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As a rogue addict, nice read. But rogue is a gateway drug to the nethacks :) * ssh nethack@alt.org * ssh nethack@hf * ssh play@server.gnollhack.com * ssh slashem@slashem.me
Ditto, I play Slashem daily. My deepest level it's been 13 or 17, but I won't surrender. Also, IF games and csokoban games.
I wonder what game he's talking about. Have to circle back sometime or subscribe to their RSS feed.
That was a nice read! I would have loved to take a brief dip into the less hardcore rogue-lite scene that sprung up, but that might have doubled the length again.
So much of the early Filfre content was Zork focused, and Zork's Coconut of Quendor is such a direct nod to the Amulet of Yendor, that I would have expected this entry very early on in the Digital Antiquarian.
I am interested to see what narrative threads lead him to hold this subject for such a late exposition.
There was another rogue clone that I remember grabbing from Usenet back in the day, by Tim Stoehr. It was intended to be as direct a clone as possible (nethack was already a thing by thing by then). I implemented hand grenades in my long-lost copy.
https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php?title=Rogue_Clone
Unfortunately, link rot has set in. Only the Sourceforge link still works:
https://rogueclone.sourceforge.net/
It seems to be a DOS/Windows port.
Next time, we’ll learn how one of the most popular of all the slick commercial games of the late 1990s grew out of this odd little corner of hackerdom… I wonder what game he's talking about. Have to circle back sometime or subscribe to their RSS feed.
Next time, we’ll learn how one of the most popular of all the slick commercial games of the late 1990s grew out of this odd little corner of hackerdom… I wonder what game he's talking about. Have to circle back sometime or subscribe to their RSS feed.
It’s got quite clear rogue influences.
A nice read, and it was nice to learn the back story of rogue. One slight correction: PLATO was at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), not Chicago. I think there were some terminals at UIC, but not U of C. There was another rogue clone that I remember grabbing from Usenet back in the day, by Tim Stoehr. It was intended to be as direct a clone as possible (nethack was already a thing by thing by then). I im…
As a rogue addict, nice read. But rogue is a gateway drug to the nethacks :) * ssh nethack@alt.org * ssh nethack@hf * ssh play@server.gnollhack.com * ssh slashem@slashem.me
This is all I need, I'm already trying to break my Larn addiction. (/s)
Author didn't go into the fact that some of these games arrived with PCs; AFAIK there was never a Unix version of Larn.
As a rogue addict, nice read. But rogue is a gateway drug to the nethacks :) * ssh nethack@alt.org * ssh nethack@hf * ssh play@server.gnollhack.com * ssh slashem@slashem.me
Why not just connect to a MUD?