[TUHS] First machine to run rogue?

[Mary Ann Horton]

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. It was written for the Arnold 
curses, and served as the first major application to test it out.

I loved that game. Still do, although I rarely find time to play it 
anymore. It's widely available on web emulators these days, just search 
for "play rogue online". It will likely be the color DOS version, but it 
plays roughly the same.

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 suite.

Eric, of course, is the authority noting that ing70 was "i" and, as I 
recall, ingvax was "j".

     Mary Ann

On 7/2/21 2:09 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 9:07 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com 
> <mailto:clemc at ccc.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 8:15 AM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com
>     <mailto:crossd at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         It is; it looks like it was first distributed with
>         4.3BSD-Tahoe. The sources there are listed as "public domain
>         rogue", but I'm not sure about the provenance of that code.
>
>     That sounds right, you should ask Ken Arnold offline, I bet he had
>     a better idea.He would have made them available to Keith.
>
>
> Great idea. I reached out on linked in, but don't have an email 
> address for Ken. Anyone have his contact information?
>
> I'm curious if e.g. Mary Ann has any thoughts here, since she took 
> over maintaining curses at some point and might have gotten some of 
> the inside story?
>
> Thanks for the responses so far, all.
>
>         - Dan C.
>
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