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A History of Moria: written by Jim Wilson
this history is somewhat biased towards the Umoria versions because
those are the versions that I am most familiar with, info for the
VMS versions may be inaccurate
VMS Moria 4.8: last version by original authors, R.A. Koeneke, etc.,
developed at Univ Oklahoma in VMS Pascal
VMS Moria 5.0: developed at Univ Buffalo, VMS Pascal; has a Black
Market where one can purchase enchanted magic items at 100 times
normal value, a few bug fixes over 4.8 Moria, some new monsters
VMS Moria 6.0: under development at Villanova by Rick Greene; some more
bug fixes over VMS 5.0 (some borrowed from Umoria 4.87), more new
monsters, reduced map display (borrowed from PC-Moria),
this version was never finished and is apparently defunct
UMoria 4.87: developed by Jim Wilson at UC Berkeley;
very many bugs and inconsistencies in 4.8 fixed, rewritten
in C for better portability, Atari/Mac/UNIX versions identical,
character rerolling, no help facility like the VMS versions, etc.
PC-Moria 4.873: developed by Don Kneller; same as Umoria 4.87 except the
sources will compile on machines with 16 bit integers, reduced map
display
Amiga Moria v3.0: bitmapped graphics unlike ascii graphics of other versions,
has weapons of Godly Might and other changes that make it far far
easier than all other Moria versions
BRUCE Moria: developed by Christopher J. Stuart at Monash University,
somewhere in Australia; monster memories, look any direction code,
settable options, better run/find code, can center character on
screen, stat code rewritten to fix bugs, rudimentory help facility
added, plus many other enhancements, experimental version,
source never publicly released
UMoria 5.0: under developement by Jim Wilson at UC Berkeley; unified source
for UNIX/IBM-PC/Atari/Mac/VMS, many new features
borrowed from BRUCE Moria, more bug fixes, all floating point code
eliminated, many changes that affect play balance (hopefully for
the better), many type/structure changes
Vertical position indicates roughly when the versions were made available,
although the scale is not very accurate.
1983 Moria 1.0 (VMS)
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1985 Moria 4.8 (VMS)
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1987 UMoria 4.83 ------ ----------------
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/ --------- PC-Moria 4.83 |
UMoria 4.85 | |
/ | \ | Moria UB 5.0 (VMS)
1988 /------ | ------ | |
/ | UMoria 4.87 | |
| BRUCE Moria \ | |
Amiga Moria \ PC-Moria 4.873 |
1989 --------\ | |
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1990 Umoria 5.0 |
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?? Moria 6.0 (VMS) ??