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Variants

[The Dark Tower (by John Howe)] Some Angband programmers aren't satisfied with the standard version and make changes to the source code. This variants are a nice change if you need a break after your 34th hobbit-rogue dies in a horrible (and stupid) way. Thanks to all authors (not for the death - for the variants of course)!

There is also a Variants FAQ, and you can find most variants at the ftp.sunet.se FTP site, and the australian mirror ftp.planetmirror.com.

Current variants

Name Version Released
AlexAngband 0.9 6th April 2003
Anime Angband - Animeband 0.5.9 [New]23rd September 2005
Cat and the hack Angband - CathAngband 3.0.3 12th September 2003
Dragon Angband - DrAngband 2.9.9c 23rd October 2003
EyAngband - Eytan Zweig's Angband 0.5.2 27th January 2003
Gileba Angband - GilAngband 0.1.0 8th September 2004
Gumband 2.2.3 18th January 2004
Hell Angband - HellBand 1.0.3 24th November 2004
Hengband 1.6.0 13th January 2004
LAngband 0.1.6 8th May 2003
Multiplayer Angband - MAngband 0.7.0 6th January 2001
Multiclass Angband - Multiband 1.1.4 5th October 2004
New Angband - NewAngband 1.7.1 [New]24th September 2005
Non-Tolkienian Angband - NTAngband 0.7 28th November 2002
NPPAngband 0.4.1 27th March 2005
Opinion Angband - OAngband 0.7.0 2nd May 2005
Possessor Angband - PosBand 0.3.0-alpha2 12th October 2004
Randomband 0.4.1 2nd April 2005
Skill Angband - SAngband 0.9.9 revision 14 6th March 2003
sCthAngband 1.0.18 31st May 2004
Steamband 0.4.0 15th February 2005
ToME - Troubles of Middle Earth 2.3.3 [New]15th December 2005
Multiplayer ToME - TomeNET 4.2.2 15th March 2004
Unnamed Angband - UnAngband 0.5.5 7th January 2004
Xband 0.5.0 9th July 2004
Zelazny Angband - ZAngband 2.7.4c 1st August 2004

Older variants

There are also a lot of old variants that haven't been updated for some time. Some have been abandoned by their maintainers, poor orphans looking for a developer to take care of them. Others are simply declared "finished", having reached the goal of the diverging development.

Many of them (if not all) contain interesting ideas, nice features, and hours and hours of gameplay. So if you don't mind playing something that isn't "brand new" then you'll have a lot of fun in these variants.

Name Version Released
BAngband 2.4.Frog-knows ???
Cthulhu Angband - CthAngband 4.1.0 22nd October 2000
Cyberpunk Angband - CyAngband 0.3.2 7th January 2002
Discworld Angband - Discband 5 6th May 2001
DvEband - Dennis van Es' Angband 1.0.1 15th October 1999
Easy Angband - Easyband 2.3 7th May 2001
Eric Bock's ZAngband variant - Zceband 2.1.3 ???
FAngband 1.0 ???
Goingband 2.8.3 v4 29th August 1998
GSN2band 1.0 11th November 2000
GW-Angband 2.8.3v3 alpha 19th June 1999
IronMan Angband - IngBand 0.2.0 9th May 1999
Jurriaan's Angband - (J)Angband/64 beta 7 release 2 8th April 2001
KAmband 2.1 30th April 2001
KAngband 2.9.3 11th October 2001
Michael Barnes' Angband - MJband 0.0.6 22nd June 2000
Programmable Angband - PAngband 0.1.1 19th January 1999
Prfnoff's ZAngband variant - ZAngbaA 2.3.5 9th June 2000
Prfnoff's Angband variant a2.9.1 1st October 2000
Psionic Angband - PsiAngband 1.3.0 10th June 2001
Psionic ZAngband - PziAngband 1.1.0 11th August 1998
Quest Angband - QAngband 2.8.2b 18th November 1997
Realistic Angband - RAngband 1.05a 5th July 1999
SBFband 0.2.2 11th November 1999
Silly Angband - Sillyband 0.1.0 22nd October 1999
Team Angband - TAngband 0.6.0 2nd July 2000
Utumno 1.0a5 30th December 1997

If you have written a new variant, compiled one or know of a version not in my list, please send me an e-mail.

© 1997/98 by Robert Rühlmann, rr9@thangorodrim.net [News] [To the Main Page]