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MAC ROGUE 3.0 (the last realase) Introduction This manual is the modified version of the Rogue manual written by Michael C. Toy & Kenneth C. R. C. Arnold. You have just finished your years as a student at the local fighter's guild. After much practice and sweat you have finally completed your training and are ready to embark upon a perilous adventure. As a test of your skills, the local guildmasters have sent you into the Dungeons of Doom. Your task is to return with the Amulet of Yendor. Your reward for the completion of this task will be a full membership in the local guild. In addition, you are allowed to keep all the loot you bring back from the dungeons. In preparation for your journey, you are given an enchanted mace, a bow, and a quiver of arrows taken from a dragon's hoard in the far off Dark Mountains. You are also outfitted with elf-crafted armor and given enough food to reach the dungeons. You say good-bye to your family and friends, for what may be the last time, and head up the road. You set out on your way to the dungeons and after several days of uneventful travel, you see the ancient ruins that mark the entrance to the Dungeons of Doom. It is late at night, so you make camp at the entrance and spend the night sleeping under the open skies. In the morning you gather your weapons, put on your armor, eat what is almost your last food, and enter the dungeons. What is going on here? You have just begun a game of rogue. Your goal is to grab as much treasure as you can, find the Amulet of Yendor, and get out of the Dungeons of Doom alive. On the screen, a map of where you have been and what you have seen on the current dungeon level is kept. As you explore more of the level, it will appear on the screen in front of you. Rogue differs from most computer fantasy games in that it is screen oriented. Commands are all in one or two keystrokes and the results of your commands are displayed graphically on the screen rather than being explained in words. Another major difference between rogue and other com- puter fantasy games is that once you have solved all the puzzles in a standard fantasy game, it has lost most of its excitement and it ceases to be fun. Rogue, on the other hand, generates a new dungeon every time you play it and even the author finds it an entertaining and exciting game. What do all those things on the screen mean? In order to understand what is going on in rogue you have to first get some grasp of what rogue is doing with the screen. The rogue screen is intended to replace the "You can see ..." descriptions of standard fantasy games. Figure below is a sample of what a rogue screen might look like. ¬† The right top window: The first row (right below the image of the player) is the name of the player (Adventurer is the default name). Level This number indicates how deep you have gone in the dungeon. It starts at one and goes up as you go deeper into the dungeon. Gold The number of gold pieces you have managed to find and keep with you so far. Health Your current and maximum health points. Health points points indicate how much damage you can take before you die. The more you get hit in a fight, the lower they get. You can regain health points by resting. The damage is shown with a red line the health with a green one. So as much as the line is green as much healty you are, and when it becomes red you are dead. Strength Your current strength. When you are at the max possible strength all the line is green, if you loose part of it it begin to become red. (For example if a rattlesnake bites you, you get weaker and a part of the line becomes red). Armor Your current armor protection. This number indicates how effective your armor is in stopping blows from unfriendly creatures. The higher this number is, the more effective the armor. Experience These two numbers give your current experience level and exp. points. As you do things, you gain experience points. At certain experience point totals, you gain an experience level. The more experienced you are, the better you are able to fight and to withstand magical attacks. You feel Above this line it appears a message about your health. There you will find about you are hungry, confused or dizzy. The right bottom window In this window there are 12 buttons. The ones on the left move the adventurer in the 8 possible directions. The other 3 are (from the top to the bottom): Look: has the same effect of the "s" keystroke, it has to be used to search segret doors and traps. Down Stairs: To climb stairs down (as to press ">"). Up Stairs: To climb stairs up (as to press "<"). The left bottom window The top line of the screen is reserved for printing messages that describe things that are impossible to represent visually. You can see there the last three messages, The last