Rogue Clone

Rogue Clone is based on the original UNIX version of Rogue and was originally created by Timothy Stoehr for UNIX. He released the first version (then called i_rogue Version 1.0) on the usenet newsgroup net.sources.games on Feb 26th, 1986. As Stoehr says: "I wrote this code out of disgust for the inexcusable number of bugs that rogue 5.3 is famous for. I wrote this to eliminate the bugs as well as to get rid of some other things I didn't care for." When releasing the second version, he wrote: "I personally hate groping around in dark rooms."

Rogue Clone II was released on newsgroup net.sources.games on November 25, 1986, and on comp.sources.games on May 11, 1987. Shortly after, Stoehr posted two patches to fix bugs and portability issues. The source of this version was often used for ports.

Stoehr donated the last version of the original Rogue Clone to Berkeley University around October 1987. Berkeley first released Rogue Clone III in Juni 1988 with the official distribution of 4.3BSD Tahoe UNIX. (The release 4.2 of BSD UNIX had been distributed with Rogue 5.3 earlier.).