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2 <head>
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3 <title>ROGUE</title>
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7 <h1 align=center>ROGUE 3.6</h1>
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9 <hr>
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11 <h2>NAME</h2>
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12 <blockquote>
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13 <p>rogue3 &minus; Exploring The Dungeons of Doom</p>
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14 </blockquote>
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16 <h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
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18 <p><b>rogue3</b> [ -s ] [ <i>save_file</i> ] [ -n <i>playername</i> ]</p>
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19 </blockquote>
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21 <h2>DESCRIPTION</h2>
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22 <blockquote>
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24 <p align="justify"><u>Rogue</u> is a computer fantasy game with a new twist.
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25 It is crt oriented and the object of the game is to survive the attacks of various
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26 monsters and get a lot of gold, rather than the puzzle solving orientation
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27 of most computer fantasy games.</p>
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29 <p align="justify">To get started you really only need to know two commands.
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30 The command ? will give you a list of the available commands and the command /
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31 will identify the things you see on the screen.</p>
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33 <p align="justify">To win the game (as opposed to merely playing to beat
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34 other people's high scores) you must locate the Amulet of Yendor which is
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35 somewhere below the 20th level of the dungeon and get it out. Nobody has
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36 achieved this yet and if somebody does, they will probably go down in history
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37 as a hero among heros.</p>
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39 <p align="justify">When the game ends, either by your death, when you quit,
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40 or if you (by some miracle) manage to win, <u>rogue</u> will give you a list of the
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41 top-ten scorers. The scoring is based entirely upon how much gold you get.
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42 There is a 10% penalty for getting yourself killed.</p>
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44 <p align="justify">For more detailed directions, read the document <u>A Guide
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45 to the Dungeons of Doom</u>.</p>
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47 </blockquote>
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49 <h2>OPTIONS</h2>
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52 <p align="justify">If a <i>save_file</i> argument is given, <u>rogue</u> will attempt
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53 to load a previously saved game from that file.</p>
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54 <p align="justify">With the <b>-n</b> option, <u>rogue</u> will load a game with the
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55 name <i>playername</i> from a location defined at compile time. If no such
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56 game exists, it will start one.</p>
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57 <p align="justify">The <b>-s</b> option prints the top-ten scores list and exits.</p>
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60 <h2>FILES</h2>
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61 <blockquote>
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62 <table border="0" id="table1">
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64 <td>/usr/local/games/roguelike/rogue3.scr</td>
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65 <td width="50">&nbsp;</td>
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66 <td>Score file</td>
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70 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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71 <td>Default save file</td>
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74 <td>/usr/local/games/roguelike/rogue3save</td>
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75 <td>&nbsp;</td>
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76 <td>System savefiles</td>
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81 <h2>SEE ALSO</h2>
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82 <p>Michael C. Toy, <u>A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom</u></p>
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85 <p>Probably infinite. Currently known bugs are: Sometimes you are still
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86 hungry even after you eat food and sometimes you get a monster on the
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87 screen in reverse video which may or may not cause a core dump.</p>
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89 <h2>COPYRIGHT</h2>
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90 Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom<br>
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91 Copyright (C) 1980, 1981 Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Glenn Wichman <br>
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92 All rights reserved.<br>
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93 License: 3-clause BSD, see LICENSE.txt for details.
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