[RISC OS] Angband state of play

On Dec 5, 10:34 am, Andy Gullans <andrew.gull... RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 7:03 pm, Harriet Bazley <harr... RemoveThis @bazley.freeuk.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm finishing an article on Angband for Qercus magazine, and
> > ideally need to know what the current state of play is for:
>
> Well, offhand I'd say Timo's departure has devastated the state of
> play in general. I was so depressed when I read his last post, that I
> immediately stopped playing at that point. Mr. Pietilä's leaving is
> widely percieved as a crushing blow to the spirit of Vanilla Angband,
> invoking a profound state of mourning in the larger Roguelike
> community. He will be missed. Timo Pietilä is survived by his
> squelch patch.

Alarming possibility - maybe he got the settings wrong and
accidentally squelched himself?

A.
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On Dec 5, 10:34 am, Andy Gullans <andrew.gull....TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 7:03 pm, Harriet Bazley <harr....TakeThisOut@bazley.freeuk.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm finishing an article on Angband for Qercus magazine, and
> > ideally need to know what the current state of play is for:
>
> Well, offhand I'd say Timo's departure has devastated the state of
> play in general. I was so depressed when I read his last post, that I
> immediately stopped playing at that point. Mr. Pietilä's leaving is
> widely percieved as a crushing blow to the spirit of Vanilla Angband,
> invoking a profound state of mourning in the larger Roguelike
> community. He will be missed. Timo Pietilä is survived by his
> squelch patch.

>Alarming possibility - maybe he got the settings wrong and
>accidentally squelched himself?

LOL. Personally I suspect he's taken a temporary sabbatical to bring forth
Timoband, the long-awaited variant with no spellbooks, no artifacts, no ego
items and only ironman mode(*). Locals in Timo's part of the world can
probably hear the "mwa-ha-ha-ha"s booming throughout the surrounding area as
he puts the finishing touches to it.

(*) It will, however, tell you instantly exactly how much damage your
wielded weapon will do against any monster. If your launcher can kill Smaug
with a single shot, you win the game.

CC
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Harriet Bazley wrote:
> I'm finishing an article on Angband for Qercus magazine, and
> ideally need to know what the current state of play is for:
>
> central Angband website URL
> FTP download address
> RISC OS ports
> RISC OS maintainer
> ....

I haven't done any work on Angband for a long while, but as best as I know:

The main Angband maintainer is currently Andrew Sidwell, who also
maintains the RISC OS port. http://www.rephial.org is the main (Vanilla)
development site.

The main FTP site used to be clockwork.dementia.org, and then
ftp.thangorodrim.net, but both now appear to be down. The older stuff
seems to be available on ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/games/Angband, but the
newer stuff is a bit scattered. http://angband.oook.cz seems to have
weblinks to the other "live" variants.

As far as I know, there have been two major ports of the game to RISC
OS. The first was by Kevin Bracey, around the 2.7.9 series, the second
(much improved) was by Musus Umbra in 1998 or so. I provided some very
minor help with the latter port and used it as a base to compile a
number of Angband variants in the few years thereafter. Andrew took over
the RISC OS frontend code at some point - he's listed as its current
maintainer if you download the 3.0.9 source and look at src/main-ros.c

I think that many of my RISC OS ports of variants have fallen off the
net - there's not much demand for them these days and they don't seem to
be on sunet. I've got a fairly complete set from the first few years and
would be very happy to send you any if you need them.

HTH,
Tom
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On 8 Dec, 17:34, Tom Harris <use....RemoveThis@tomharris.me.uk> wrote:

> As far as I know, there have been two major ports of the game to RISC
> OS. The first was by Kevin Bracey, around the 2.7.9 series, the second
> (much improved) was by Musus Umbra in 1998 or so. I provided some very
> minor help with the latter port and used it as a base to compile a
> number of Angband variants in the few years thereafter. Andrew took over
> the RISC OS frontend code at some point - he's listed as its current
> maintainer if you download the 3.0.9 source and look at src/main-ros.c

There was an (earlier?) port of 2.4.frog-knows.

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Matthew
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On 9 Dec 2007 as I do recall,
Matthew Wightman wrote:

> On 8 Dec, 17:34, Tom Harris <use... DeleteThis @tomharris.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > As far as I know, there have been two major ports of the game to RISC
> > OS. The first was by Kevin Bracey, around the 2.7.9 series, the second
> > (much improved) was by Musus Umbra in 1998 or so. I provided some very
> > minor help with the latter port and used it as a base to compile a
> > number of Angband variants in the few years thereafter. Andrew took over
> > the RISC OS frontend code at some point - he's listed as its current
> > maintainer if you download the 3.0.9 source and look at src/main-ros.c
>
> There was an (earlier?) port of 2.4.frog-knows.
>
Yes, that's the one on the sunet.se website Tom Harris mentions
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/games/Angband/Acorn/angband-2.4-frog-knows-acorn.zip

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