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Rogue (Mac OS Classic)

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Title Screen

Rogue

Developer: A.I. Design
Publisher: Epyx
Platform: Mac OS Classic
Released in US: 1985


DevTextIcon.png This game has hidden development-related text.
GraphicsIcon.png This game has unused graphics.
TextIcon.png This game has unused text.
DebugIcon.png This game has debugging material.
PiracyIcon.png This game has anti-piracy features.


Rogue is the game that roguelikes are like.

Monster Descriptions

This unused flavor text appears in a set of 26 resources of type MTXT (presumably for "monster text"). The monsters' names aren't included, but the resource IDs are ASCII code for each creature's letter in classical text-based Rogue (65 = A = Aquator), making them easy to match up. Typos have been reproduced faithfully.

Aquator This normally aquatic creature has adapted to the environment of the Dungeons of Doom by continuously spraying it's surroundings with a liquid it secretes from the top of it's head. Seems relatively harmless.
Bat Fidgety, annoying creatures that seem to be lurking around every corner in the Dungeons of Doom.
Centaur Centaurs are peaceful creatures whose chief joys in life are eating and sleeping. When deprived of either of these things, they can be quite fierce.
Dragon Yendor kept a few of the behemoths in the deepest parts of the Dungeons. Besides their powerful bite, they have breath which can fry your hair at 60 feet.
Emu The presence of these large flightless birds in the Dungeons of Doom can only be explained by the legends of Yendor's bizzare sense of humor. Although they look harmless, they have a vicous kick.
Venus flytrap These prehistoric ancestors of the modern plant once ruled the planet. Now they survive only in the Dungeons of Doom.
Griffin Flying and clawing his way into your heart, this little fellow can render you into bird food in a matter of seconds. As you die, it will be a great comfort to know that Gryphons are mythical.
Hobgoblin These manlike creatures think that they own the upper levels of the Dungeons of Doom and greatly resent any intruders. They show this resentment by attempting to kill and eat any intruders they find.
Ice monster Yendor gathered mineral water from all over the world to make these chilling creatures. They can give you the cold shoulder from quite a distance.
Jabberwock Yendor was renowned for having the world's larget collection of these pernicious beasts. He was dissapointed when nobody came to see them.
Kestral These small falcons don't usually attack humans, but when driven by hunger and the frustration of being imprisoned in the Dungeons of Doom, they'll do anything.
Leprechaun These small, quick and intensely greedy creatures can not be tricked out of their gold. They can be beaten out of their gold, but they are more likely to walk away with some of your treasure.
Medusa Beware of this ugly beast. One look at the face of a medusa can reduce even the most experienced adventurer to a quivering pile of monster chow.
Nymph These sly creatures appear in the form of a human female. Once they take notice of you, guard your possesions, because nymphs have quick hands and an affinity for magical items.
Orc These fierce fighters were hired by Yendor to guard his underground treasure. Over the years they have come to regard the gold in the Dungeons as their own and will attack anyone seen carrying some.
Phantom These shadowy finds "live" deep in the Dungeons of Doom. Watch out for them, if you can.
Quagga If zoologists knew that these ancestors of the modern horse lived in the Dungeons of Doom, perhaps they'd attempt its horrors, just to get a look. These have been specially bred by Yendor for their fighting ability.
Rattlesnake These huge snakes do not bark, so watch out for their bite.
Slime Slowly, over many centuries, the garbage of the dungeon began to take on a life of it's own Now these lumpy beings meander endlessly through the halls ...
Troll Contrary to popular myth, these are not friendly.
Ur-vile Rumored to have been brought in from another dimension by Yendor. A massive mouth filled with razor-sharp teeth, fists the size of basketballs and an unquenchable appetite for human flesh. Not a pretty sight.
Vampire Shrouded in mist, these creatures live by draining away the life essence of their victims.
Wraith Although these creatures appear insubstantial, there is nothing insubstantial about their attacks, which can be quite draining.
Xeroc Another creatured rumored to have been brought by Yendor from another dimension. As you aleady know, they have the ability to disguise themselves as almost anything.
Yeti Imported from the highest Himalayan peks, long confinement in the dungeon has turned these normally placid creatures into fierce killers.
Zombie These creatures are the reanimated bodies of the once dead adventurers who didn't quite make it out of the Dungeons of Doom. A similar fate awaits you unless ...

CNTL resource 258 defines a button related to the missing monster examination feature, although its size is set at zero pixels:

Click here when you are finished looking at the creature

Eye Cursor

Wait, isn't that the ceiling lamp from Glider?

This ResEdit screenshot shows an unused cursor, its mask, and how it would appear against various backgrounds. The pixel marked with an "x" is its hot spot.

This might have been what you used to examine the monsters.

Photo

Rogue (Mac OS Classic) - Photo.png

PICT resource 6 is this photograph.

Debugging Tools

Resources for the traditional "wizard" debugging mode remain in the game, but there's no apparent way to activate them. In wizard mode, this menu would have been added to the menu bar...

Rogue (Mac OS Classic) - Wizard menu.png

...and the "Create Object" command would have invoked this dialog box (DLOG 109).

Rogue (Mac OS Classic) - Create Object.png

Also present are two error alerts that differ in severity. ("Mr. Mctesq" is a nickname of one of the creators, short for "Michael C. Toy, Esquire".)


(Source: Chuq Von Rospach)

Rogue (Mac OS Classic) - Mr. Mctesq is confused by this.png

Rogue (Mac OS Classic) - Fatal Error.png

Copy Protection

In later revisions of Epyx's Rogue for PCs, a pirated copy would field monsters that dealt six times as much damage, making it difficult to survive even one level. Your tombstone would then honor "Software Pirate, killed by Copy Protection Mafia".

The Macintosh version simply refuses to start until the master disk is supplied, but the strings "Software Pirate" and "Copy Protection Mafia" do exist in CODE resource 256. Apparently the PC anti-piracy scheme was either abandoned, or implemented as a second layer of protection that has yet to be discovered. (The only hacked version in circulation disables all signs of copy protection.)

Hidden Rank

CODE 256 also includes a list of character ranks, from "Guild Novice" up to "Wizard"... and then "Cheater". It's unknown what it takes to receive this title.