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| 6 | |
| 7 <h1 align=center><b>A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom</b></h1> | |
| 8 | |
| 9 <h2 align=center><i>Michael C. Toy</i></h2> | |
| 10 | |
| 11 <h3 align=center> | |
| 12 Computer Systems Research Group<br> | |
| 13 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science<br> | |
| 14 University of California<br> | |
| 15 Berkeley, California 94720</h3> | |
| 16 | |
| 17 <h2 align=center><i>ABSTRACT</i></h2> | |
| 18 | |
| 19 <blockquote> | |
| 20 <blockquote> | |
| 21 <p align="justify"><font size="2">Rogue is a visual CRT based fantasy game which runs under the | |
| 22 UNIX timesharing system. This paper describes how to play rogue, and gives a few hints for | |
| 23 those who might otherwise get | |
| 24 lost in the Dungeons of Doom.</font></p> | |
| 25 </blockquote> | |
| 26 </blockquote> | |
| 27 | |
| 28 <h2 align="justify"><b>1. Introduction</b></h2> | |
| 29 | |
| 30 <p align="justify">You have just finished your years as a | |
| 31 student at the local fighter’s guild. After much | |
| 32 practice and sweat you have finally completed your training | |
| 33 and are ready to embark upon a perilous adventure. As a test | |
| 34 of your skills, the local guildmasters have sent you into | |
| 35 the Dungeons of Doom. Your task is to return with the Amulet | |
| 36 of Yendor. Your reward for the completion of this task will | |
| 37 be a full membership in the local guild. In addition, you | |
| 38 are allowed to keep all the loot you bring back from the | |
| 39 dungeons.</p> | |
| 40 | |
| 41 <p align="justify">In preparation for your journey, you are | |
| 42 given an enchanted sword, taken | |
| 43 from a dragon’s hoard in the far off Dark Mountains. | |
| 44 You are also outfitted with elf-crafted armor and given | |
| 45 enough food to reach the dungeons. You say goodbye to family | |
| 46 and friends for what may be the last time and head up the | |
| 47 road.</p> | |
| 48 | |
| 49 <p align="justify">You set out on your way to the dungeons and | |
| 50 after several days of uneventful travel, you see the | |
| 51 ancient ruins that mark the entrance to the Dungeons of | |
| 52 Doom. It is late at night so you make camp at the entrance | |
| 53 and spend the night sleeping under the open skies. In the | |
| 54 morning you gather your sword, put on your armor, eat what | |
| 55 is almost your last food and enter the | |
| 56 dungeons.</p> | |
| 57 | |
| 58 <h2 align="justify"><b>2. What is going on here?</b></h2> | |
| 59 | |
| 60 <p align="justify">You have just begun a game of rogue. Your | |
| 61 goal is to grab as much treasure as you can, find the Amulet | |
| 62 of Yendor, and get out of the Dungeons of Doom alive. On the | |
| 63 screen, a map of where you have been and what you have seen | |
| 64 on the current dungeon level is kept. As you explore more of | |
| 65 the level, it appears on the screen in front of | |
| 66 you.</p> | |
| 67 | |
| 68 <p align="justify">Rogue differs from most computer fantasy | |
| 69 games in that it is screen oriented. Commands are all one or | |
| 70 two keystrokes<sup>1 </sup>and the | |
| 71 results of your commands are displayed graphically on the | |
| 72 screen rather than being explained in words<sup>2</sup>.</p> | |
| 73 | |
| 74 <p align="justify">Another major difference between rogue and | |
| 75 other computer fantasy games is that once you have solved | |
| 76 all the puzzles in a standard fantasy game, it has lost most | |
| 77 of its excitement and it ceases to be fun. Rogue on the | |
| 78 other hand generates a new dungeon every time you play it | |
| 79 and even the author finds it an entertaining and exciting | |
| 80 game.</p> | |
| 81 | |
| 82 <h2 align="justify"><b>3. What do all those things on the screen mean?</b></h2> | |
