Series : Rogue
Original Developer : Michael Toy, Glenn Wichman, Ken Arnold
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Genres : Roguelike
Randomized Levels
Graphics : Three-Quarters View
Port of : Rogue (1980 Multi-platform Computer Games)
not completed.
Rogue: The Adventure Game
SCORES
Hiscores: 1403 ............ on 2015-08-29 309 ............ on 2015-08-26
Log entries
- I've had some trouble getting this to work, and it specifically doesn't work on my A500. I'm pretty sure the problem is the A501 memory expansion. Rogue also didn't run in WinUAE unless I disable memory expansion, and just run with 512K.
- Got the score 309. Killed by a deadly Ice Monster / Bat combination.
- Dividing Slimes? I don't remember that from the original UNIX version.
- Rogue was made before the Amiga 500, and the disk images I've been able to find don't run properly on an Amiga 500 with a memory expansion - most of the visuals are missing. I verified that it did run on FS-UAE when disabling extra slow memory (non-chip expansion memory). My assumption was that Rogue allocated memory using the system call AllocMem, without specifying any type of memory. Bitmap data would not work if not allocated in chip memory. Thinking about this, I remembered that Workbench 1.3 had a system tool called NoFastMem, which I think may just allocates all non-chip memory for itself, preventing any other program from doing so. I tried booting FS-UAE from the Workbench, starting NoFastMem, and then starting Rogue. It worked. After that, it was a question of modifying my ADF image to have 'run nofastmem' in the startup-sequence, and I could try it out on my hardware Amiga 500. It works, and now I can play a really old rogue-like on the original hardware. :)
- The Rogue's Vade-Mecum should be equally useful for this version of Rogue. According to rogueforge, Rogue 5.4 was released in 1985, so the Amiga version would probably correspond to the newest ruleset.
- The game has a Broad Sword, which I'm guessing corresponds to a 3d4 Long Sword from the Unix version, since the executable also has an entry for a Two Handed Sword.
- Wild Magic? Now, what's this?
- Got the score 1403. I was blinded by Wild Magic on dungeon level 11 and a Centaur killed me. Dammit! I had a lot of good stuff too.
2015-08-26
2015-08-29