luong@tonto.DEC (Van Luong Nguyen UHO DTN 264-6560) (06/22/84)
Hi, I am a neophyte-but-dedicated rogue, and need help and teachings from more-experienced rogues on the following: 1. I have seen in this newsgroup reference to "sending/posting a copy of a winning game", with comments that this is good only for terminals on which the game was originally played, since it contained terminal-specific cursor control sequences. This seems to imply that it is possible during a game of Rogue to constantly save the screen output data received by the terminal into a file, for "replay" after the game is finished. Is this true? Is it a feature of Rogue or rather of the operating system hosting Rogue? Can it be done on VMS? How? 2. Are the colors of potions (eg. grey, vermilion, blue ...) and titles of scrolls (eg. "xcur teahdi akdsf"...) - which are described to you when you first found these potions or scrolls - consistent and always the same for each type of potion or scroll? I mean, for example, is the potion of healing always the same color? Does the scroll of "gods blessings" always have the same title when found? What about first descriptions of wands/staff? Thanks. Van Luong.
barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (06/25/84)
In article <1929@decwrl.UUCP> luong@tonto.DEC (Van Luong Nguyen UHO DTN 264-6560) writes: > 1. I have seen in this newsgroup reference to "sending/posting a copy >of a winning game", with comments that this is good only for terminals on which >the game was originally played, since it contained terminal-specific cursor >control sequences. >Is it a feature of Rogue >or rather of the operating system hosting Rogue? Can it be done on VMS? How? > This is done with OS features. On Unix(tm), people do it with "tee", which allows you to copy your output to a file. > 2. Are the colors of potions (eg. grey, vermilion, blue ...) >and titles of scrolls (eg. "xcur teahdi akdsf"...) - which are described to you >when you first found these potions or scrolls - consistent and always the same >for each type of potion or scroll? Within a game, yes. At the start of a game the scrolls and potions are randomly assigned gibberish names and colors. So you cannot carry this information from one game to another. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar