sam@bu-cs.UUCP (Shelli Meyers) (05/20/85)
We've got a person here who's a total winner, too. However, rumour has it that he has the source code. Can anyone explain "wizard mode" to me? I'm not particulary great at rogue, but I've been playing straight all along.
herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) (05/22/85)
In article <400@bu-cs.UUCP> sam@bu-cs.UUCP (Shelli Meyers) writes: >We've got a person here who's a total winner, too. However, rumour >has it that he has the source code. Can anyone explain "wizard >mode" to me? I'm not particulary great at rogue, but I've been >playing straight all along. wizard mode is intended for debugging the game. depending on the version of rogue you have, there may or may not be a way of finding out the wizard's password. once you have been in wizard mode, it is no longer possible to get that game into the scorefile. Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!water!watdcsu!herbie CSNET: herbie%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: herbie%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa NETNORTH, BITNET, EARN: herbie@watdcs, herbie@watdcsu
sigma@usl.UUCP (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos) (05/23/85)
In article <400@bu-cs.UUCP> sam@bu-cs.UUCP (Shelli Meyers) writes: >We've got a person here who's a total winner, too. However, rumour >has it that he has the source code. Can anyone explain "wizard >mode" to me? I'm not particulary great at rogue, but I've been >playing straight all along. I don't think having the source code (in Rogue 5.3) helps much. I got it and I still am not a total winner. Having the Hack source helps much more, since it is much clearer to understand (for me) and hack has a lot more magic objects/situations in which source knowledge comes in handy (Engravings, Orcrists, dogs, etc). I think that after 1 1/2 years of rogue 5.3, it still finds silly ways to kill me. So far, ALL my really good games were ended by SILLY deaths: (1) level 13, ~4000 points, land in a party room and a Venus Flytrap next to you along with two C's. (2) level 18, str=19, +3 mace, 70+ hp, wiped out in ONE shot by a M. just wiped out, that's it. 4500 points at death. ..... et cetera In contrast I was a total winner in hack playing a "C", and that was with a lot of luck... (and no dogs or wands of wishing). Rogue will always find ways to kill you... Spiros /* dum Spiro Spero */ ut-sally!usl!sigma