Re: [TUHS] First machine to run rogue?

[Jon Forrest <nobozo@gmail.com>]

On 7/9/21 8:17 PM, Mary Ann Horton wrote:
> As I recall, Rogue began to appear in late 1980 or early 81 at Berkeley. 
> I primarily remember it on the Vax. But I thought Toy et al originally 
> wrote it at UCSB and then it came to UCB. 

I was at UCSB from the time the first Unix machine arrived until
1985. I'm not aware of any Rogue activity there.

> The source was widely available and widely customized. I think I brought 
> a copy with me to Bell Labs in 1981 where Bob Flandrena eventually 
> sprouted the "brogue" variant. Some of the monsters could eat into the 
> walls between rooms, and when there was a line of several chasing you 
> down a hallway, one or two of them would pull around to pass... Brogue 
> worked on my new curses, it was in effect part of the test.

I heard there was a version that contained Ed Gould roaming around.

Jon