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1 UltraRogue: The Ultimate Adventure in the Dungeons of Doom
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2 Copyright (C) 1985, 1986, 1992, 1993, 1995 Herb Chong
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3 All rights reserved.
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5 There are 8 different treasures to be picked up in this version of rogue.
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6 The first is on level 25 and is relatively easy to pick up. The last is
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7 on level 100 and is very difficult to get. Carrying any one of the
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8 unique treasures allows the rogue to go up the stairs, but one has to
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9 be very careful. To be a total winner, yu must pick up all 8 and
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10 return to the surface again.
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12 (note: the above may be incorrect, i think the number of levels is
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13 reduced to 50 and you have to get all 8 artifacts to go back up)
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15 The environment variable UROGUE is used to set up the default things
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16 for a player. The options that can be set are:
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18 terse: short output messages
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19 flush: flush typeahead when fighting
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20 jump: show position only at the end of running
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21 inven: inventory style
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22 askme: ask about unidentified things
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23 stopdoor: stop running when next to something interesting
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24 name: the rogue's name (string)
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25 fruit: the funny fruit used by the rogue (string)
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26 file: default savefile name (string)
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27 score: default scorefile name (string)
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28 class: default player class (string)
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30 Something like
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32 setenv UROGUE "name=George of the Jungle,fruit=peach,noterse,jump"
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34 does the obvious. The "score" option is ignored unless you start
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35 urogue in wizard mode. The class option string can have the following
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36 values: "fighter", "illus", "paladin", "ranger", "cleric", "magic",
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37 "assasin", "druid", "ninja", and "thief" and is initialized only at
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38 startup time. The "inven" option can take the values "slow", "clear",
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39 and "overwrite".
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42 About the Author
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43 ================
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45 Herb Chong is currently freelance writing and doing some teaching.
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46 If you pick up a copy of Windows Sources Magazine, you can usually
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47 find something he has written. Starting in October (1993) he will
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48 have a regular column. Herb has also just started teaching Adult Ed
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49 and undergraduate classes at Mercy College, a small and not very well
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50 known college in Westchester, NY.
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52 Acknowledgements
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53 ================
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55 The source code for Rogue 3.6 (by Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Glenn
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56 Wichman) was used as the original basis for this game. A thousand
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57 thanks go out to them and their classic adventure game of the early 1980s.
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59 Modifications of a long forgotten and bastardized nature were taken
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60 from Advanced Rogue 1.0 and/or SuperRogue. We believe that the flea market,
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61 pools, and maze levels had their origin somewhere around here.
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63 Chief Architect : Herb Chong
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65 Major Contributers: Carlton Hommel Mike Cooper Mike Laman
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66 Jason Venner Nick Kisseberth
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68 Other Contributers: Nick Flor Henry Chai Pat Place
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69 Michael Maudlin dan@ciprico edjames@ucbshadow
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70 Web Dove Tim Haapanen tecot@cmu-cs-k.arpa
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72 Any omissions or errors are purely unintentional. The above list was
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73 compiled by Nick Kisseberth from the change log in UltraRogue through
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74 1987 and from correspondense with Herb Chong.