one is written in blue. The left top window The rest of the screen is the map of the level as you have explored it so far. Each symbol on the screen represents something. Here is a list of what the various symbols mean: ¬† ¬† These symbols represent the walls of rooms. ¬† A door to/from a room. ¬† A pile or pot of gold. ¬† A weapon of some sort. ¬† A piece of armor. ¬† A flask containing a magic potion. ¬† A piece of paper, usually a magic scroll. ¬† A ring with magic properties. ¬† A magical staff or wand. ¬† trap, watch out for these. ¬† ¬† A staircase to other levels. ¬† A piece of food. ¬† The Amulet of Yendor. Floowing there are the player symbols and the symbols of the monsters, there is no power difference between the male and female character : ¬† Watch out, they can be nasty and vicious. You can see around all the area where you are playing just moving the scroll-bars on this window. As soon as will press a key the view will go back on the standard one with the player in the ceter of the window. Commands Commands are given to rogue by typing one or two char- acters. Most commands can be preceded by a count to repeat them (e.g. typing "10s" will do ten searches). Commands for which counts make no sense have the count ignored. To can- cel a count or a prefix, type <ESCAPE>. The list of com- mands is rather long, but it can be read at any time during the game with the "?" command. Here it is for reference, with a short explanation of each command. ? The help command. Asks for a character to give help on. If you type a "*", it will list all the commands, otherwise it will explain what the character you typed does. h, H, ^H, 4, Left Arrow : Move left. You move one space to the left. If you use upper case "h", you will continue to move left until you run into something. This works for all movement commands (e.g. "L" means run in direction "l") If you use the "control" "h", you will continue moving in the specified direction until you hit something interesting or run into a wall. You should experiment with this, since it is a very useful command, but very difficult to describe.This also works for all movement commands. (N.B. the numbers are referred to the keypad). Note Control+Key and Shift+Key works in the OPPOSITE way of the UNIX Rogue. This because it is more useful to get closer to something (a monster) than to go on something (which would mean to begin to fight with the monster). Keeping a key pressed works as Control+Key. j, 2, Down Arrow : Move down. k, 8, Up Arrow : Move up. l, 6, Right Arrow : Move right. y,7 Move diagonally up and left. u,9 Move diagonally up and right. b,1 Move diagonally down and left. n,3 Move diagonally down and right. t Throw an object. This is a prefix command. When fol- lowed with a direction it throws an object in a specified direction. (e.g. type "th" to throw some- thing to the left.) f Fight until someone dies. When followed with a direc- tion this will force you to fight the creature in that direction until either you or it bites the big one. m Move onto something without picking it up. This will move you one space in the direction you specify and, if there is an object there you can pick up, it won't do it. z Zap prefix. Point a staff or wand in a given direction and fire it. Even non-directional staves must be pointed in some direction to be used. ^ Identify trap command. If a trap is on your map and you can't remember what type it is, you can get rogue to remind you by getting next to it and typing "^" fol- lowed by the direction that would move you on top of it. s Search for traps and secret doors. Examine each space immediately adjacent to you for the existence of a trap or secret door. There is a large chance that even if there is something there, you won't find it, so you might have to search a while before you find something. > Climb down a staircase to the next level. Not surpris- ingly, this can only be done if you are standing on staircase. < Climb up a staircase to the level above. This can't be done without the Amulet of Yendor in your possession. . Rest. This is the "do nothing" command. This is good for waiting and healing. i Inventory. List what you are carrying in your pack. When you press "i" it will appear a window. You can select an item pressing the key associated to this item or double-clicking the row where this item is located. I Selective inventory. Tells you what a single item in your pack is. q Quaff one of the potions you are carrying. r Read one of the scrolls in your pack. e Eat food from your pack. w Wield a weapon. Take a weapon out of your pack and carry it for use in combat, replacing the one you are currently using (if any). W Wear armor. You can only wear one suit of armor at a time. This takes extra time. T Take armor off. You can't remove armor that is cursed. This takes extra time. P Put on a ring. You