A few months ago, maybe half a year ago, I made another attempt at finding part2 of Castle of the Winds, or at least information on it, online (I've been playing it since I was 6-8, almost never getting tired of it - I simply started collecting the best and most interesting items I found and naming them accordingly).
That time, however, I had finally found something - it was on Wikipedia, there were mentions of Rogue, which I was also familiar with (BTW, through my grandmother :P), CotW, and several games it mentioned were called Roguelikes.
After DLing and easily beating CotW pt2 (I had the experience of years, plus it's an easy game ^^ ), I DLd them, and got hooked on NetHack in minutes (I've never beat the game, as I'm too lazy to drag my best chars into possible death :P ). The main attraction was that I had finally found games in the pure spirit of open-source work and free, from-players-for-players gaming, but also that these were finally games with loads of context and infinite replayability!
I discovered ADoM, didn't really like the build, found Slash'EM and liked it, found Linley's Dungeon Crawl, fell in love and beat the game (or got near and decided to keep the chars for infinite Pandemonium scumming potential :P It never really gets easy). BTW, my third LDC game killed my char with a dragon on dlvl2 - WTF, mate?
Having found such incredible games but beeing greedy and wanting more(! :P), a few weeks ago I decided to keep looking. I've never really understood Fooband and ToME, and never really tried to either (for some reason), but ToME modules brought me Bone to be Wild: Summoning Gone Wrong (recommended, but be ware, it's somewhat unbalanced and no-one's beat it yet, AFAIK). I kept looking, and through Rogubasin where I found BtbW I found Kornel's projects, including DoomRL, which is, IMHO, to date the best short roguelike I've encountered, by far, and the only roguelike with a real, penetrating atmosphere to it (horror-gore, as it should be :P ).