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Rogue V4, V5: disable a cheat granting permanent monster detection. In these two games, a potion of monster detection turns on the player's SEEMONST flag. A fuse is set to call turn_see() to turn the flag back off. But the save and restore functions do not recognize turn_see() and fail to set the fuse up again. When restoring, Rogue V4 merely sets the fuse's function to NULL and leaves it burning. When it goes off, a segfault results. Rogue V5 clears all the fuse's fields, and the player retains the ability to see all monsters on the level. The save and restore code can now handle the fuse. The function used is a new wrapper, turn_see_off(), which should lead to less problems with daemons being multiple incompatible types. Also, Rogue V4 and Super-Rogue now properly clear unrecognized daemon and fuse slots when restoring a saved game.
author John "Elwin" Edwards
date Sat, 05 Mar 2016 12:10:20 -0500
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.\" @(#)rogue.6	6.2 (Berkeley) 5/6/86
.\"
.\" Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom
.\" Copyright (C) 1980-1983, 1985, 1986 Michael Toy, Ken Arnold and Glenn Wichman
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" See the file LICENSE.TXT for full copyright and licensing information.
.\"
.TH ROGUE 6 "May 6, 1986"
.UC 4
.SH NAME
rogue \- Exploring The Dungeons of Doom
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B @PROGRAM@
[
.B \-r
]
[
.I save_file
]
[
.B \-s
]
[
.B \-d
]
.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 heroes.
.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
If
.I save_file
is specified,
rogue will be restored from the specified saved game file.
If the
.B \-r
option is used, the save game file is presumed to be the default.
.PP
The
.B \-s
option will print out the list of scores.
.PP
The
.B \-d
option will kill you and try to add you to the score file.
.PP
For more detailed directions, read the document
.I "A Guide to the Dungeons of Doom."
.SH AUTHORS
Michael C. Toy,
Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold,
Glenn Wichman
.SH FILES
.DT
.ta \w'@SCOREFILE@\ \ \ 'u
@SCOREFILE@	Score file
.br
\fB~\fP/rogue.save	Default save file
.SH SEE ALSO
Michael C. Toy
and
Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold,
.I "A guide to the Dungeons of Doom"
.SH BUGS
.PP
Probably infinite
(although countably infinite).
However,
that Ice Monsters sometimes transfix you permanently is
.I not
a bug.
It's a feature.