can wear only two rings at a time (one on each hand). If you aren't wearing any rings, this command will ask you which hand you want to wear it on, otherwise, it will place it on the unused hand. The program assumes that you wield your sword in your right hand. R Remove a ring. If you are only wearing one ring, this command takes it off. If you are wearing two, it will ask you which one you wish to remove, d Drop an object. Take something out of your pack and leave it lying on the floor. Only one object can occupy each space. You cannot drop a cursed object at all if you are wielding or wearing it. c Call an object something. If you have a type of object in your pack which you wish to remember something about, you can use the call command to give a name to that type of object. This is usually used when you figure out what a potion, scroll, ring, or staff is after you pick it up, or when you want to remember which of those swords in your pack you were wielding. o Examine and set options. This command is further explained in the section on options. D Print last message. Useful when a message disappears before you can read it. This only repeats the last message that was not a mistyped command so that you don't loose anything by accidentally typing the wrong character instead of √†P. <ESCAPE> Cancel a command, prefix, or count. Q Quit. Leave the game. S Save the current game in a file. v Prints the program version number. ) Print the weapon you are currently wielding ] Print the armor you are currently wearing = Print the rings you are currently wearing @ Reprint the status line on the message line Rooms Rooms in the dungeons are either lit or dark. If you walk into a lit room, the entire room will be drawn on the screen as soon as you enter (this if the option about floor management is set otherwise all the explored rooms are ever drawn). If you walk into a dark room, it will only be displayed as you explore it. Upon leaving a room, all monsters inside the room are erased from the screen. In the darkness you can only see one space in all directions around you. A corridor is always dark. Fighting If you see a monster and you wish to fight it, just attempt to run into it. Many times a monster you find will mind its own business unless you attack it. It is often the case that discretion is the better part of valor. Objects you can find When you find something in the dungeon, it is common to want to pick the object up. This is accomplished in rogue by walking over the object (unless you use the "m" prefix, see above). If you are carrying too many things, the pro- gram will tell you and it won't pick up the object, other- wise it will add it to your pack and tell you what you just picked up. Many of the commands that operate on objects must prompt you to find out which object you want to use. If you change your mind and don't want to do that command after all, just type an <ESCAPE> and the command will be aborted. Some objects, like armor and weapons, are easily dif- ferentiated. Others, like scrolls and potions, are given labels which vary according to type. During a game, any two of the same kind of object with the same label are the same type. However, the labels will vary from game to game. When you use one of these labeled objects, if its effect is obvious, rogue will remember what it is for you. If it's effect isn't extremely obvious you will be asked what you want to scribble on it so you will recognize it later, or you can use the "call" command (see above). Weapons Some weapons, like arrows, come in bunches, but most come one at a time. In order to use a weapon, you must wield it. To fire an arrow out of a bow, you must first wield the bow, then throw the arrow. You can only wield one weapon at a time, but you can't change weapons if the one you are currently wielding is cursed. The commands to use weapons are "w" (wield) and "t" (throw). Armor There are various sorts of armor lying around in the dungeon. Some of it is enchanted, some is cursed, and some is just normal. Different armor types have different armor protection. The higher the armor protection, the more pro- tection the armor affords against the blows of monsters. Here is a list of the various armor types and their normal armor protection: __________________________________________ Type Protection None 0 Leather armor 2 Studded leather / Ring mail 3 Scale mail 4 Chain mail 5 Banded mail / Splint mail 6 Plate mail 7 __________________________________________ If a piece of armor is enchanted, its armor protection will be higher than normal. If a suit of armor is cursed, its armor protection will be lower, and you will not be able to remove it. However, not all armor with a protection that is lower than normal is cursed. The commands to use weapons are "W" (wear) and "T" (take off). Scrolls Scrolls come with titles