Rogue (game) - Revision history

Furey: /* External links */ Fix links. Replace deadlink with an archive capture.

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‎External links: Fix links. Replace deadlink with an archive capture.

Furey: /* Connection to NetHack */ Wikipedia says a VAX is a "minicomputer", not a "mainframe". I agree. Just call it a "computer" to avoid the argument.

2024-06-16T05:28:10Z

‎Connection to NetHack: Wikipedia says a VAX is a "minicomputer", not a "mainframe". I agree. Just call it a "computer" to avoid the argument.

Furey: /* History */ Personal computers such as the Apple ][ were widely available in 1981.

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‎History: Personal computers such as the Apple ][ were widely available in 1981.

Furey: /* History */ Michel Toy -> Michael Toy

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‎History: Michel Toy -> Michael Toy

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‎Monsters

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VannevarKush: /* History */

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 ==External links==
-*[http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/game/176 Download ''Rogue'' from DOS Games Archive]
+*[https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/rogue Download ''Rogue'' from DOS Games Archive]
 *[ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9-stable/games/bsdgames-2.4_2,1.tbz A FreeBSD binary (and also a couple of others)]
 *[http://www.rots.net/rogue/rogue.html Site with a fair amount of info on PC Rogue], including some sources in GIF format(?!).
-*[http://coredumpcentral.org/download.html Site with many downloads of different versions of rogue for windows/dos linux/unix mac and much more].
+*[https://web.archive.org/web/20220323145849/http://coredumpcentral.org/download.html Site with many downloads of different versions of rogue for windows/dos linux/unix mac and much more].
 [[Category:Roguelikes]]

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 === Connection to NetHack ===
-Rogue was written to run on VAX mainframes running BSD Unix.  The source code to Rogue wasn't originally released, meaning it couldn't be ported to other mainframe and workstation platforms.  This led to the development of various "roguelikes" which attempted to replicate the Rogue experience. These included [[Moria]] (predecessor of [[Angband]]), as well as a number or games that were developed from a leaked version of the Rogue source code (apparently at Bell Labs).  These games included [https://rlgallery.org/about/srogue.html Super-Rogue], [https://rlgallery.org/about/arogue5.html Advanced Rogue/XRogue], and [https://rlgallery.org/about/urogue.html UltraRogue].
+Rogue was written to run on VAX computers running BSD Unix.  The source code to Rogue wasn't originally released, meaning it couldn't be ported to other mainframe and workstation platforms.  This led to the development of various "roguelikes" which attempted to replicate the Rogue experience. These included [[Moria]] (predecessor of [[Angband]]), as well as a number or games that were developed from a leaked version of the Rogue source code (apparently at Bell Labs).  These games included [https://rlgallery.org/about/srogue.html Super-Rogue], [https://rlgallery.org/about/arogue5.html Advanced Rogue/XRogue], and [https://rlgallery.org/about/urogue.html UltraRogue].
 One clone was [[Jay Fenlason's Hack|Hack]], written by [[Jay Fenlason]], which became popular after being distributed over Usenet with substantial modifications by [[Andries Brouwer]].  [[Hack 1.0|Brouwer's version]] had only minor differences from Rogue (such as the presence of pets), but was both open source and free.

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 == History ==
-Rogue was first released in 1980 (five years before the release of [[Hack 1.0|Hack]]) by developers Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman and Ken Arnold (creator of the curses library).  It was inspired partly by text adventure games like Colossal Cave Adventure, and partly by tabletop role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.  Rogue 3.6 was released in April 1981, and was added to the BSD2 software collection for 4.1BSD, bringing it to a wide audience.  It became very popular in college campuses (at the time, the only places where computers were available).  It was notorious for causing terminals to be occupied and taking up CPU cycles that could be used for productive work.
+Rogue was first released in 1980 (five years before the release of [[Hack 1.0|Hack]]) by developers Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman and Ken Arnold (creator of the curses library).  It was inspired partly by text adventure games like Colossal Cave Adventure, and partly by tabletop role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.  Rogue 3.6 was released in April 1981, and was added to the BSD2 software collection for 4.1BSD, bringing it to a wide audience.  It became very popular in college campuses.  It was notorious for causing terminals to be occupied and taking up CPU cycles that could be used for productive work.
 Version 5.2 (which is [https://rlgallery.org/about/rogue4.html commonly called v4], released in 1982, was the final version in the "3.x" series of the game.