| 83 | |
| 84 <p align="justify">In order to understand what is going on in | |
| 85 rogue you have to first get some grasp of what rogue is | |
| 86 doing with the screen. The rogue screen is intended to | |
| 87 replace the “You can see ...” descriptions of | |
| 88 standard fantasy games. Here is a sample of what a | |
| 89 rogue screen might look like.</p> | |
| 90 | |
| 91 <div align="center"><pre> | |
| 92 --------------------- | |
| 93 |...................+ | |
| 94 |...@...........[...| | |
| 95 |........B..........| | |
| 96 |...................| | |
| 97 --------+------------ | |
| 98 | |
| 99 Level: 1 Gold: 0 Hp: 12(12) Str: 16 Ac: 6 Exp: 1/0 | |
| 100 </pre></div> | |
| 101 | |
| 102 <h3 align="justify"><b>3.1. The bottom line</b></h3> | |
| 103 | |
| 104 <p align="justify">At the bottom line of the screen is a few | |
| 105 pieces of cryptic information describing your current | |
| 106 status. Here is an explanation of what these things | |
| 107 mean:</p> | |
| 108 | |
| 109 <table border="0" width="100%" id="table1" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"> | |
| 110 <tr> | |
| 111 <td><p align="justify">Level </p></td> | |
| 112 <td><p align="justify">This number indicates how deep you have gone in the | |
| 113 dungeon. It starts at one and goes up forever<sup>2</sup>.</p></td> | |
| 114 </tr> | |
| 115 <tr> | |
| 116 <td><p align="justify">Gold</p></td> | |
| 117 <td><p align="justify">The number of gold pieces you have managed to find | |
| 118 and keep with you so far.</td> | |
| 119 </tr> | |
| 120 <tr> | |
| 121 <td><p align="justify">Hp</p></td> | |
| 122 <td><p align="justify">Your current and maximum hit points. | |
| 123 Health points indicate how much damage you can take before | |
| 124 you die. The more you get hit in a fight, the lower they | |
| 125 get. You can regain health points by resting. The number in | |
| 126 parentheses is the maximum number your hit points can | |
| 127 reach.</p></td> | |
| 128 </tr> | |
| 129 <tr> | |
| 130 <td><p align="justify">Str</p></td> | |
| 131 <td><p align="justify">Your current strength. This can be any | |
| 132 integer less than or equal to eighteen. The higher the number, | |
| 133 the stronger you are.</td> | |
| 134 </tr> | |
| 135 <tr> | |
| 136 <td><p align="justify">Ac</p></td> | |
| 137 <td><p align="justify">Your current armor class. This number | |
| 138 indicates how effective your armor is in stopping blows from | |
| 139 unfriendly creatures. The lower this number is, the more | |
| 140 effective the armor.</p></td> | |
| 141 </tr> | |
| 142 <tr> | |
| 143 <td><p align="justify">Exp</p></td> | |
| 144 <td><p align="justify">These two numbers give your current experience | |
| 145 level and experience points. As you do things, you gain experience | |
| 146 points. At certain experience point totals, you gain an | |
| 147 experience level. The more experienced you are, the better | |
| 148 you are able to fight and to withstand magical attacks.</p></td> | |
| 149 </tr> | |
| 150 </table> | |
| 151 | |
| 152 <h3 align="justify"><b>3.2. The top line</b></h3> | |
| 153 | |
| 154 <p align="justify">The top line of the screen is reserved for | |
| 155 printing messages that describe things that are impossible | |
| 156 to represent visually. If you see a “--More--” | |
| 157 on the top line, this means that rogue wants to print | |
| 158 another message on the screen, but it wants to make certain | |
| 159 that you have read the one that is there first. To read the | |
| 160 next message, just type a space.</p> | |
| 161 | |
| 162 <h3 align="justify"><b>3.3. The rest of the screen</b></h3> | |
| 163 | |
| 164 <p align="justify">The rest of the screen is the map of the | |
| 165 level as you have explored it so far. Each symbol on the | |
| 166 screen represents something. Here is a list of what the | |
