News - January 2000

Daily news from the world of roguelike games: Roguelike News

31st January 2000

• ZAngband 2.3.5
  And again a new development version of ZAngband is available. The source code, Windows, and DOS versions are waiting with many new features, changes, and bugfixes.
• (J)Angband/64 for Amiga
  Bablos released the Amiga version of Jurriaan Kalkman's (J)Angband/64 beta 5 release 1.

• (J)Angband/64
  There is a new version of Jurriaan Kalkman's (J)Angband/64 available. It contains some changes to the pack-animal AI and several bugfixes.
• PsiAngband for Windows
  I have compiled the Windows version of PsiAngband 1.0.7b.

• Angband Borg with graphics patch update
  I have adapted my small patch that allows the Borg to use graphics so that it works with the APW-Borg.

• OAngband 0.4.0d for DOS
  Tom Morton compiled the DOS version of the new OAngband 0.4.0d.

• Angband Borg with graphics patch
  I have written a small patch that allows the Borg from Angband 2.8.3h to use graphics.

• ZAngband 2.3.4c
  The crash bug when lighting/darken the dungeon is finally fixed. Credit for fixing it goes to Wim Benthem who found it some minutes before me. I've already uploaded the new development version 2.3.4c that also fixes some other bugs.
• ZAngband 2.3.4c for Amiga
  And Bablos already compiled the new development version for the Amiga.

• DrAngband beta
  Tom Morton released the source code of the DrAngband 2.9.4 beta version.
• 68k Mac ports
  Gob compiled PernAngband 4.0.5 and ZAngband 2.2.8 for Macs with 68k processor.
• ZAngband 2.3.4b beta for Windows crash
  The crash bug in the Windows port of the new development version wasn't completely fixed with the updated version. The game still crashs when lighting/darkening the dungeon when played on Windows 95/98 systems. Strangely Windows NT seems to be not affected (making it tricky for me to reproduce the crash). I'm still working on a fixed version and have released a testing version to the ZAngband mailing-list. If it works this time then I'll release version 2.3.4c tomorrow.
• Amiga ports
  Bablos ported ZAngband 2.3.4 and DrAngband 2.9.4 beta to the Amiga.

• ZAngband 2.3.4 for Windows
  The first uploaded Windows archive of the new ZAngband development version suffered from an ugly bug in the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler that caused it to crash often when lighting/darkening the dungeon. I've uploaded a new version that works around this bug (I hope).
• Amiga OAngband port
  Bablos compiled the Amiga version of the new OAngband 0.4.0d.

• ZAngband 2.3.4 development version
  The ZAngband DevTeam released a new development version of ZAngband. The new version has a huge list of changes and is available as source code, Windows 95/98/NT, and DOS version.
• OAngband 0.4.0d
  Tim Baker released a new version of OAngband. The source code and the Windows 95/98/NT version are available for download.

• PsiAngband for Mac
  Darin Takemoto compiled the Mac (68k) version of PsiAngband 1.0.7b.

• New savefile competition
  After a long break the Angband Savefile Competition is back. So get Living Daylights, the Angband 2.8.3 Dunadan Ranger and try to get as much experience as possible. You have time till 7pm GMT, Thursday the 20th of January. Don't forget to read and follow the rules.

• MAngband
  Version 0.6.0 of the multiplayer Angband variant MAngband is now available. New features include a huge wilderness, new rogue skills, heal other prayers, scrolls of life which ressurect player ghosts in the dungeon, and a revised housing system.

• PsiAngband for Amiga
  Bablos compiled the Amiga version of of the new PsiAngband 1.0.7b.
• Mac ports
  Gob ported ZAngband 2.2.8 and PernAngband 4.0.5 for the Macs.

• PsiAngband update
  Jonathan Ellis and Aram Harrow have released a new version of PsiAngband. Apart from bugfixes the new release also improves playability for non-Psionicist classes. They also started a competition: The first non-psionicist winner will have his character immortalised in the next version of the game.
• OAngband 0.4.0c for Mac
  A Mac version of the new (unofficial) OAngband 0.4.0c has been compiled by Darin Takemoto.

• ZAngbandTk review
  Blinking Dot (home of Sia's RPG database - one of the most complete sources for infos on CRPGs) has done a 4 page review of ZAngbandTK. The review includes a short introduction to the roguelike genre, screenshots, and gives the game 5 out of 5 blinkingdots!

• Unofficial OAngband 0.4.0c version
  Tim Baker released a new version of OAngband to fix the known bugs. The new version is unofficial since the original author Leon Marrick seems to have vanished.
• RML-Borg for Windows
  Dennis van Es compiled a Windows version of Angband 2.8.3h with Ross Morgan-Linial's improved Borg.

• Zceband 2.1.2
  Eric Bock released a new version of his variant Zceband. Changes include a new player-race and more Doom related stuff as well as various bugfixes.
• (J)Angband/64
  And there also is a new version of Jurriaan Kalkman's (J)Angband/64 available with many changes, especially to the monster AI.

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