Aucbarpa.1152 net.games.rogue utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:hickman Fri Apr 16 19:51:31 1982 Origin of rogue, corrected Someone earlier stated that the origin of rogue is ucb...I would like to correct that notion. Rogue was originally designed and written by Michael C. Toy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. It was originally a pdp-11 only game and had two distribution sites: Santa Cruz and Cory Unix at Berkeley. Eventually, Michael joined the Arpa research group at berkeley and brought rogue with him. Rogue was then converted to run on the vax with the help of Ken Arnold. Eventually, rogue became both Michael's and Ken's (roughly version 3.7). Recently, Ken rewrote rogue essentially from scratch....This is roughly version 5.2 (or so)....... Rogue has evolved since its earlier days (when I first saw it, there were no fight routines, so when you bumped into a monster it printed "Fight" on the top line)... History lesson over... Kipp Hickman ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.