| 167 various symbols mean:</p> | |
| 168 | |
| 169 <table border="0" width="100%" id="table2" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3"> | |
| 170 <tr> | |
| 171 <td>@</td> | |
| 172 <td><p align="justify">This symbol represents you, the adventurer.</p></td> | |
| 173 </tr> | |
| 174 <tr> | |
| 175 <td>- |</td> | |
| 176 <td><p align="justify">These symbols represent the walls of rooms.</p></td> | |
| 177 </tr> | |
| 178 <tr> | |
| 179 <td>+</td> | |
| 180 <td> | |
| 181 <p align="justify">A door to/from a room.</p></td> | |
| 182 </tr> | |
| 183 <tr> | |
| 184 <td>.</td> | |
| 185 <td><p align="justify">The floor of a room.</p></td> | |
| 186 </tr> | |
| 187 <tr> | |
| 188 <td>#</td> | |
| 189 <td><p align="justify">The floor of a passage between rooms.</p></td> | |
| 190 </tr> | |
| 191 <tr> | |
| 192 <td>*</td> | |
| 193 <td><p align="justify">A pile or pot of gold.</p></td> | |
| 194 </tr> | |
| 195 <tr> | |
| 196 <td>)</td> | |
| 197 <td><p align="justify">A weapon of some sort.</p></td> | |
| 198 </tr> | |
| 199 <tr> | |
| 200 <td>]</td> | |
| 201 <td><p align="justify">A piece of armor.</p></td> | |
| 202 </tr> | |
| 203 <tr> | |
| 204 <td>!</td> | |
| 205 <td><p align="justify">A flask containing a magic potion.</p></td> | |
| 206 </tr> | |
| 207 <tr> | |
| 208 <td>?</td> | |
| 209 <td><p align="justify">A piece of paper, usually a magic scroll.</p></td> | |
| 210 </tr> | |
| 211 <tr> | |
| 212 <td>^</td> | |
| 213 <td><p align="justify">A trap, watch out for these.</p></td> | |
| 214 </tr> | |
| 215 <tr> | |
| 216 <td>%</td> | |
| 217 <td><p align="justify">The passage leading down to the next level.</p></td> | |
| 218 </tr> | |
| 219 <tr> | |
| 220 <td>:</td> | |
| 221 <td><p align="justify">A piece of food.</p></td> | |
| 222 </tr> | |
| 223 <tr> | |
| 224 <td>A-Z </td> | |
| 225 <td><p align="justify">The uppercase letters represent the various | |
| 226 inhabitants of the Dungeons of Doom. Watch out, they can be mean.</p></td> | |
| 227 </tr> | |
| 228 </table> | |
| 229 | |
| 230 <h2 align="justify"><b>4. Commands</b></h2> | |
| 231 | |
| 232 <p align="justify">Commands are given to rogue by pressing single letters. | |
| 233 Most commands can be preceded by a count to repeat them | |
| 234 (e.g. typing "10s" will do ten searches) The list | |
| 235 of commands is rather long, but it can be read at any time | |
| 236 during the game with the ? command. Here it is for | |
| 237 reference, with a short explanation of each command.</p> | |
| 238 | |
| 239 <div align="center"> | |
| 240 <table border="0" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" id="table3"> | |
| 241 <tr> | |
| 242 <td>?</td> | |
| 243 <td><p align="justify">The help command. Asks for a character to give help | |
| 244 on. If you type a "*", it will list all the commands, | |
| 245 otherwise it will explain what the character you typed | |
| 246 does.</p></td> | |
| 247 </tr> | |
| 248 <tr> | |
| 249 <td>/</td> | |
| 250 <td align="justify"><p>This is the "What is that on the screen?" | |
| 251 command. A "/" followed by any character that you | |
| 252 see on the level, will tell you what that character is. For | |
| 253 instance, typing "/@" will tell you that the @ | |
| 254 symbol represents you, the player.</p></td> | |
| 255 </tr> | |
| 256 <tr> | |
| 257 <td colspan="2">h, H</td> | |
| 258 </tr> | |
| 259 <tr> | |
| 260 <td> </td> | |
| 261 <td><p align="justify">Move left. You move one space to the left. If you use | |
| 262 upper case h, you will continue to move left until you run into something. | |
| 263 This works for all movement commands (e.g. "L" means run in direction | |
| 264 "l")</p></td> | |
| 265 </tr> | |
| 266 <tr> | |
| 267 <td>j</td> | |
| 268 <td><p align="justify">Move down.</p></td> | |
| 269 </tr> | |
| 270 <tr> | |
| 271 <td>k</td> | |
