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From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //gs Rogue clone
Message-ID: <9168@claris.com>
Date: 23 Mar 89 20:01:34 GMT
References: <21965@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <21965@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, by labc-3dc@e260-3f.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden):
> Comments:
> The docs say it was distributed as S16; it's an EXE.  No big deal...
Yeah, I realized that last night as I was going to sleep.

> It *does* work on a 768K machine, although it crashed once (around 00/2000).
> The "save" option wants the save DIRECTORY, not the save FILE.  Make sure to
>   end the prefix with a slash ("/").
Oops.


> Some commands are different (from the docs; the on-line help is correct):
>   & does the screen dump
>   \ does the "print found out" stuff
I really need to write some docs for RCIII as well as some for my extensions.

 
> Suggestions:
> It might be nice to have a way for Finder users to restore saved games
>   (maybe check the existence of the default file, printing appropriate
>   messages if something goes wrong...)
There's an undocumented command `O' (for open) which prompts you for a file
to restore from.

> A list of MouseText character usage and some info about the "added features"
>   would be nice.
Yeah, that too.  Unfortunately, it's hard to document mousetext... if you
hardwire it into a text file, it depends on what you use to view it & it won't
print to an ImageWriter correctly, either... one of these days I'll modify
the online help to handle it correctly.

As far as my extensions go, here's a list of what the `scott' option enables:


SPOILER WARNING

Scroll of genocide, potion of invisibility, wand of many things, trap ceilings
& the inability to read scrolls when blind.

That's all.  If you don't enable `scott' then you get Tim Stoehr's version of
the game.
 
> Overall, this is very nicely done.  Since the game crashes from time to
> time, maybe you could let us know how to make copies of the saved games...?
>

OK, an undocumented option is `checkpoint' which causes the program to write
out a save file at the beginning of each level.  I believe the file it
writes to is hardwired to 3/ROGUE.CKP .  One other bug: you have to type the
pathname in as originally saved in order to restore.  So, to restore from the
checkpoint file, you'd type `rogue 3/rogue.ckp'. 


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