And it is not a re-imagining, update verions, enhanced or anything version, it is the original Rogue v1.49 as released by Epyx in 1985 for IBM computers, with shiny ACII and all

This is the game that created a whole genre, and that we today, 35 years later, still use to descirbe other games (i.e. rogue-lite, rogue-like and so on). So if you mised it the first time and wondered what it is all about - this is the time to try it (ignoring all the free versions flouting out there)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1443430/Rogue/

Well, there are several remakes out there already. Like Moria/Angband, that always have been free.
Or NetHack, which is a successor with more complexity and which contains the original rogue as one of it's many sublevels.

I still have my floppy for this. If Rogue is also coming here, that's an instant buy for me.

Not sure why Pixel Games still hasn't released any of their titles on GoG.
The ratio of old farts who actually give a toss and buy those ancient artefacts vs. the majority that couldn't care less surely must be in the same ballpark, if not higher here than on the other platform.

Rogue | Rogue
Temple of Apshai
California Games
California Games II
The Games: Winter Edition
Hungry Horace
Horace Goes Skiing
Impossible Mission II
Lost Patrol
Battle Command
Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces
Voyeur

Wow. I had this on the C64 and Amiga.
(I secretly thought the C64 version looked better)

You mean oROGUEnal?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DC9xez5pxU

So the original game probably with dosbox to run it with, and... hmmm....

Though you can probably download it for free elsewhere, so i am not sure why...

Because the original Rogue actually was never released as open source or free download. Yes, it floats around on a lot of 'abandonware' sites. But it was never legally released to the public domain. So, strictly speaking, all Rogue downloads are illegal, even if no one prosecutes them.

But the remakes/successors I mentioned are 100% open source.

Well. We have this:

https://www.oryxdesignlab.com/games/

And according to this:

From the Oryx Design Lab website:

"Rogue (also known as Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom) is a dungeon crawling video game by Michael Toy and Glenn Wichman and later contributions by Ken Arnold. Rogue was originally developed around 1980 for Unix-based mainframe systems as a freely-distributed executable, and later included in the official Berkeley Software Distribution 4.2 operating system (4.2BSD). Windows port by Donnie Russell."

"'In collaboration with Donnie Russell (who maintains the windows port) we've released a new version of classic Rogue, the original "rogue" in roguelike. It has been updated using Ultimate Roguelike Tileset style graphics (also includes ascii) and sound effects. Hope you enjoy it!'"

Apparently the 4.2BSD version was distributed as a binary. 4.4BSD-Lite2, however, has it as BSD-licensed source code. So anyone with a copy of the BSD4.4 code has a copy of the rogue source code. Also, it was included with FreeBSD in the "games/freebsd-games" port until around 2009 when the whole "freebsd-games" port was removed, according to the changelog on FreshPorts. I'd hardly call FreeBSD "abandonware". :-) But I'd be interested in seeing any legal disputes about the distribution of the BSD-licensed versions of Rogue.