10 Jul
2021
10 Jul
'21
7:04 a.m.
On 7/9/21 8:17 PM, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
As I recall, Rogue began to appear in late 1980 or
early 81 at Berkeley.
I primarily remember it on the Vax. But I thought Toy et al originally
wrote it at UCSB and then it came to UCB.
I was at UCSB from the time the first Unix machine arrived until
1985. I'm not aware of any Rogue activity there.
The source was widely available and widely customized.
I think I brought
a copy with me to Bell Labs in 1981 where Bob Flandrena eventually
sprouted the "brogue" variant. Some of the monsters could eat into the
walls between rooms, and when there was a line of several chasing you
down a hallway, one or two of them would pull around to pass... Brogue
worked on my new curses, it was in effect part of the test.
I heard there was a version that contained Ed Gould roaming around.
Jon