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Section - 4.) List of older roguelike games

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Listed below are the older roguelike games.  These games have not been
updated in several years.  This is either because people lost interest
in them, or because they're perfect and don't need updates  :-)

GAME:      BOSS 
Release:   2.0 (07/92)
Newsgroup: rec.games.roguelike.moria (was rec.games.moria)
FTP Site:  ftp://ftp.cis.ksu.edu:/pub/Games/Moria/BOSS/
FAQ Avail: At the ftp site
Spoilers:  At the ftp site
Platforms: VMS, Mac (beta)
Features:  Cyberpunk Moria
Misc:      "A game you can win in a weekend"
           Mac beta version supported by markv@isy.liu.se 

GAME:      Keep
Release:   Not publically available. 
Newsgroup: rec.games.roguelike.misc
FTP Site:  None. 
FAQ Avail: ? 
Spoilers:  ?
Platforms: ?
Features:  Escape from a keep, starting in the garden
Misc:      Last sighted at UCSC in 1991
	   Cannot be released for legal reasons. 

GAME:      Larn 
Release:   12.2 was posted to comp.sources.games 
Newsgroup: rec.games.roguelike.misc
FTP Site:  ftp.uu.net:/usenet/comp.sources.games/volume11/larn (192.48.96.9)
           ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/pub/msdos/games/adventures/
           ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/msdos/games/adventures/
           ftp://atari.archive.umich.edu/
	   ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/games/larn/
FAQ Avail: ? 
Spoilers:  ?
Web:       http://www.win.tue.nl/games/roguelike/larn/index.html
Platforms: PCs, Unix, Atari ST, Amiga, more? 
Features:  Time-limited quest; no character classes; variable difficulty
Misc:      Good beginner game.  Executables I've seen have exploitable bugs. 
           Ularn is a descendant of Larn, adding character classes. 

GAME:      Lore
Release:   ? 
Newsgroup: rec.games.roguelike.misc
FTP Site:  ?
FAQ Avail: ? 
Spoilers:  ?
WWW:       ?
Maint.:    ?
Platforms: IBM mainframe 
Features:  Dungeon + wilderness section with villages
Misc:      Last sighted at the University of Iowa in 82-84.  Can't save
           unless your character is in a village.

GAME:      Rogomatic
Release:   ? 
Newsgroup: rec.games.roguelike.rogue
FTP Site:  ftp.uu.net:/pub/games/rogomatic.tar.Z
           ftp://nl.cs.cmu.edu/usr/mlm/ftp/
FAQ Avail: ? 
WWW:       See the Rogue page for details:
           http://www.win.tue.nl/games/roguelike/rogue/
	   Or the original paper:
	   http://fuzine.mt.cs.cmu.edu/mlm/rgm84.html
Spoilers:  This *is* a spoiler!
Platforms: Unix; "should run on a NeXT, a Sun, and Vaxes"
Features:  Plays rogue for you!  Well!
Misc:      *Very* version-dependant, apparently

GAME:      Rogue
Release:   5.3 ? 
Newsgroup: rec.games.roguelike.rogue (was rec.games.rogue)
FTP Site:  Only "officially" released as VAX binaries with BSD Unix
           ftp.uu.net:usenet/comp.sources.games/volume1/rogue (Stoehr clone)
           ftp://macbeth.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/pub/      } 1984 PC port (Lane)
           ftp://ftp.digex.net/pub/access/buglady/ } v 1.1 Mr.McTesq
WWW:       http://www.win.tue.nl/games/roguelike
FAQ Avail: ? 
Spoilers:  ?
Platforms: Unix, PC, Atari ST, Amiga (by Epyx); Mac version 'in progress'
Features:  ?
Misc:      This is where it all started; urogue and srogue and bugs, oh my!


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