mac@tesla.UUCP (06/09/84)
From: mac (Michael Mc Namara)
Rogue 5.3 uses various control keys for "running" to various
directions. These control characters are, as you know, ^H, ^Y, ^K,
^U, ^L, ^N, ^J & ^B. Now in 4.2 BSD, ^Y is dsusp, which is a delayed
{nice} suspend to the cshell. See stty for more on this. So, if a ^Y
gets through the rogue program to the shell, it will begin suspending
the game. To avoid this, I wrote a shell script, put it in /usr/local,
which does a `stty dsusp u` then calls /usr/games/rogue. After the
game it does a `stty dsusp ^Y`. The shell script I wrote also keeps
track of who plays rogue, how often etc :-)
We also have a number of Data General terminals, which use
^M in their hardware cursor movements. Therefore, if your stty standard
is stty -nl, curses will not work for these terminals. This affects all
curses based games. `stty nl` before the game *fixes* this.
I include a brief shell script to perform these fixes:
################################################################
# Allows rogue to work on DG terminals Plus other enhancements #
################################################################
onintr QUIT
# fix for rogue bug: ^Y is up left, and also dsusp; so unset dsusp & susp
stty dsusp u susp u
# set up for dg450 & dg200
if ($term == "dg450") then
stty nl
endif
else if ($term == "dg200") then
stty nl
endif
endif
set in = ""
while ( $in == "" )
# run rogue
PLAY:
/usr/games/rogue $*
switch ($1)
case "-r":
set argv[1] = ""
breaksw
case "":
breaksw
case "-d":
breaksw
case "-s":
goto QUIT
breaksw
default :
set argv[1] = ""
breaksw
endsw
echo -n "Again? [y]"
set in = ( $< )
if ( $in == "y") set in = ""
end
QUIT:
stty dsusp `^Y` susp `^Z` /* actually type control Y and control Z */
stty -nl
###################################### -----
# # |..,|
# ######@+MAC|
#########% |...|
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Level: 26 Gold: 7578 Hp: 76(80) Str: 20(20) Arm: 10 Exp:12/15640brian@uwvax.ARPA (06/09/84)
This "fix" might help somewhat, but notice that the save bug will *still*
occur (mostly on levels below 13) and is often preceded the inventory bug.
Brian Pinkerton @ wisconsin
brian@wisc-rsch.arpa
...!{ihnp4, seismo, heurikon, allegra}!uwvax!brian