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 == History ==
-Rogue was first released in 1980 (five years before the release of [[Hack 1.0|Hack]]) by developers Michel Toy, Glenn Wichman and Ken Arnold (creator of the curses library).  It was inspired partly by text adventure games like Colossal Cave Adventure, and partly by tabletop role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.  Rogue 3.6 was released in April 1981, and was added to the BSD2 software collection for 4.1BSD, bringing it to a wide audience.  It became very popular in college campuses (at the time, the only places where computers were available).  It was notorious for causing terminals to be occupied and taking up CPU cycles that could be used for productive work.
+Rogue was first released in 1980 (five years before the release of [[Hack 1.0|Hack]]) by developers Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman and Ken Arnold (creator of the curses library).  It was inspired partly by text adventure games like Colossal Cave Adventure, and partly by tabletop role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.  Rogue 3.6 was released in April 1981, and was added to the BSD2 software collection for 4.1BSD, bringing it to a wide audience.  It became very popular in college campuses (at the time, the only places where computers were available).  It was notorious for causing terminals to be occupied and taking up CPU cycles that could be used for productive work.
 Version 5.2 (which is [https://rlgallery.org/about/rogue4.html commonly called v4], released in 1982, was the final version in the "3.x" series of the game.

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 |Emu           ||   0 || M   || 2    ||  1d8 ||  7 || 1d2  || 1-6 || || Jackal
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-|Venus Flytrap ||   0 || M   || 80   ||  8d8 ||  3 || special || 15-22 || Traps player* || Violet Fungus
+|Venus Flytrap ||   0 || M   || 80   ||  8d8 ||  3 || special* || 15-22 || Traps player* || Violet Fungus
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 |Griffin       ||  20 || MFR || 2000 || 13d8 ||  2 || 4d3/3d5 || 18-26 || || Higher level monster replacing Gnome

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 Version 5.2 (which is [https://rlgallery.org/about/rogue4.html commonly called v4], released in 1982, was the final version in the "3.x" series of the game.
-In 1983, Rogue 5.3 was released, which is [https://rlgallery.org/about/rogue5.html considered the first "v5" release.]  Version 5.4.(4?) is the last version released.  Monster names were then changed in order to avoid copyrights issue, because of the commercial release of Rogue for MS-DOS on the IBM PC around 1983-1984.  The company Epyx ported Rogue to Atari ST, TRS-80, Macintosh, and Amiga, and Rogue was ultimately ported to a number of other platforms.  Rogue was never very popular on home computers, but did manage to develop a niche following among those who discovered it...
+In 1983, Rogue 5.3 was released, which is [https://rlgallery.org/about/rogue5.html considered the first "v5" release.]  Version 5.4.(4?) is the last version released.  In 5.3, monster names were changed to avoid copyright issues, because of the commercial release of Rogue for MS-DOS on the IBM PC around 1983-1984.  The company Epyx ported Rogue to Atari ST, TRS-80, Macintosh, and Amiga, and Rogue was ultimately ported to a number of other platforms.  Rogue was never very popular on home computers, but did manage to develop a niche following among those who discovered it...
 === Connection to NetHack ===

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 |Venus Flytrap ||   0 || M   || 80   ||  8d8 ||  3 || special* || 15-22 || Traps player || Violet Fungus
 |-
-|Griffin       ||  20 || MFR || 2000 || 13d8 ||  2 || 4d3/3d5 || 18-26 || || Higher level monster replacing Gnome?
+|Griffin       ||  20 || MFR || 2000 || 13d8 ||  2 || 4d3/3d5 || 18-26 || || Higher level monster replacing Gnome
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 |Hobgoblin     ||   0 || M   || 3    ||  1d8 ||  5 || 1d8 || 1-8 || ||