in an unknown tongue. After you read a scroll, it disappears from your pack. The command to use a scroll is "r" (read). Potions Potions are labeled by the color of the liquid inside the flask. They disappear after being quaffed. The command to use a scroll is "q" (quaff). Staves and Wands Staves and wands do the same kinds of things. Staves are identified by a type of wood; wands by a type of metal or bone. They are generally things you want to do to some- thing over a long distance, so you must point them at what you wish to affect to use them. Some staves are not affected by the direction they are pointed, though. Staves come with multiple magic charges, the number being random, and when they are used up, the staff is just a piece of wood or metal. The command to use a wand or staff is "z" (zap) Rings Rings are very useful items, since they are relatively permanent magic, unlike the usually fleeting effects of potions, scrolls, and staves. Of course, the bad rings are also more powerful. Most rings also cause you to use up food more rapidly, the rate varying with the type of ring. Rings are differentiated by their stone settings. The com- mands to use rings are "P" (put on) and "R" (remove). Food Food is necessary to keep you going. If you go too long without eating you will faint, and eventually die of starvation. The command to use food is "e" (eat). Magic Map Some scrolls allows you to see the map of the level where you are, because of the dimensions of window the map is stylized like so: ¬† The meaning of the colors is: BLACK : Walls BLUE : Doors GREEN : Tunnels MAGENTA : Traps WHITE : Stairs Options Due to variations in personal tastes and conceptions of the way rogue should do things, there are a set of options you can set that cause rogue to behave in various different ways. Setting the options There are two ways to set the options. The first is with the "o" command of rogue; the second is with the item in the "File" menu. In the both case it will appear a window where you can easly set the options. As soon as you close that window the options will be saved so you will find them set as you like every time you will play Rogue. ¬†¬† ¬† Option list Here is a list of the options and an explanation of what each one is for. The default value for each is enclosed in square brackets. For character string options, input over fifty characters will be ignored. Empty Background If this option is set the background (the grass or the rocks) isn't drawn. In this way the game become a little faster. Ask to quit Before to quit the program asks you if you want to save the game or if you don't. So to ask to quit may sound a little boring. You can avoid this unsetting this option. Flush Events in Battle All typeahead is thrown away after each round of bat- tle. This is useful for those who type far ahead and then watch in dismay as a Bat kills them. Standard Rogue Floor Managment The original Rogue doesn't not show the floor when you exit from a room. This was what Mac Rogue did in the begin too. Now It doesn't anymore. The 2.5 version of Mac Rogue shows the floor evertime a new room is descoverd. To go Back to the old system you have only to set this option on. Show Walls in Passageways In the original ROGUE the passageways doesn't have walls but since i like them better with walls I add them to this version of the game. If you want to play as in the original rogue or if you want a faster game set this off. Display Picture when you Die Print out the message at the end if you get killed. This is nice but slow, so you can turn it off if you like. Continuous Movement If this option is set the monsters move even when you don't do anything, it makes the game harder. But someone likes it so. Sound ON If this option is set you will ear some sounds as the steps of the player, and the noise of the fights. If it off you won't hear anything but the game will be a little bit faster. Show Status as Bar If it is set it will show the informations about your status (health, strengh and armor) as coloured bars. If it isn't set it will show the status with numbers as in the standard Rogue. Default Player Name This is default the name of your character. It is used if you get on the right window and in the score list. Default Favourite Fruit This should hold the name of a fruit that you enjoy eating. It is basically a whimsey that rogue uses in a couple of places. Default Save filename The default file name for saving the game. Sprite Size It is the default dimension of the sprites, 32x32 is the standard dimension. It is possible to have sprites with the dimension of 24x24 and 16x16 but to select these dimensions it is necessary a VERY fast Mac. Scoring Rogue usually maintains a list of the top scoring peo- ple or scores on your machine. Depending on how it is set up, it can post either the top scores or the