Aucbarpa.1033 net.games.rogue utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!G:ARPAVAX:arnold Fri Apr 2 14:06:26 1982 New Rogue Available (important info enclosed) Well, folks the big moment has finally arrived. Rogue 5.2 is ready for public distribution. It comes to you in a uuencoded archive file containing READ_ME Take a whild guess what THIS file is extern.h A header file for mach_dep.c Routines that can be tweaked for the local system, including scorefile opening, load checking, ... distmod.o The rest of the routines in loadable binary rogue.doc Current documentation ======================================================================= IMPORTANT NOTICE ======================================================================= If everyone had their own copy of rogue, load limiting and such would be entirely useless. Since this would result in abuse, problems with supervisory types, and probably removal of rogue from some systems (which has even happened here) the following policy will be strictly adhered to: ONLY ONE COPY PER SITE I will not send more than one copy to any given site. Since, however, this could lead to some naughty person keeping it to him/herself, I will also tell anyone at the site who requested the copy. From that point I expect that local pressures can be brought to bear on the sneaky cad who usurped that site's copy. I will also ask people who get them NOT to redistribute to friends, etc., to avoid these types of problems. If you are managing more than one site, when you request your copy you can also tell me what sites you're managing and I will not send any to that site. This is pretty hardassed, but the type of problems we've had here with this sort of thing indicate that effort should be taken along these lines for everyone's sake. ======================================================================= New features (some of these won't be new depending on the version you have): The 'D' command Tells you what kinds of potions, scrolls, etc., you have discovered so far this game. Especially useful for saved games, it allows you to know before you quaff something whether the only type of potion left (that you know about) is blindness.... The 'passgo' option Follow turnings in passages when you use capital letters to move. This eliminates a real hassle Treasure rooms (sometimes referred to as "oh, shit") Rooms full of many treasures and even more monsters ... if you live they're wonderful starvation There is now a bottom to how long you can go without food. This eliminates a problem with getting locked with floating eyes forever. Score file changed It now lists the top then scoreers, not scores (uniqued by user id). To be more precise, it allows one NON-WINNING score per uid in the file. All wins are posted. New magic things but I'll let you find them for yourself Monster detection enhancement monster detection no longer clears the screen, etc., but puts the monsters on the screen, and monters you can't see normally are put in standout mode (if your terminal has one) for several turns. Little usage improvements too numerous to mention (or remember for that matter) Bugs fixed see above comment Coin slot rogue now has a coin slot. We charge 25 cents per 30 minutes. Local rates may vary... As always, we thank you little people for making us so well known, and for all the suggestions and bug reports (including, sometimes, the fixes). For now, I have to get back to school and serious work (our project has a high muckymucks coming to see the demonstration in 1.5 months. But I won't forget you all, and I'll still play rogue... Shreldalff the Humble a.k.a. Ken P.S. When you determine who at your site will be the lucky recipient, s/he should tell me how they want the archive copied over. This is so obvious I thought I'd better say it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.