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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 University 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.
MORIA(6)