I was kind of late getting into the computer scene, as I didn't get my first personal computer untill 1991, and never got online untill 1992. In 1993, I was...
Remark: The flavour of plain rogue I'm playing is "rogue-clone: Version III" (it's distributed with NetBSD which is a Linux-like operating system) Second...
Back in I believe the early 90's there was this game I was addicted to. It featured a randomly-generated dungeon like all roguelikes and used the full...
Hi Jason/themusicninja, Indeed it sounds really interesting. Deliciously retro. Leaving a lot of room for your imagination to make the monster more pretty than...
Thanks for responding, peoples. If I ever miraculously find it, I shall certainly post the title on this board for others to find. In the meantime, I'm...
Have you checked mobygames.com? It's an archive of many, many old games, including some that I've not seen for years. Jay ... lot ... you ... nothing ... ...
AHAH! AAAAAHHHHH! That's what it was! "Bob's Dragon Hunt!" I'd been searching and searching for years and FINALLY I've got the name of that sucker! Jay,...
Ya. I found it last night too. It's up in the files section of the group now. And that's right: Dosbox is the emulator to get. ( http://www.dosbox.com/ for...
Just generally lurking here, but I thought after reading this thread, "Isn't the net wonderful? Somebody initially just trying to recall the name of a favorite...
Is a fun game but finding out anything is so difficult, like slashem wouldn't work. Turned out I needed to install it in the same directory as nethack, but I...
If you want to drop an exact amount of items what you do is hit d then a number very quickly followed by the item letter. If you hit d and wait for more than...
Ah ok, thanks! Anyone know another front end like lizard 1.3 that shows line of sight and differentiates unexplored areas as different from dark areas? Lizard...
I set autopick up off since it causes you to pick up heavy corpses and chests (yet still strangely not gold) Also set it to show experience and weight. Is...
There is a file called defaults.nh in the gtkslashem installed folder, inside is a bunch of options you can set when the game loads. Read the manual it lists...
I renamed the default file to txt so I could edit it then I changed #OPTIONS=autopickup,pickup_types:$"=/!?+ to #OPTIONS=autopickup,pickup_types:$ Then took...
I didnt mean its the only front end i meant its only a front end meaning its not the game just an interface for the game and yes there are many out there for...
... exactly what it was before." I did, ... the game sees that." Well when I changed experience showing toggle that worked. ... syntax error in your autopickup...
I think slashem has a number of balance issues so I think I might switch back to nethack, meanwhile. What does "Sigil Of Tempest" do exactly? Yes I have been...
Hello all, Finally found an active group about rlrpg's, or at least I hope so. I'm a fan and lately I write my own rogue-like, called Artisan. I'll be happy to...
Privateer: Ascii Sector is a textmode remake of the classic Wing Commander: Privateer from 1993. It has space combat and semi-roguelike ground combat. You can...
I have deleted the messages as well...... can't be having that clog us up, what with all the messages recently......lol Good to hear you are still about...
