1218: A hideous noob's DOSBox tour of Rogue, Moria, and Angband!
4I'm still a roguelike noob, and also I have no idea what I'm doing. I liked the look of a couple DOS Moria/Angband ports I happened to see, and wanted to find out where it came from.
0:00 - start
2:05 - Rogue
22:50 - "! Supervisor Key (fake DOS)"
29:10 - Koeneke, Wilson, Kneller
59:02 - PC-Moria 4.873
1:13:17 - the checkerboard block (177 - Medium Shade)
1:36:23 - Castle Adventure
1:47:21 - Umoria 5.4c
2:09:26 - Umoria 5.5
2:18:53 - Umoria 5.5.2
2:33:11 - Umoria 5.2.2 386
2:39:35 - Umoria 5.7.15 (Windows terminal)
2:43:11 - Umoria 5.6 msvc3 (Windows terminal)
2:50:51 - Cutler, Astrand, Marsh, Hill, Teague
2:58:40 - Angband 2.4.Frog-knows 1.1
3:19:05 - PC Angband 1.2
3:56:59 - PC Angband 1.31
4:19:35 - PC Angband 1.4
4:42:39 - Angband 2.7.4
5:16:48 - Angband 2.8.0
5:47:38 - Angband 2.9.0
6:10:00 - Angband 3.0.6
6:18:40 - Angband 4.2.4-162x ASCII (Cygwin GCU)
6:22:59 - Angband 4.2.4-162x tiles (MSYS2 SDL2)
6:24:19 - frognose
(Angband 4.2.4-162x built from more recent untagged source code, and with a slightly customized title screen.)
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I downloaded the following files from the following places for this:
- DOSBox from https://www.dosbox.com
- PC-Moria 4.873 from https://www.myabandonware.com/game/moria-27f
- Umoria 5.4, 5.5, and 5.5.2 DOS versions and various source files from http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/unix/games/moria/ (operated by "CSC, the Finnish IT center for science"--Finnish government)
- Moria 5.5.2 386, aka the DJGPP port ("DJGPP is a 32-bit, protected-mode compiler, which means that programs compiled under it require an 80386 or higher to run"), from https://archive.org/details/m552-386
- Umoria 5.6 Windows port from https://github.com/HunterZ/umoria/releases
- Various Umoria source files from https://umoria.org/highlights/
- Angband DOS versions and various source files from https://rephial.org/release -- but the download link there for 2.4.Frog-knows 1.1 is typoed, with a 2 at the end instead of a 1; the actual link for it is: https://github.com/angband/angband/releases/download/v2.4.fk/pcangband-1.1.zip
- Current Angband from https://github.com/angband/angband/
- The 1984 DOS freeware game Castle Adventure from https://dosgames.com/game/castle-adventure/
^^ Those are free software. This one cost a couple bucks:
- Rogue - 1985 DOS Epyx 1.49 version from https://store.steampowered.com/app/1443430/Rogue/
I used information from umoria.org, rephial.org, John Harris' Moria and Angband articles on his setsideb.com blog, Wikipedia's Code page 437, Rogue, Moria, and Angband articles, newsgroup posts on the aforementioned Moria groups, or on rec.games .roguelike.angband (remove the space), by Sean Marsh, David J. Grabiner, Ben Shadwick, Ben Harrison, Karl S. Hagen, Geoff Hill, Robert Alan Koeneke, Charles Swiger*, James E. Wilson, Charles F. Teague II, and David G. Kahane, Ben Shadwick's HunterZ github, Rühlmann's thangorodrim.net via archive.org, the Angband Variants Table by Tangar Igroglaz, mentioned earlier, and from files in the releases I downloaded from the sites listed at the top.
My full notes:
http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?p=159818&postcount=98
Notes on running some of these DOS ports now:
- The Moria 5.5.2-386 DOS port and the Angband 2.7.4 through 3.0.6 DOS ports chew up a lot of CPU in DOSBox--at least one of those Angband ports also mentioned being compiled for 386 processors, so maybe whatever that involves just forces a lot more work out of DOSBox
- Renaming the containing directory of PC-Moria 4.873 will prevent it from being able to load a previous save file (but it can run without one)
- The Frog-knows DOS aka PC Angband 1.1 and 1.2 README.PC files say the user should create a subdirectory called "bones" before running the game; this would be for storing dead characters to bring back to attack later characters as Frog-knows' "ghosts"
11/26/22
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