| 272 <td><p align="justify">Move up.</p></td> | |
| 273 </tr> | |
| 274 <tr> | |
| 275 <td>l</td> | |
| 276 <td><p align="justify">Move right.</p></td> | |
| 277 </tr> | |
| 278 <tr> | |
| 279 <td>y</td> | |
| 280 <td><p align="justify">Move diagonally up and left.</p></td> | |
| 281 </tr> | |
| 282 <tr> | |
| 283 <td>u</td> | |
| 284 <td><p align="justify">Move diagonally up and right.</p></td> | |
| 285 </tr> | |
| 286 <tr> | |
| 287 <td>b</td> | |
| 288 <td><p align="justify">Move diagonally down and left.</p></td> | |
| 289 </tr> | |
| 290 <tr> | |
| 291 <td>n</td> | |
| 292 <td><p align="justify">Move diagonally down and right.</p></td> | |
| 293 </tr> | |
| 294 <tr> | |
| 295 <td>t</td> | |
| 296 <td><p align="justify">Throw an object. This is a prefix command. When | |
| 297 followed with a direction it throws an object in the specified direction. | |
| 298 (e.g. type “th” to throw something to the left.)</p></td> | |
| 299 </tr> | |
| 300 <tr> | |
| 301 <td>f</td> | |
| 302 <td><p align="justify">Find prefix. When followed by a direction it means to | |
| 303 continue moving in the specified direction until you pass | |
| 304 something interesting or run into a wall.</p></td> | |
| 305 </tr> | |
| 306 <tr> | |
| 307 <td>t</td> | |
| 308 <td><p align="justify">Throw an object. This is a prefix command. Follow it | |
| 309 with a direction and you throw an object in the specified | |
| 310 direction. (e.g. type "th" to throw something | |
| 311 left.)</p></td> | |
| 312 </tr> | |
| 313 <tr> | |
| 314 <td>></td> | |
| 315 <td><p align="justify">If you are standing over the passage down to the next | |
| 316 level, this command means to climb down.</p></td> | |
| 317 </tr> | |
| 318 <tr> | |
| 319 <td>s</td> | |
| 320 <td><p align="justify">Search for traps and secret doors. Examine each space | |
| 321 immediately adjacent to you for the existence of a trap or | |
| 322 secret door. There is a large chance that even if there is | |
| 323 something there, you won’t find it so you might have | |
| 324 to search a while before you find something.</p></td> | |
| 325 </tr> | |
| 326 <tr> | |
| 327 <td> </td> | |
| 328 <td><p align="justify">(space) Rest. This is the "do nothing" | |
| 329 command. This is good for waiting and healing.</p></td> | |
| 330 </tr> | |
| 331 <tr> | |
| 332 <td align="left" valign="top"> | |
| 333 <p>i</td> | |
| 334 <td align="justify"> | |
| 335 <p>Inventory. List what you are carrying in your pack.</td> | |
| 336 </tr> | |
| 337 <tr> | |
| 338 <td>I</td> | |
| 339 <td><p align="justify">Selective inventory. Tells you what a single item in | |
| 340 your pack is.</p></td> | |
| 341 </tr> | |
| 342 <tr> | |
| 343 <td>q</td> | |
| 344 <td><p align="justify">Quaff. Drink one of the potions you are | |
| 345 carrying.</p></td> | |
| 346 </tr> | |
| 347 <tr> | |
| 348 <td>r</td> | |
| 349 <td><p align="justify">Read. Read one of the scrolls in your pack.</p></td> | |
| 350 </tr> | |
| 351 <tr> | |
| 352 <td>e</td> | |
| 353 <td><p align="justify">Eat food. Take some food out of your pack and eat | |
| 354 it.</p></td> | |
| 355 </tr> | |
| 356 <tr> | |
| 357 <td>w</td> | |
| 358 <td><p align="justify">Wield a weapon. Take a weapon out of your pack and | |
| 359 carry it. You must be wielding weapon to use it (except to throw | |
| 360 things). To fire an arrow, you must wield the bow. You can | |
| 361 only wield one weapon at a time.</p></td> | |
| 362 </tr> | |
| 363 <tr> | |
| 364 <td>W</td> | |
| 365 <td><p align="justify">Wear armor. Take a piece of armor out of your pack | |
| 366 and put it on. You can only wear one suit of armor at a time.</td> | |
| 367 </tr> | |
| 368 <tr> | |
| 369 <td>T</td> | |
| 370 <td><p align="justify">Take armor off. You can’t remove armor that is | |
| 371 cursed. This takes extra time.</p></td> | |
| 372 </tr> | |
| 373 <tr> | |
