jlc@atux01.UUCP (03/27/87)
Can anyone tell me how good Rogue is by Epyx? How does it compare to the Advanced Rogue 5.8 (which offers character classes: fighter, cleric, magic-user and thief) designed to run on a mini? Is it better, about the same or worse? Thanks for your opinions. Jim Collymore
su01#@andrew.cmu.edu.UUCP (03/27/87)
I think it's way too mouse-based. Seems to me that it should be playable from the keyboard as well as with the mouse. Seems they did a poor job to me. --Stu Uleman (su01@andrew.cmu.edu)
chuq@plaid.UUCP (03/28/87)
In article <423@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes: >Can anyone tell me how good Rogue is by Epyx? How does it compare to the >Advanced Rogue 5.8 (which offers character classes: fighter, cleric, magic-user >and thief) designed to run on a mini? Is it better, about the same or worse? It is an average to poor implementation of rogue 5.3. No advanced features, and I don't think the user interface was well thought out for the Mac. I bought it when it first came out, and put it on the shelf after a week or so. chuq Chuq Von Rospach chuq@sun.COM [I don't read flames] There is no statute of limitations on stupidity
wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (03/30/87)
In article <423@atux01.UUCP> jlc@atux01.UUCP (J. Collymore) writes: >Can anyone tell me how good Rogue is by Epyx? How does it compare to the I have played a couple of games of Epyx Rogue and found it annoying. The graphics were cute with little pictures of walls, monsters etc. However, Rogue is one program where the keyboard is clearly superior to the mouse. Epyx Rogue requires you to use the mouse to move and thus requires you to bang away on the mouse constantly. The other problem is that the entire level will not fit on the screen at once so it can get confusing. No, it doesn't have any of the features of Adv Rogue. Pierce Wetter wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu -------------- My employer doesn't care about me posting to the net because I don't have one. --------- Fortune's nomination for All-Time Champion and Protector of Youthful Morals goes to Representative Clare E. Hoffman of Michigan. During an impassioned House debate over a proposed bill to "expand oyster and clam research," a sharp-eared informant transcribed the following exchange between our hero and Rep. John D. Dingell, also of Michigan. DINGELL: There are places in the world at the present time where we are having to artificially propagate oysters and clams. HOFFMAN: You mean the oysters I buy are not nature's oysters? DINGELL: They may or may not be natural. The simple fact of the matter is that female oysters through their living habits cast out large amounts of seed and the male oysters cast out large amounts of fertilization. HOFFMAN: Wait a minute! I do not want to go into that. There are many teenagers who read The Congressional Record. -------------------------------------------- wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu --------------------------------------------
pes@bath63.UUCP (03/31/87)
Epyx Rogue on the Atari ST allows use of the outr ring of digits on the numeric keypad to control movement. The various 'operator/enter' keys around the keypad allow 'search', 'sleep', 'up'(stairs), 'down', and 'fast/slow' (i.e. go until you find something/one step at a time). Also a toggle between display of the whole level and enlarged display of the immediate neighbourhood. (Use of the alt key does a temporary fast/slow toggle, as well.) I find this makes the game much nicer to play, though you've still (far as I've worked out, at least) got to use the mouse for interacting with the items in your pack. (I just make the pack window be the mouse window, and leave it there.) Best thing about it is that my lady-friend enjoys it -- which means she's stopped asking what I see in 'silly computer games'. (I hasten to add that she's generally computer-literate, but didn't see games...) It's (on the Atari, at least) a fairly straightforward port of traditional Unix Rogue (as doc'ed in the Unix manuals) bar the graphics, addition of the mouse, and (annoying) renaming of a few of the monsters. Besides, I think it's fun. (Though it comes on an uncopyable disk which you've got to run with write-enable -- don't much like that aspect.)
dturner@imagen.UUCP (04/04/87)
In article <2158@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter) writes: > >Can anyone tell me how good Rogue is by Epyx? How does it compare to the > I have played a couple of games of Epyx Rogue and found it annoying. The > requires you to use the mouse to move and thus requires you to bang away on the > mouse constantly. The other problem is that the entire level will not fit on the > screen at once so it can get confusing. on the 520st's verson of rogue, the numerical (sp?) key pad acts as the movement. also, try useing the enter key to switch to the "standerd" screen, i still think it is one of the best games i have seen. -- ---- It's not my planet monkey-boy Name: David R. Turner UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!imagen!dturner