth.pm and rock_prefs.pm? Gone completely? They aren’t in the CVS or SVC. Are they still required or did something change and the current install wiki out of date?
September 20th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Great, thanks. Well, I was going to open a good server for the public for Rock, but I don’t get moderated and it doesn’t matter apparently. I got other things to do.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:47 am
someone should consider putting up a website and getting ppl to play this again. i would but i know nothing about that stuff best i could do was spam game forums with the connect info. its too bad i really wanna play this again but its just not the same without the population it used to have.
October 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
my computer won’t take the race (like when i click the race number it won’t go in can you help me?)
December 29th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Wow…. this brings back a fond memory or two
January 8th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
its hosted at rock2mimic.tzo port 4000 no web site just hosted
May 31st, 2009 at 3:40 pm
How to i exit the first room? Its very confusing in cmd wtf is there another place to play it where i can see things?
November 8th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
I have been trying to set up a rock2 server however the problem when I start the server i get the error cannot tie help file [help.r2] no such file or directory. Where can I find the .r2 and rdb files required because they arent in the source package.
thank you
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Do you happen to still have the old tracks you did for ROCK? I only have real audio format and I’m having a hard time converting them to a modern format (mp3)… whatever “album” consisted of the great american wig out, what i’ve become, crashed plane, etc.
November 24th, 2009 at 9:06 am
@Master:
Some of those songs are at http://noise.dillfrog.com/ (e.g. Cold Dub is at http://noise.dillfrog.com/songs/170)
If you want, you’re welcome to email me a full list and I’ll dig up what I can. (Bonus points if you send me the RAs, since some names have changed.)