| 374 <td>d</td> | |
| 375 <td><p align="justify">Drop an object. Take something out of your pack and | |
| 376 leave it lying on the floor. Only one object can occupy each | |
| 377 space.</p></td> | |
| 378 </tr> | |
| 379 <tr> | |
| 380 <td>o</td> | |
| 381 <td><p align="justify">Examine and set options. This command is further | |
| 382 explained in the section on options.</p></td> | |
| 383 </tr> | |
| 384 <tr> | |
| 385 <td>^L</td> | |
| 386 <td><p align="justify">Redraws the screen. Useful if spurious messages or | |
| 387 transmission errors have messed up the display.</p></td> | |
| 388 </tr> | |
| 389 <tr> | |
| 390 <td>v</td> | |
| 391 <td><p align="justify">Prints the program version number.</p></td> | |
| 392 </tr> | |
| 393 <tr> | |
| 394 <td>Q</td> | |
| 395 <td><p align="justify">Quit. Leave the game.</p></td> | |
| 396 </tr> | |
| 397 <tr> | |
| 398 <td>R</td> | |
| 399 <td><p align="justify">Repeat last message. Useful when a message disappears | |
| 400 before you can read it.</p></td> | |
| 401 </tr> | |
| 402 <tr> | |
| 403 <td>S</td> | |
| 404 <td><p align="justify">Save the current game in a file. Caveat: Rogue | |
| 405 won’t let you start up a copy of a saved game, and it | |
| 406 removes the save file as soon as you start up a restored | |
| 407 game. This is to prevent people from saving a game just | |
| 408 before a dangerous position and then restarting it if they | |
| 409 die. To restore a saved game, give the file name as an | |
| 410 argument to rogue. As in % rogue36 save_file</p></td> | |
| 411 </tr> | |
| 412 </table> | |
| 413 </div> | |
| 414 | |
| 415 <h2 align="justify"><b>5. Dealing with objects</b></h2> | |
| 416 | |
| 417 <p align="justify">When you find something in the dungeon, it is common to | |
| 418 want to pick the object up. This is accomplished in rogue by | |
| 419 walking over the object. If you are carrying too many | |
| 420 things, the program will tell you and it won’t pick up | |
| 421 the object, otherwise it will add it to your pack and if the | |
| 422 notify option is set, tell you what you just picked up.</p> | |
| 423 | |
| 424 <p align="justify">Many of the commands that operate on objects must prompt | |
| 425 you to find out which object you want to use. If you change | |
| 426 your mind and don’t want to do that command after all, | |
| 427 just press an escape and the command will be aborted.</p> | |
| 428 | |
| 429 <h2 align="justify"><b>6. Light</b></h2> | |
| 430 | |
| 431 <p align="justify">Rooms in the dungeons are either lit or dark. If you | |
| 432 walk into a lit room, the entire room will be drawn on the | |
| 433 screen as soon as you enter. If you walk into a dark room, | |
| 434 it will only be displayed as you explore it. Upon leaving a | |
| 435 dark room, all objects inside the room which might move are | |
| 436 removed from the screen. In the darkness you can only see | |
| 437 one space in all directions around you.</p> | |
| 438 | |
| 439 <h2 align="justify"><b>7. Fighting</b></h2> | |
| 440 <p align="justify">If you see a monster and you wish to fight it, just | |
| 441 attempt to run into it. Many times a monster you find will | |
| 442 mind its own business unless you attack it. It is often the | |
| 443 case that discretion is the better part of valor.</p> | |
| 444 | |
| 445 <h2 align="justify">8<b>. Armor</b></h2> | |
| 446 | |
| 447 <p align="justify">There are various sorts of armor lying around in the | |
| 448 dungeon. Some of it is enchanted, some is cursed and some is | |
| 449 just normal. Different armor types have different armor | |
| 450 classes. The lower the armor class, the more protection the | |
| 451 armor affords against the blows of monsters. If a piece of | |
| 452 armor is enchanted or cursed, its armor class will be higher | |
