Rogue for VIC-20

Descend into the Dungeons of Doom

Somewhere below the 26th level lies the Amulet of Yendor. Find it, then fight your way back to the surface alive.

Rogue for VIC-20 is a faithful port of Rogue 5.4, the game that gave its name to an entire genre, rebuilt from scratch for the Commodore VIC-20 with a 32K expansion. Every game is different, every level is generated on the fly, and death is always one careless step away.

Features

• Random dungeons: rooms, winding corridors, dead ends, secret doors, hidden traps, and dark rooms where you see only what is next to you.
• 26 monsters following the original rules. Some sleep until you disturb them, others hunt you on sight. They steal, poison, freeze, drain your life, or disguise themselves as treasure. Dragons breathe fire.
• Over 70 items: weapons (including bow, arrows and darts), armour, scrolls, potions, rings and magic wands.
• Unidentified magic: coloured potions, gemstone rings, wands of strange woods and metals, scrolls with Latin titles. Use them to learn what they do, and beware of curses.
• 14-slot inventory window with stacking and highlighted usable items.
• Save and load to disk at any time.
• Hand-drawn graphics: a custom character set for every monster and item; your hero changes look with the weapon in hand.
• Atmosphere: a multicolour loading picture with an original eerie soundtrack, a tombstone for your demise, and the Amulet for your victory.

Controls

Key	Action
Q W E / A D / Z S C	move and attack in 8 directions
.	rest and search
F	fight in a direction
I	inventory
U / V / T	wield weapon / wear armour / take off armour
P	put on or remove a ring
R / B / M	read / drink / eat
O	zap a wand
G	throw
L	drop
F1 / F3	save / load game

How to play

• On real hardware: a VIC-20 with 32K expansion (blocks 1, 2, 3 and 5) and a disk drive. Type LOAD"*",8,1 and then RUN.
• On an emulator: in VICE (xvic), enable the memory expansion in blocks 1, 2, 3 and 5, then drag rogue.d64 onto the window to autostart.

The illustrated manual (Italian) explains every command, item and monster.

Credits

Coded by Lorenzo Vivarelli · www.vareseretrocomputing.it  · www.vivarelli.it
Based on the rules of Rogue 5.4.