roberts@r2me2.DEC (David Roberts) (03/20/84)
The wizard's password is not meant to be found or used. Its use is to enable the developers to 'debug' games. DaveR
dim@cbuxc.UUCP (Dennis McKiernan) (07/24/84)
I see that there is interest in the Wizard's Password.
A bit of background seems to be in order:
The Wizar'ds Password lets a player become a rogue "super user."
I.e., a Wizard can create rings, charge them up to a +10000
rating, go up or down through the levels of the dungeon at will,
etc.
But, playing a game as a Wizard results in NO SCORE.
If you successfully invoke the Wizard's Password,
you can play the game...and there will be no score when you finiosh.
Even if you become the Wizard, and then in the same game return
to being your old self (i.e., "uninvoke" yourself so that you are
no longer the Wizard), you still get no score.
It's kinda fun, however, to create a ring of protection,
zap it up to a +10000 rating (then nothing can hit you),
create a ring of add damage, zap it up to +10000 (then your bare fist
will destroy anything), create food as needed, and blast the hell out of
those things that always give you trouble.
But, I ask, whatever for?
Anyway, whoever put rogue up on your machine probably knows what
that version's Wizard's Password is...if he doesn't,
then he can get up as superuser and find it and make it anything
he wants to...Merlin, Gandalf, Modru, whatever...
The Wizard is a mechanism for debugging rogue...i.e., it lets
you play with super attributes so that you can get
to the area of the game where the bug's symptoms
appear...
Incidentally, the Wizard has a special set of commands available to
him so that he can create things, etc.
So that's the story, or part of it, and now maybe most of you who
have been asking about the Wizard's Password will have had your
curiosity piqued or slaked...
Warrow (ware row)
"But what about the Wolves, Will, what about the Wolves?"
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Qdavidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) (07/26/84)
Note of interest: our version of Rogue 5.3 that came with 4.2BSD
had the Wizard's stuff compiled out of it, or should I say never
compiled in it. I think the authors decided to put a few #ifdefs
in there...
--
David C. Kovar
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"The difficult we did yesterday, the impossible we are doing now."garret@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Trisha O Tuama) (08/05/84)
*****
) > Is there anyone out there with the
) > wizards password..
) > If so please post it for the benefit
) > of others.
)
) No.
)
) > thanks a lot
)
) Your welcome.
)
) Joe Kalash
) kalash@berkeley
) ucbvax!kalash
Gee, those Berkeley folks are clever!! (even if they can't spell)
I liked this one so much I saved it in my permanent rogue file!
(-:-)
Trisha
It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood!bwm@ccieng2.UUCP (Brad Miller) (08/07/84)
Actually, if you can get read access to the binary, you CAN become wizard AND record the win!!! -- ...[cbrma, rlgvax, ritcv]!ccieng5!ccieng2!bwm
edward@ukma.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) (02/24/85)
What you're asking for is how to decrypt a password. Unless you have several years to wait, don't bother trying, the UNIX encryption algorithm is too good. What we did was use adb to blast in a password of our choosing. edward ...cbosgd!ukma!edward