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omega(6) GAMES AND DEMOS omega(6)
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NAME
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omega - a hack-style game with quests.
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SYNOPSIS
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omega [save file]
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DESCRIPTION
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omega is a complex rogue-style game of dungeon exploration.
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Unlike other such games, there are a number of ways to
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"win", depending on various actions taken during play. The
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ways you can get your name on the hiscore board include
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becoming the highest ranked head of a guild, sect, college,
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etc., as well as gaining the most points figured from pos-
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sessions and experience. The game (via the oracle) may
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impose some structure on your exploration, but you need not
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follow all of the oracle's advice. There *is* a "total
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winner" status, by the way.
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If the save file is not specified, omega gives the player
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the choice of generating a random character, or playing
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themselves, doing a short quiz to determine an approximation
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of their abilities. If the save file is given, omega will
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restore that save file, and if successful, the save file is
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deleted. Note that some installations of omega compress the
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save file, using either compress(1) or gzip(1) - if this is
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the case, and you have a save file that is uncompressed
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(such files are generated by omega if it receives a signal
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during play, for example), you can compress it (with
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compress(1) or gzip(1)) and remove the .Z or .gz extension.
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Alternatively, you may simply run with the uncompressed save
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file - this will not affect the game in any way, but takes
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more disk space between games.
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omega offers a richness of playing detail that goes beyond a
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simple game like rogue. However, the majority of gameplay is
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very similar to rogue, hack, ultrarogue, larn, and other
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such games. The player is represented by the highlighted "@"
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symbol, objects and terrain features are represented by
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non-alphabetic symbols, monsters are represented by the
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various upper and lower case letters, and other humans are
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represented by a non-highlighted "@".
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omega currently consists of a countryside in which are sited
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a city, various villages, several dungeons, and some "spe-
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cial" sites, such as the temples of the various priesthoods.
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The game starts in the city of Rampart, where all the guilds
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have headquarters. As a dungeon is explored, all generated
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levels are saved in memory. However, only one dungeon is
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"remembered" at a time, so if you enter two dungeons, the
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first will be forgotten (it will be regenerated should you
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wish to enter it again). However, if a dungeon is "com-
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pleted", this fact will be remembered, basically meaning
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Sun Release 4.1 Last change: 1
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omega(6) GAMES AND DEMOS omega(6)
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that the unique monster at the bottom will not be regen-
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erated if you've killed it already.
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SEE ALSO
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compress(1), gzip(1), nethack(6)
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AUTHOR
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Laurence Brothers
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Sun Release 4.1 Last change: 2
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