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- MORIA(6) GAMES AND DEMOS MORIA(6)
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- NAME
- moria - a dungeon game
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- SYNOPSIS
- moria [ -o ] [ -r ] [ -s ] [ -S ] [ -n ] [ -w ] [ savefile ]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Moria plays a dungeon game with you. It lets you generate a
- character, lets you buy equipment, and lets you wander in a
- fathomless dungeon while finding treasure and being attacked
- by monsters and fellow adventurers. Typing ? gives you a
- list of commands.
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- The ultimate object of moria is to kill the Balrog, which
- dwells on the 50th level of the dungeon, 2,500 feet under-
- ground. Most players never even reach the Balrog, and those
- that do seldom live to tell about it.
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- For a more complete description of the game, read the docu-
- ment The Dungeons of Moria.
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- By default, moria will save and restore games from a file
- called moria.save in your home directory. If the environ-
- ment variable MORIA_SAV is defined, then moria will use that
- file name instead of the default. If MORIA_SAV is not a
- complete path name, then the savefile will be created or
- restored from the current directory. You can also expli-
- citly specify a savefile on the command line.
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- If you use the -n option, moria will create a new game,
- ignoring any savefile which may already exist. This works
- best when a savefile name is specified on the command line,
- as this will prevent moria from trying to overwrite the
- default savefile (if it exists) when you try to save your
- game.
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- You move in various directions by pressing the numeric
- keypad keys, VMS-style. If you specify -r, you move the
- same way you do in rogue(6). You can also specify -o to
- force the VMS-style command set. These options will over-
- ride defaults stored in the savefile. If these options are
- given multiple times, only the last one will take effect.
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- If you specify -s, moria prints all of the scores in the
- score file and exits. On a multiuser system, if you specify
- -S, moria prints prints only those scores belonging to you
- and then exits.
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- If you specify -w, moria will start up in wizard mode. You
- can resurrect a dead character by using this option when
- starting the game. Resurrected characters are teleported to
- the town level and given zero hitpoints. Wizard mode is
- intended for debugging the game, and for experimenting with
- new features. Any other use is considered cheating. Games
- played with wizard mode are not scored.
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- AUTHORS
- The original version of Moria was written in VMS/Pascal by
- Robert Alan Koeneke, Jimmey Wayne Todd, Gary McAdoo, and
- others at the University of Oklahoma. This version was
- written by Jim Wilson at the University of California,
- Berkeley, and released with minor revisions by David Gra-
- biner at Harvard University.
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- BUGS
- A suspended game that gets a hangup signal will die without
- creating a save file.
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- Rerolling with a % at the class prompt not implemented.
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- For a more comprehensive list, see the ERRORS file in the
- source distribution.
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