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From: peterw@reed.UUCP (Peter Williams)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari,net.games.rogue,net.games.emp
Subject: Re: Rogue and Empire for Atari
Message-ID: <1162@reed.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-Mar-85 22:48:59 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 23 22:48:59 1985
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Reply-To: peterw@reed.UUCP (Peter Williams)
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Summary: 

In article <212@ihu1n.UUCP> freak@ihu1n.UUCP (c e malloy) writes:
>1) Will the Epyx versions be *just* like the main-frame versions?
>	I think not.  There is not enough memory on the Atari computers
>	to run a program as complex as Rogue or Empire.  The code for Rogue
>	is over 250K.  There are over 80 monsters in the version that I
>	play.  Add to that: various weapons, armor, potions, scrolls, wands
>	staffs, rings, etc.  And don't forget about the randomly generated
>	rooms, halls, traps, and other things.  It just won't fit in 48K,
>	64K or even in the 160K (you can get that high if you have a 128K
>	RamPower).

I wrote a version of rogue 5.2 w/52 monsters and more armor/weapons/stuff,
and it fit (tightly) on one sssd disk.  I wrote it in 6502 assembly, and
with a little disk action for the map generator, and the not-so-often used
strings, it worked fine.  I even had about 3-4k left over for other stuff I
might add.

				Peter Williams
				tektronix!reed!peterw