Moria

The Dungeons of Moria is a single player dungeon simulation originally written by Robert Alan Koeneke, with its first public release in 1983. The game was originally developed using VMS Pascal before being ported to the C language by James E. Wilson in 1988, and released as Umoria . Moria/Umoria has had many variants over the years, with Angband being the most well known. Umoria was also an inspiration for one the most commercially successful action roguelike games, Diablo ! Compiling and limited testing has been done for other Linux based system including NetBSD 8.1 and Fedora 32. The main focus of the 5.7.0 release was to provide support for the three main operating systems: Windows, macOS, and Linux. Support for all other outdated computer systems such as MS DOS, "Classic" Mac OS (pre OSX), Amiga, and Atari ST was removed. Note: there have been no intentional gameplay changes in the 5.7.x releases. Since the initial 5.7 release, a great deal of code restoration has been undertaken in the hope of aiding future development of the game. Some examples of the work done include reformatting the source code with the help of clang-tidy and clang-format , modernizing the code to use standard C types, breaking apart most large functions (many of which had hundreds of lines of code) into smaller, easier to read functions, and fixing all compiler warnings when compiling against recent versions of GCC and Clang. Full details of all changes can be found in the CHANGELOG, and by browsing the commit history. Due to its lack of Windows and macOS support Moria was inaccessible to many people. Hopefully these changes will give many more people a chance to play this classic roguelike game. Umoria has been tested against GCC ( 10 and 11 ) and with ncurses 6.x , although recent earlier versions should also work fine. You will need these as well as CMake and the C++ build tools for your system. An umoria directory will be created in the current directory containing the game binary and data files, which can then be moved to any other location, such as the home directory. As with the macOS/Linux builds, all files will be installed into an umoria directory. Most of the original document files included in the Umoria 5.6 sources have been placed in the historical directory. You will even find the old CHANGELOG, which tracks all code changes made between versions 4.81 and 5.5.2 (1987-2008). If you'd like to learn more on the development history of Umoria, these can make for interesting reading. There is also the original Moria Manual and FAQ. Although these are a little outdated now they are certainly worth reading as they contain a lot of interesting and useful information. For details on how to contribute to the Umoria project, please read our contributing guide. In 2007 Ben Asselstine and Ben Shadwick started the free-moria project to re-license UMoria 5.5.2 under GPL-2 by obtaining permission from all the contributing authors. A year later they succeeded in their goal and in late 2008 official maintainer David Grabiner released Umoria 5.6 under a GPL-3.0-or-later license.