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MORIA(6)							   Games Manual 							  MORIA(6)

NAME

       moria - a dungeon game

SYNOPSIS

       moria [ -o ] [ -r ] [ -s ] [ -S ] [ -n ] [ -w ] [ savefile ]

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.

       The ultimate object of moria is to kill the Balrog, which dwells on the 50th level of the dungeon, 2,500 feet  underground.   Most  players
       never even reach the Balrog, and those that do seldom live to tell about it.

       For a more complete description of the game, read the document The Dungeons of Moria.

       By  default, moria will save and restore games from a file called moria.save in your home directory.  If the environment 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 explicitly specify a savefile on the command line.

       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.

       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 override defaults stored in  the  savefile.	If
       these options are given multiple times, only the last one will take effect.

       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.

       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.

AUTHORS

       The original version of Moria was written in VMS/Pascal by Robert Alan Koeneke, Jimmey Wayne Todd, Gary McAdoo, and others at  the  Univer-
       sity  of  Oklahoma.  This version was written by Jim Wilson at the University of California, Berkeley, and released with minor revisions by
       David Grabiner at Harvard University.

BUGS

       A suspended game that gets a hangup signal will die without creating a save file.

       Rerolling with a % at the class prompt not implemented.

       For a more comprehensive list, see the ERRORS file in the source distribution.

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NAME

       omega - a hack-style game with quests.

SYNOPSIS

       omega [save file]

DESCRIPTION

       omega  is  a  complex  rogue-style game of dungeon exploration.	Unlike other such games, there are a number of ways to "win", depending on
       various actions taken during play. The ways you can get your name on the hiscore board include becoming the highest ranked head of a guild,
       sect,  college, etc., as well as gaining the most points figured from possessions and experience. The game (via the oracle) may impose some
       structure on your exploration, but you need not follow all of the oracle's advice. There *is* a "total winner" status, by the way.

       If the save file is not specified, omega gives the player the choice of generating a random character, or playing themselves, doing a short
       quiz  to  determine  an approximation of their abilities.  If the save file is given, omega will restore that save file, and if successful,
       the save file is deleted.  Note that some installations of omega compress the save file, using either compress(1) or gzip(1) - if  this	is
       the  case,  and you have a save file that is uncompressed (such files are generated by omega if it receives a signal during play, for exam-
       ple), you can compress it (with compress(1) or gzip(1)) and remove the .Z or .gz extension.  Alternatively, you may  simply  run  with  the
       uncompressed save file - this will not affect the game in any way, but takes more disk space between games.

       omega  offers  a richness of playing detail that goes beyond a simple game like rogue. However, the majority of gameplay is very similar to
       rogue, hack, ultrarogue, larn, and other such games. The player is represented by the highlighted "@" symbol, objects and terrain  features
       are  represented by non-alphabetic symbols, monsters are represented by the various upper and lower case letters, and other humans are rep-
       resented by a non-highlighted "@".

       omega currently consists of a countryside in which are sited a city, various villages, several dungeons, and some "special" sites, such	as
       the  temples  of  the  various priesthoods. The game starts in the city of Rampart, where all the guilds have headquarters. As a dungeon is
       explored, all generated levels are saved in memory. However, only one dungeon is "remembered" at a time, so if you enter two dungeons,  the
       first will be forgotten (it will be regenerated should you wish to enter it again). However, if a dungeon is "completed", this fact will be
       remembered, basically meaning that the unique monster at the bottom will not be regenerated if you've killed it already.

SEE ALSO

       compress(1), gzip(1), nethack(6)

AUTHOR

	      Laurence Brothers

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