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<!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>