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From: pes@bath63.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,rec.games.rogue
Subject: Re: How Good is Rogue by Epyx?
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Date: Tue, 31-Mar-87 06:01:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 31 06:01:40 1987
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Reply-To: pes@ux63.bath.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
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Epyx Rogue on the Atari ST allows use of the outr ring of digits on the
numeric keypad to control movement.  The various 'operator/enter' keys
around the keypad allow 'search', 'sleep', 'up'(stairs), 'down', and
'fast/slow' (i.e. go until you find something/one step at a time).  Also
a toggle between display of the whole level and enlarged display of the
immediate neighbourhood.  (Use of the alt key does a temporary fast/slow
toggle, as well.)  I find this makes the game much nicer to play, though
you've still (far as I've worked out, at least) got to use the mouse for
interacting with the items in your pack.  (I just make the pack window
be the mouse window, and leave it there.)

Best thing about it is that my lady-friend enjoys it -- which means she's
stopped asking what I see in 'silly computer games'.  (I hasten to add
that she's generally computer-literate, but didn't see games...)
It's (on the Atari, at least) a fairly straightforward port of traditional
Unix Rogue (as doc'ed in the Unix manuals) bar the graphics, addition of
the mouse, and (annoying) renaming of a few of the monsters.

Besides, I think it's fun.  (Though it comes on an uncopyable disk which
you've got to run with write-enable -- don't much like that aspect.)