| 453 or lower than normal. Here is a list of the various armor | |
| 454 types and their normal armor class.</p> | |
| 455 | |
| 456 <div align="center"> | |
| 457 <table border="1" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" id="table4" style="border-collapse: collapse"> | |
| 458 <tr> | |
| 459 <th><i>Type</i></th> | |
| 460 <th><i>Class</i></th> | |
| 461 </tr> | |
| 462 <tr> | |
| 463 <td>Leather armor</td> | |
| 464 <td align="center">8</td> | |
| 465 </tr> | |
| 466 <tr> | |
| 467 <td>Studded leather / Ring mail</td> | |
| 468 <td align="center">7</td> | |
| 469 </tr> | |
| 470 <tr> | |
| 471 <td>Scale mail </td> | |
| 472 <td align="center">6</td> | |
| 473 </tr> | |
| 474 <tr> | |
| 475 <td>Chain mail </td> | |
| 476 <td align="center">5</td> | |
| 477 </tr> | |
| 478 <tr> | |
| 479 <td>Banded mail / Splint mail</td> | |
| 480 <td align="center">4</td> | |
| 481 </tr> | |
| 482 <tr> | |
| 483 <td>Plate mail</td> | |
| 484 <td align="center">3</td> | |
| 485 </tr> | |
| 486 </table> | |
| 487 </div> | |
| 488 | |
| 489 <h2 align="justify">9<b>. Options</b></h2> | |
| 490 | |
| 491 <p align="justify">Due to variations in personal tastes and conceptions of | |
| 492 the way rogue should do things, there are a set of options | |
| 493 you can set that cause rogue to behave in various different | |
| 494 ways.</p> | |
| 495 | |
| 496 <h3 align="justify"><b>9.1 Setting the options</b></h3> | |
| 497 | |
| 498 <p align="justify">There are basically two ways to set the options. The | |
| 499 first is with the "o" command of rogue, the second | |
| 500 is with the ROGUEOPTS environment variable. On Version 6 | |
| 501 systems, there is no equivalent of the ROGUEOPTS | |
| 502 feature.</p> | |
| 503 | |
| 504 <h3 align="justify"><b>9.1.1. Using the "o" command</b></h3> | |
| 505 | |
| 506 <p align="justify">When you press "o" in rogue, it clears the | |
| 507 screen and displays the current settings for all the | |
| 508 options. It then places the cursor by the value of the first | |
| 509 option and waits for you to type. You can type a RETURN | |
| 510 which means to go to the next option, a "−" | |
| 511 which means to go to the previous option, an escape which | |
| 512 means to return to the game, or you can give the option a | |
| 513 value. For boolean options this merely involves pressing | |
| 514 "t" for true or "f" for false. For | |
| 515 string options, type the new value followed by a return.</p> | |
| 516 | |
| 517 <h3 align="justify">9<b>.1.2. Using the ROGUEOPTS variable</b></h3> | |
| 518 | |
| 519 <p align="justify">The ROGUEOPTS variable is a string containing a comma | |
| 520 separated list of initial values for the various options. | |
| 521 Boolean variables can be turned on by listing their name and | |
| 522 turned off by putting a "no" in front of the name. | |
| 523 Thus to set up an environment variable so that jump is on, | |
| 524 terse is off, the name is set to "Conan the | |
| 525 Barbarian" and the fruit is "mango", use the | |
| 526 command</p> | |
| 527 | |
| 528 <div align="justify"><pre> | |
| 529 % setenv ROGUEOPTS "jump,noterse,name=Conan the Barbarian,fruit=mango"<sup>3</sup> | |
| 530 </pre></div> | |
| 531 | |
| 532 <h3 align="justify"><b>9.2. Option list</b></h3> | |
| 533 | |
| 534 <p align="justify">Here is a list of the options and an explanation of what | |
| 535 each one is for. The default value for each is enclosed in | |
| 536 square brackets.</p> | |
| 537 | |
| 538 <p align="justify"><b>terse</b>[<i>noterse</i>]</p> | |
| 539 <blockquote> | |
| 540 <p align="justify"> | |
| 541 Useful for those who are tired of the sometimes lengthy | |
| 542 messages of rogue. This is a useful option for those on slow | |
| 543 terminals. This option defaults to on if your are on a slow | |
| 544 (under 1200 baud) terminal.</p> | |
| 545 </blockquote> | |
| 546 | |
