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rogue3: begin porting to autoconf.
Rogue V3 can now be built with './configure && make'. This is
preliminary: 'make install' does not work yet.
author | John "Elwin" Edwards |
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date | Sat, 24 Aug 2013 13:36:13 -0700 |
parents | rogue3/rogue.6@38acf3eb27e6 |
children | c191a735f811 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/rogue3/rogue.6.in Sat Aug 24 13:36:13 2013 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,87 @@ +.TH ROGUE 6 +.UC +.SH NAME +rogue \- Exploring The Dungeons of Doom +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B @PROGRAM@ +[ -s ] +[ +.I save_file +] +[ -n +.I playername +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.PP +.I Rogue +is a computer fantasy game with a new twist. It is crt oriented and the +object of the game is to survive the attacks of various monsters and get +a lot of gold, rather than the puzzle solving orientation of most computer +fantasy games. +.PP +To get started you really only need to know two commands. The command +.B ? +will give you a list of the available commands and the command +.B / +will identify the things you see on the screen. +.PP +To win the game (as opposed to merely playing to beat other people's high +scores) you must locate the Amulet of Yendor which is somewhere below +the 20th level of the dungeon and get it out. Nobody has achieved this +yet and if somebody does, they will probably go down in history as a hero +among heros. +.PP +When the game ends, either by your death, when you quit, or if you (by +some miracle) manage to win, +.I rogue +will give you a list of the top-ten scorers. The scoring is based entirely +upon how much gold you get. There is a 10% penalty for getting yourself +killed. +.PP +For more detailed directions, read the document +.I "A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom." +.SH OPTIONS +.PP +If a +.I save_file +argument is given, +.I rogue +will attempt to load a previously saved game from that file. +.PP +With the +.B -n +option, +.I rogue +will load a game with the name +.I playername +from a location defined at compile time. If no such game exists, it will +start one. +.PP +The +.B -s +option prints the top-ten scores list and exits. + +.SH FILES +.ta 2i +@SCOREFILE@ Score file +.br +~/rogue3.save Default save file +.br +/usr/local/games/roguelike/rogue3save System savefiles +.DT +.SH SEE ALSO +Michael C. Toy, +.I "A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom" +.SH BUGS +.PP +Probably infinite. Currently known bugs are: Sometimes you are still hungry +even after you eat food and sometimes you get a monster on the screen in +reverse video which may or may not cause a core dump. +.SH COPYRIGHT +Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom +.br +Copyright (C) 1980, 1981 Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Glenn Wichman +.br +All rights reserved. +.br +License: 3-clause BSD, see LICENSE.txt for details.