top players. In the latter case, each account on the machine can post only one non-winning score on this list. If you score higher than someone else on this list, or better your previ- ous score on the list, you will be inserted in the proper place under your current name. How many scores are kept can also be set up by whoever installs it on your machine. If you quit the game, you get out with all of your gold intact. If, however, you get killed in the Dungeons of Doom, your body is forwarded to your next-of-kin, along with 90% of your gold; ten percent of your gold is kept by the Dungeons' wizard as a fee. This should make you consider whether you want to take one last hit at that monster and possibly live, or quit and thus stop with whatever you have. If you quit, you do get all your gold, but if you swing and live, you might find more. Hardware configuration There isn't a minimal hardware to play MacRogue but it better to have a fast Mac, what it is necessary is the 32-bit Quick-Draw (but it isn't necessary a color screen, Mac Rogue works fine even with a b/w screen) and 1.5 MB of RAM. I don't know how Mac Rogue will work on a PowerPC you have one please try it and let me know. Honourware I wrote this game to learn how to program a Mac, so please be patient with me if there are still bugs or problems. Do not take it too seriously, it is only a porting experiment. In future (as soon as I'll have some more free time) I'll try to make something better so I will appreciate every suggestion to improve this version of Rogue or the next fantasy game I'll port on Mac (what about OMEGA ?). I would even be grateful if you would distribuite it to as many friends as you can. With ResEdit you can change the sprites and the sounds, you can translate the help and the acces- sible part of the scrolling text, of course you can add your name there (something like "Japanse version by ....") but please do not change the Starting image (the one with ID 131), and the Honourware conditions in this text and in the scrolling one in the program. Think that this simple program can help one more child somewhere in the world just because you imporoved it. If you change sprites or images, do not forget to change this document too, add your name here too !. This document is written with DOCMaker 3.95 a shareware program by Mark Wall, you can easly find it in the Internet or in PD/SHAREWARE collections. (You can even use ResEdit to change this document, but it is not so easy as with DOCMaker). Thank you for your improvements and/or translations ! Please send me your improved MacRogue, so I'll can enjoy and share it with everyone ! And now the real honourware conditions: This is a not-for-profit program. This game cannot be sold. However, please feel free to share it with friends, family, neighbors, or whomever may be interested. If you wish, please donate 5-10$ to UNICEF, it is not very much, but with it you can help UNICEF save the life of the children who suffer in the world. (UNICEF is : United Nations Children's Fund) For the address of your nearest UNICEF office, write to: UNICEF HQ 3 U.N. Plaza New York, New York 10017 U.S.A. Do not blame UNICEF for anything about this program, they don't even know it exists. I don't take any responsbility for the damages this program may cause, to use it is up to you. A lot of people wrote to me to report bugs, so now I think there aren't anymore bugs, but if you find some bug write to me : Marco Pontil Via Col Da Ren 83 32100 Belluno [BL] ITALY E-Mail:marco@chiara.dei.unipd.it But please do not send me money ! Really, if you like it send something to UNICEF, they need help, I don't. Thank you. Acknowledgements Rogue was originally conceived of by Glenn Wichman and Michael Toy. Ken Arnold and Michael Toy then smoothed out the user interface, and added jillions of new features. We would like to thank Bob Arnold, Michelle Busch, Andy Hatcher, Kipp Hickman, Mark Horton, Daniel Jensen, Bill Joy, Joe Kalash, Steve Maurer, Marty McNary, Jan Miller, and Scott Nelson for their ideas and assistance; and also the teeming multitudes who graciously ignored work, school, and social life to play rogue and send us bugs, complaints, suggestions, and just plain flames. And also Mom. I (Marco) would like to thank my fiancee Renu for helping me with the messages in English you will find in MacRogue, unfortunately I didn't have a chance to show her the last relase of this document, so she had a chance to correct only few of the many mistakes I made. For this reason I'm asking you to be patient and to forgive my mistakes. GianUberto, for finding all the images which appeare in MacRogue. Heiko for almost all the sprites. My brother Stefano for pushing me to program even when I wasn't in the mood. And everyone who will play this game and will support UNICEF (United Nations Children's Found).