Rogue

This is the classic Unix dungeon crawler Rogue, ported to the Macintosh by Rick Holzgrafe. It is a straight-forward port of the UC Berkeley public version maintained by Timothy Stoehr, presenting the original ASCII characters in a 24x80 terminal-emulator window with no Mac-specific graphics, menus, or shortcuts layered on top.

Lineage

Rogue was originally written by Ken Arnold, Michael Toy, and Glenn Wichman - the trio whose dungeon crawl gave the entire roguelike genre its name. This release tracks the BSD-derived Berkeley codebase that became the canonical free Unix Rogue.

Faithful presentation

Holzgrafe's port deliberately preserves the terminal experience: ASCII glyphs, an 80-column by 24-row window, and the original keyboard-driven command set. Players who learned Rogue on a VT100 will find nothing rearranged.

Requirements

Requires System 7 or later and is compatible with any Macintosh of that era - 68k or PowerPC, color or monochrome - thanks to the minimal terminal-style interface.

Licensing

In accordance with the UC Berkeley copyright that permits modification and redistribution but forbids profiting from the result, this Macintosh release is distributed as freeware.