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This page contains information for all known Rogue-like ports for Pocket PC.

Alphabetical listing:

bulletAngband CE
bulletnanRogue
bulletNetHack
bulletPocket Rogue

Angband CE

It's a freeware computer dungeon exploration game based (loosely) on the books of J.R.R.Tolkien. You explore a very deep dungeon, kill monsters, try to equip yourself with the best weapons and armor you can find, and finally face Morgoth - "The Dark Enemy". Angband has a very long history. It started in 1990 as an improved and "Tolkienized" variant of Moria. Moria itself was created in 1985 and was inspired by Rogue (from the early 1980s). Countless changes were introduced by many programmers on the way to the current versions of Angband.

The word Angband means "Iron Hell" or "Iron Prison" from the prefix 'ang-' = Iron (like in 'Angrist' = Iron-cleaver) and from '-band' = Hell or Prison in Sindarin (one of the languages Tolkien created).

 

Port Release: Unknown  14th June 2001
Source Release: 3.0.3  25th January 2003
Source Maintainer: Robert Rühlmann
Ported By: Bolt Vanderhuge
Features: infinite random dungeon.  unique monsters and artifacts.

Downloads:

Links:
Official Homepage
Unofficial Homepage
Port Homepage


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nanRogue

 

A long time ago, on a computer system far, far, away, there was Rogue. Players wander a dungeon, hacking and slashing at monsters, gaining treasures, becoming more powerful, and live their D&D nightmares. The game is a single-user, fantasy role-playing computer game, set in a dungeon, run with a simple character-graphic interface. The player controls a single character, who roams around getting more powerful, in order to fulfill a difficult quest. Sword-and-sorcery rule the day. See also, Pocket Rogue.

The name "Rogue" was created by Glenn Wichman as he paired with the first rogue-like programmer Michael Toy in 1980.

Port Release: 0.9 (5.3 source)  10th January 2002
Source Release: 5.3-clone  N/A 1984?
Source Maintainer: Tim Stoehr
Ported By: Geoff Dunbar
Features: This is where it all started.

Downloads:

0.9 MIPS for Windows CE 2.11/3.0, PocketPC 2000/2002
0.9 SH3 for Windows CE 2.11/3.0, PocketPC 2000/2002
0.9 ARM for Windows 3.0, PocketPC 2000/2002

Links:

Official Homepage
Unofficial Homepage
Port Homepage
 

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NetHack

NetHack is a single player dungeon exploration game. Unlike many other Dungeons & Dragons-inspired games, the emphasis in NetHack is on discovering the detail of the dungeon and not simply killing everything in sight - in fact, killing everything in sight is a good way to die quickly. Each game presents a different landscape - the random number generator provides an essentially unlimited number of variations of the dungeon and its denizens to be discovered by the player in one of a number of characters: you can pick your race, your role, and your gender.

NetHack is a direct descendant of the games Hack and Rogue. The "Net" in NetHack refers to its development by a team of programmers in the usenet community.

 

Port Release: 3.4.2  31st August 2003
Source Release: 3.4.2  31st August 2003
Source Maintainer: NetHack DevTeam
Ported By: Alex Kompel
Features: Everything including the kitchen sink (literally)

Downloads:
Version 3.4.2 for Windows CE 3.0, PocketPC 2000/2002
Version 3.4.1 for Windows CE 3.0, PocketPC 2000/2002

Links:
Official Homepage
Unofficial Homepage
Port Homepage
 

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Pocket Rogue

Like nanRogue, this is a port of the classic Rogue game--the simplest and perhaps easiest of the Rogue-like games you could play. Pocket Rogue is still in Beta and has been for some time now, but it allows editing of the tile set. This allows you to replace the ASCII characters with your own custom graphics.

The BSD UNIX distribution 4.2 in 1980 included a binary version of Rogue. At that time there was no other freely available game like it and so became the most popular game on college campuses.

 

Port Release: 0.6 Beta 12th April 2003
Source Release: 5.3-clone  N/A 1984?
Source Maintainer: Tim Stoehr?
Ported By: Runic Software
Features: Custom tiles can replace ASCII characters.

Downloads:

0.6 Beta for PocketPC 2002

Links:

Official Homepage
Unofficial Homepage
Port Homepage

 

 

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