VLarn

VLarn is a free roguelike dungeon crawl adventure game, similar in concept to Hack, Rogue, or Moria, but with a different philosophy, feel, and winning criteria.

Lineage

VLarn is an Ultra-Larn derivative, descended from Julian Olds' ULarn 1.6.3a, which is descended from David Richerby's, Josh Brandt's, and Josh Bressers' ULarn 1.5.4, which is descended from Phil Cordier's ULarn 2.0, which is descended from Noah Morgan's Larn 12, with James McNamara's patches.

Features

VLarn includes both a graphical tiled interface, as well as a classic ASCII text UI, with optional menu items for most commands.

Availability

VLarn is currently available for Unix, Windows, and Amiga systems.

Ports are currently in the works for Multics, Atari ST, and OpenVMS.

Like ULarn 1.6, VLarn is easily portable to different systems, with all system-dependent code isolated in separate modules.

History

VLarn is a direct descendant of Julian Olds' ULarn 1.6 branch.

Distribution

Issue Tracking

You may contact the VLarn maintainer, Jeffrey H. Johnson, via e-mail at <trnsz@pobox.com>, with bug reports or questions. Please include 'VLarn' in the Subject line.

Name and Branding

To avoid user confusion or version clashes with other Larn/ULarn derivatives, the next release of VLarn will be VLarn 5.0.0.

This future release will incorporate changes and additions from Josh Bressers' ULarn 1.7, as well as Nathan Tenny's 'Variant ULarn' release 1.5.4.

New features in VLarn 5-alpha

Adjusted maps to not require diagonal movements.
Extended time limits
Tweaked carrying capacity
Increased checkpoint frequency
Lemmings less aggressive
Modified scoreboard system
Removed Dealer McDope's pad
Negative score prevention
Various bits of code clean-up
Default to ncurses (legacy curses remains supported)

New features in ULarn 1.6 Patchlevel 3a

Windows message using GetMessage instead of PeekMessage
Fixed an end-of-game winners' scoreboard bug

New features in ULarn 1.6 Patchlevel 3

Resurrected curses-based (ASCII text/TTY) interface
Amiga (AGA) port
Improved graphic tile set
Display improvements for Windows systems
Potion of Heroism and Coke now correctly wear off
Ring of Strength enchantment level corrections
Winner's Scoreboard expanded
Larn Revenue Service back taxes can now be paid
Enhanced text formatting for paying taxes
Corrected output of error messages during initialization
Fixed bugs in Vaporise Rock spell for difficulty level 4+
Removed unneeded function calls causing extra map redraws
Fixed calculation of AC and WC when destroying armor or weapons

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