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There are 2 games in my life that I cannot live without. Rogue and Angband. I still play them, people still look at me like Im a goof when they see it on my computer, and I still come back and say all the sound, all the graphics, all the volumetric fog, all the extra-ordinary physics models, still don't hold a candle the trillion of hours of enjoyable game play these two games offer, and they have no graphics! Now that says something.

AWESOME choice. :-)

Gandolf - waiting for current game makers to make games, and not movies - the 23rd.

HOW DO I LOAD? whats teh wizzards password? activates the prompt by pushing ctrl+p and it says som hint about TAZZ any help?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Gandolf the 23rd @ Mar 23 2007, 09:57 PM) [snapback]284735[/snapback]</div>

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yes i know what you mean i have just finished with QUAKE 4 and while being an amazing graphical treat i found it to be ultimately an empty experence that i have no desire to revisit. but i am still tempted to play rogue games afer all these years mmmmmmmmmmmmm?

Yes, rogue is a classic, but you should play nethack! www.nethack.org.... To find those secret doors press s, and descend into the deep dark recesses of a game infinitely less cool than nethack.

Just wondering...
I always seem to run out of food in level 18 or 19, is there a way to get more food (other then just finding a red clover) ?

Besides that (rather big) inconvenience... it's an awesome game! =)

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Also...

Loading a savegame (with "rogue rogue.sav"), will delete the file "rogue.sav" itself

You can make a batchfile (call it "load.bat" or whatever) and put the following text in to always make sure you keep a few (up to 5) backup savegame copies:

Code:

@echo off

:begin

if not exist rogue.sav goto reload

if exist rogue4.sav copy rogue4.sav rogue5.sav

if exist rogue3.sav copy rogue3.sav rogue4.sav

if exist rogue2.sav copy rogue2.sav rogue3.sav

if exist rogue1.sav copy rogue1.sav rogue2.sav

if exist rogue.sav copy rogue.sav rogue1.sav

copy rogue.sav rogue1.sav

goto start



:reload

if not exist rogue1.sav goto nosave

copy rogue1.sav rogue.sav



:start

Echo Starting Rogue using rogue.sav (or press Ctrl-c to abort) ...

pause

rogue rogue.sav

pause

goto begin



:nosave

echo No previous savegame found!

echo Starting new game (or press Ctrl-c to abort)

pause

rogue

pause

goto begin



:end

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Using this, you can keep a few midgame saves.
To save, press shift-s in game, save to the default name (rogue.sav), then it quits, makes a backup copy, and goes back into the game where you left off.

(used this batch for decades, works like a charm ;) )

Everybody know a "newlook" version called FALCON? New graphics and the same gameplay. Seach the web for details...

Ooooh! Nice! I used to have a 3.5"diskette with a few nerdy tools, like attrib (not standard in the old dos), pctools, arj/lha/pkzip, a text-editor and such. It had rogue hidden on it, and i always sneaked it into the computer room of our school. (-:

I looked for it a few times, but i couldn't find it anymore. It's been years! Thanks so much!

The ring of slow digestion should help you go by with less food.

Hey, does anyone here know how to shoot an arrow with a bow? Ive read the F1 about 4 times now :wallbash: and no apparent way is shown.

Sorry about double post, but does anyone know where a full list of the potions and scrolls are?

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Hey, does anyone here know how to shoot an arrow with a bow? Ive read the F1 about 4 times now :wallbash: and no apparent way is shown.
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As i recall, i alway threw the arrows. I hope it helps