Rogue

There’s a great article on Rogue over at Gamasutra. It brings back a lot of memories, especially ones of sitting in the computer lab playing Rogue on the Engineering Vax. It so inspired me and a couple of friends that a few years later, around 1985, we coded up a version of Rogue for the CP-6 mainframe. We called our creation Lair. It was quite popular, relatively speaking. Unlike Rogue we opted for Pascal and it we had requests for it worldwide. It required the CP-6 Pascal compiler which was a bonus for my employer at the time, who actually wrote and sold CP-6 Pascal for the Honeywell CP-6 line.

To this day I bump into people who had a Honeywell CP-6 system in their building and played Lair without knowing that I was the primary programmer.

It’s interesting to look around the web and realize Rogue is still popular. I fired it up recently and I still find it fun to play. Hmm. I wonder if I can get Rog-o-matic working with it. That’s another cool program.

Ah, memories.

For the curious who want to sample the Dungeons of Doom, head over to the Rogue Like Development site.