News - September 1999

Daily news from the world of roguelike games: Roguelike News

28th September 1999

• *Mac ports*
  "Gob" compiled PernAngband 4.0.0b for the PPC Mac, and Prfnoff ported GSNband 2.01, PernAngband 4.0.0b, SBFband 0.2.1, and ZAngband a2.3.0 (his own modified version of ZAngband 2.3.0) to both 68k and PPC Macs.

• ZAngband Development mailing list
  The ZAngband DevTeam has started a mailing list devoted to ZAngband development. If you are interested in helping us to create an even better game, then feel free to join the list at http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/zangband/ or by sending an empty e-mail to zangband-subscribe@onelist.com.
• Angband savefile competition
  Another round of Cookie's Angband Competition just started. This round's character is Paolo, the Spectre Chaos-Mage in CthAngband 3.1.2(b). The goal is to kill the deepest unique and send your savefile back till 9pm GMT on the 4th October. Make sure to read the rules and the allowed options!

• ZAngband DevTeam
  I'm proud to announce that ZAngband is now maintained by a DevTeam consisting of Topi Ylinen, Eric Bock, Remco Gerlich, Mark Howson, Chris Kern, and Robert Rühlmann (that's me!). The team is small since it's only the core team that makes the decisions about changes and new features. More info about the DevTeam will follow in the next few days. To make bugfixing and development easier we will be using the Linux version numbering scheme with even minor version numbers like 2.2.6 for stable versions and odd numbers like 2.3.0 for development versions. That leads us to the next point ...
• ZAngband 2.3.0
  We start our work with the release of a development version of ZAngband. The beta version is available from the new ZAngband Development section. Take a look at the list of changes and remember to report any bugs you may find!
• SBFband 0.2.1
  A new version of Steve Fisher's SBFband is now available.

• (J)Angband/64 beta 4 release 9
  The new version of Jurriaan Kalkman's (J)Angband/64 is now available. It fixes a couple of bugs, changes the monster AI a bit, and adds a special "crash-dump" function to make the investigation of crashes easier.

• GSNband 2.01
  Gwidon S. Naskrent released a new version of his variant GSNband with various bugfixes and new features. Dennis van Es compiled it for Windows and Bablos did the same for the Amiga.

• New ZAngband development version
  After a short break a new development version is available on the ZAngband Developer Page. It fixes various bugs and includes the new features from Prfnoff's ZAngband a2.2.6 "mini-variant".
• ZAngband "mini-variant"
  And that brings me to the next topic. Prfnoff created a modified version of ZAngband 2.2.6 with nice new features like Eric Bock's player centering scroll patch, and several new startup-options like "always generate arena levels", or "don't save the game when dying".
  He also compiled 68k and PPC Mac versions.

• Angband 2.8.5 beta
  After 1.5 years Ben Harrison finally released a new Angband version. Angband 2.8.5 is still in beta test, so only the source code is available at the moment. So if you can't compile it for yourself, then you'll have to wait for the new features.
• Amiga ports
  Bablos ported GSNband 2.0 and ZAngband 2.2.6c to the Amiga.
• Mac ports
  And Prfnoff ported the same two versions for the PPC and 68k Macs.

• PernAngband bugfix
  DarkGod released PernAngband 4.0.0b to kill some ugly bugs in the 4.0.0 version.
• Acorn ports
  Musus Umbra ported ZAngband 2.2.6c and CthAngband 3.1.2b to the Acorn RISC OS.
• GSNband for Windows
  Dennis van Es compiled the Windows 95/98/NT version of GSNband 2.0.

• Another FTP-site mirror
  Yesterday the players in Australia and New Zealand got a mirror, today it's a mirror for everyone else. The ftp.cis.ksu.edu mirror was offline for some time, but it's back again as ftp.greyhelm.com!

© 1999 by Robert Rühlmann, rr9@thangorodrim.net