davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) (03/17/84)
I'm not asking for it, just asking if it exists. I have not been able to find anything that looks like an encrypted password. More to the point, I have not been able to find a way to enter one if I found it. Our version of Rogue (5.2) does not recognize '^P', nor any other command as a password request. Has anyone actually found the password? -- David C. Kovar USNET: {linus|decvax|cornell}!dartvax!davidk ARPA: davidk%dartmouth@csnet-relay CSNET: davidk@dartmouth U.S. Snail HB 3140 Dartmouth College Hanover NH 03755 "The difficult we did yesterday, the impossible we are doing now."
grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman) (03/22/84)
In later versions of Rogue, all the wizard stuff is #ifdef'd in, and I suspect that the released version has all the wizard stuff compiled out (this is the opposite of compiled in, of course). "Wizard" commands are for debugging and don't belong in the normal game. Yes, at least one Rogue author still reads net.games.rogue (me). I don't know if Ken Arnold reads it anymore. Also, I stay in touch with Michael Toy & Jon Lane. By the way, the March issue of BYTE includes a short review of Rogue (for the IBM PC) by Jerry Pournelle. -Glenn
davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) (03/22/84)
[] Glenn suggests that the Wizard's stuff was compiled out of later releases of Rogue. After hacking away at our 5.3 sources for several hours, I would be forced to agree with him. The mach_dep.c and extern.h files contain declares for a boolean "Wizard" but it will not compile if you try and use that boolean because it is not declared in distrib.obj. A pity, but their right. That's only 5.3, by the way. 5.2 appears to have the code in it still. Instead of hacking the binary, which you would probably need a root for anyhow, it's far easier to hack the mach_dep.c stuff to set the Wizard boolean if you want it and then recompile. -- David C. Kovar USNET: {linus|decvax|cornell}!dartvax!davidk ARPA: davidk%dartmouth@csnet-relay CSNET: davidk@dartmouth U.S. Snail HB 3140 Dartmouth College Hanover NH 03755 "The difficult we did yesterday, the impossible we are doing now."
mats@dual.UUCP (Mats Wichmann) (03/23/84)
Last I looked, if you invoked Wizard's priveleges any time during a game, your score would NOT be recorded no matter how well you did. In fact playing as wizard is even lss challenging than playing with known bugs (arrow traps and such like) (you can kick your armor and weapon up so high nobody ever hits you and you kill ANYTHING with one swing). WHY BOTHER TO PLAY AT ALL IF THE CHALLENGE IS GONE???? Mats Wichmann Dual Systems Corp. ...{ucbvax,amd70,ihnp4,cbosgd,decwrl,fortune}!dual!mats It now became apparent (despite the lack of library paste) that something had happened to the vicar; [ Edward Gorey ]