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| author | John "Elwin" Edwards |
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| date | Mon, 05 Apr 2021 21:57:20 -0400 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/web/about/urogue.html Mon Apr 05 21:57:20 2021 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> +<html> +<head> +<title>UltraRogue</title> +<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/main.css"> +</head> + +<body> +<h1>UltraRogue</h1> +<div class="nav"><a href="/">RLGallery</a> -> <a href="/about/">About</a> -> UltraRogue</div> +<div class="content"> +<p>This game is a version of UltraRogue 1.0.7.</p> +<h2>History</h2> +<p>In December 1984, Herb Chong began customizing an early version of <a href="arogue5.html">Advanced Rogue</a>. After a month of adding monsters, dungeon levels, and features, he changed the name to UltraRogue. The first release, called 1.02, came in August 1985.</p> +<p>UltraRogue was one of the largest and most complex early roguelikes. Unlike the possibly larger <a href="xrogue.html">XRogue</a>, it does not share the rewritten time system of <a href="arogue7.html">Advanced Rogue 7</a>. This trend of growing the game and adding fun features, with less thought for balance, would be followed by early versions of Angband and NetHack.</p> +<p>Herb Chong continued working on UltraRogue into 1986. Between 1992 and 1995, it was the first early roguelike to be modernized. That effort would grow into the beginning of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180418191859/http://rogue.rogueforge.net/">Roguelike Restoration Project</a>.</p> +<p>The RRP regarded UltraRogue as under "semi-active" development "rather than a pure restoration" like its other games. A new version, with the number 1.0.7, was released in February 2005.</p> +<p>The Roguelike Gallery began work on UltraRogue in 2017. Some bugs have been fixed, but there are a few remaining, and it is not yet available to play online.</p> +<h2>More Information</h2> +<ul> +<li>The Roguelike Restoration Project's <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180417234625/http://rogue.rogueforge.net/ultrarogue-1-07/">information page</a></li> +<li>A Roguelike Gallery <a href="/notes/urogue-versions.html">article</a> about UltraRogue's early history</li> +</ul> +</div> +<div class="foot"><a href="/">RLGallery</a> <a href="/recent.cgi">Recent Games</a> <a href="/scoring/high.cgi">High Scores</a> <a href="/notes/">Notes</a> <a href="https://rlgallery.org:8080/">Play</a></div> +</body> +</html>