| 547 <p align="justify"><b>jump</b>[<i>nojump</i>]</p> | |
| 548 <blockquote> | |
| 549 <p align="justify">If this option is set, running moves will not be | |
| 550 displayed until you reach the end of the move. This saves | |
| 551 considerable cpu time and display time. This option defaults | |
| 552 to on if you are using a slow terminal.</p> | |
| 553 </blockquote> | |
| 554 | |
| 555 <p align="justify"><b>step</b>[<i>nostep</i>]</p> | |
| 556 <blockquote> | |
| 557 <p align="justify">When step is set, lists of things, like inventories or | |
| 558 "*" responses to "Which item do you wish to | |
| 559 xxxx? " questions, are displayed one item at a time on | |
| 560 the top of the screen, rather than clearing the screen, | |
| 561 displaying the list, then re-displaying the dungeon | |
| 562 level.</p> | |
| 563 </blockquote> | |
| 564 | |
| 565 <p align="justify"><b>flush</b>[<i>noflush</i>]</p> | |
| 566 <blockquote> | |
| 567 <p align="justify">If flush is set, all typeahead is thrown away after each | |
| 568 round of battle. This is useful for those who type way ahead | |
| 569 and watch to their dismay as a Kobold kills them.</p> | |
| 570 </blockquote> | |
| 571 | |
| 572 <p align="justify"><b>askme</b>[<i>noaskme</i>]</p> | |
| 573 <blockquote> | |
| 574 <p align="justify">Upon reading a scroll or quaffing a potion which does | |
| 575 not automatically identify it upon use, rogue will ask you | |
| 576 what to name it so you can recognize it in the future.</p> | |
| 577 </blockquote> | |
| 578 | |
| 579 <p align="justify"><b>name</b> [account name]</p> | |
| 580 <blockquote> | |
| 581 <p align="justify">This is the name of your character. It is used if you | |
| 582 get on the top ten scorer’s list. It should be less | |
| 583 than eighty characters long.</p> | |
| 584 </blockquote> | |
| 585 | |
| 586 <p align="justify"><b>fruit</b>[<i>slime-mold</i>]</p> | |
| 587 <blockquote> | |
| 588 <p align="justify">This should hold the name of a fruit that you enjoy | |
| 589 eating. It is basically a whimsy that the program uses in a | |
| 590 couple of places.</p> | |
| 591 </blockquote> | |
| 592 | |
| 593 <p align="justify"><b>file</b>[<i>rogue.save</i>]</p> | |
| 594 <blockquote> | |
| 595 <p align="justify">The default file name for saving the game. If your phone | |
| 596 is hung up by accident, rogue will automatically save the | |
| 597 game in this file. The file name may contain the special | |
| 598 character "~" which expands to be your home | |
| 599 directory.</p> | |
| 600 </blockquote> | |
| 601 | |
| 602 <h2 align="justify"><br> | |
| 603 | |
| 604 <b>10. Acknowledgements</b></h2> | |
| 605 | |
| 606 <p align="justify">Rogue was originally conceived of by Glenn Wichman and | |
| 607 Michael Toy. The help of Ken Arnold in making the program | |
| 608 easier to use and putting the finishing touches on is | |
| 609 greatly appreciated. I would also like to thank Marty | |
| 610 McNary, Scott Nelson, Daniel Jensen, Kipp Hickman, Joe | |
| 611 Kalash, Steve Maurer, Bill Joy, Mark Horton and Jan Miller | |
| 612 for their ideas and assistance.</p> | |
| 613 | |
| 614 <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="0" id="table5"> | |
| 615 <tr> | |
| 616 <td align="center"><sup>1</sup></td> | |
| 617 <td>As opposed to pseudo English sentences.</td> | |
| 618 </tr> | |
| 619 <tr> | |
| 620 <td align="center"><sup>2</sup></td> | |
| 621 <td>Or until you get killed or decide to quit.</td> | |
| 622 </tr> | |
| 623 <tr> | |
| 624 <td align="center"><sup>3</sup> </td> | |
| 625 <td><p>For those of you who use the Bourne shell, the commands would be</p> | |
| 626 <pre> $ ROGUEOPTS="jump,noterse,name=Conan the Barbarian,fruit=mango" | |
| 627 $ export ROGUEOPTS</pre> | |
| 628 </td> | |
| 629 </tr> | |
| 630 </table> | |
| 631 | |
| 632 </body> | |
| 633 </html> |