Nostalgy: the legendary role playing game: Rogue

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Back in the 1990s, ASCII based games (or, should I say ANSI?) were popular, and among them the classic "Rogue", which was a role-playing game (RPG) and a Dungeons & Dragons clone on the PC. As you can guess, I used to play the game quite often back then, but since I moved to Windows and another PCs, my Rogue game was lost, and I didn't have the time to dig it from my backup floppies. I don't know where I got the idea just today, but I found out that I missed by Rogue sessions, so it was time to find the game from the Internet. Luckily, I was able to succeed.

To get started with Rogue, you can download Rogue for MS-DOS (works also under Windows XP/Vista) as a ZIP file from ClassicGaming.com, and also directly from my site, in case the download link becomes unavailable in the mists of time. Happy gaming!

(It would be also interesting to port Rogue to C# and Windows Presentation Foundation. Volunteers, anybody?)