Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihlpe!kimes
From: kimes@ihlpe.ATT.COM (Kit Kimes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Hack, and the 8-bit...
Summary: Arogue
Message-ID: <2547@ihlpe.ATT.COM>
Date: 27 Jan 88 15:40:14 GMT
References: <8801131502.AA21280@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1988Jan25.125404.28913@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <1988Jan25.125404.28913@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>, jdd@db.toronto.edu ("John D. DiMarco") writes:
> 
> There is a version of Rogue available for the Atari 8-bit, 
> however (since Rogue only saves one dungeon level at a time,
> such a thing is possible). It is produced under the Epyx
> label, I think.
> 
Epyx made a version of Rogue for the ST (they don't even carry that anymore
in their latest catalog).  They never intended to make an 8bit version.

ANTIC magazine published a version called Arogue that is pretty good
considering the memory limitation.  I have a 48K machine and it works
fine.  It is in BASIC, so it is easy to cheat if you are so inclined.
It uses redefined character sets which makes it a little hard to read on
a color tv using the RF modulator.  Might be a lot better if you had one
with a composite video input.  Would be much better if used with a color
monitor.  It was reviewed by one of the regular readers here on the net
last summer/fall when it was printed in ANTIC.  He beat me to it, I'm
pretty slow at typing in magazine listings because my time is limited
for such frivolous pursuits.  I barely have time to look up the spelling
of all these words in the dictionary  :-)  .


					Kit Kimes  
					AT&T--Information Systems Labs
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