Archived news from 04/00.
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- 29 - 30 April 2000.
- 22 - 28 April 2000.
- 15 - 21 April 2000.
- 08 - 14 April 2000.
- 01 - 07 April 2000.
- Allegro Addition. ...speaking of tarting games up with flash front-ends *grin*, 'Wingnut' has created a version of DOS Nethack that uses the Allegro library to enhance the display. What this means is you can have a much higher resolution screen displaying upto 32bit colour 32x32 sized tiles. Naturally, it's called AllegroHack. Pop along to the website, take a peek at the screenshots and download it.
- Added the note-taking patch by ... Chris Kern (IIRC).
- Made low-level mages a less melee-happy.
- Adjusted the level restrictions for mages. They need to be clevel 30 at dlevel25>.
- Fixed a bug with multiple rods charging. (I hope, I never noticed it myself, so...)
- Finally fixed the starvation problem. A failure rate of 10% or less is needed before a character relies on the satisfy hunger spell/prayer.
- Rewrote code.
- Classes added.
- Gnome race added.
- New line of sight.
- Many items can lie on each tile.
- Filters in inventory, pick and drop item screens.
- Eating - food and corpses.
- Second dungeon.
- Buying.
- Bugs fixed.
- Mac Borgband. 'Gob' has put together PPC and 68K versions of Borgband (post 2.9.0 ver) for the Mac. Included is a helper application to allow the auto-restart functions to work. Below are the links you want...
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/Borgband-290-PPC.sit.bin = PPC Borgband.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/Borgband-290-68K.sit.bin = 68K Borgband.
Hi There... Seems like I made a little mistake with Pern406 when I compiled it. I had compiled it so that it depended upon the AmiTCP TCP/IP stack in order to run. I've finally got rid of it and a new archive is now available; ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/pernangband-406-ami.lha (1749K) The archive contails an executable for 030/FPU, and a patch for a basic 68000 version. To create the 68000 version, type the following command at a shell prompt after changing to the PernAngband directory; spatch -oPernAngband -pPern000.pch PernAngband030 You'll also need to download the latest Amiga specific distribution of Python. It can be found on Aminet. If you've already downloaded the file, and have run into problems (I've only heard of one thus far. Only one Amiga Pern player out there?!!), then an archive is available containing patches to take you from the old 030 executable to the new 030 and 000 executables; http://wkweb5.cableinet.co.uk/bablos/angband/Pern406pch.lzx (640K) Follow the same steps for patches as detailed above.- Long Weekend. You probably already guessed from the lack of updates that I took a couple of days holiday last week (Wednesday onwards, to be precise) to extend what was already a long weekend. Should have probably mentioned it before I took it, but there you go. Luckily, there wasn't a major outbreak of news seconds after I went home so no damage done eh? :)
- Fixed a bug where the borg tried to zap a charging Rod of Healing.
- DSM could only be activated once, they were charging forever. Fixed that.
- Changed the title of the window to reflect the borgband version.
- Converted from 2.8.3 to 2.9.0
- The borg will now admit it, if he has no swaps.
- Changed the restarting code (tnx Bill Seymour) for Windows.
- Added some code to get it to work in linux (tnx Coen van Antwerpen), but it still won't compile.
- Slowed mages down (they won't dive as fast as they used to)
- Added a bunch of artifact activations.
- I tried to improve the survival changes of mages, but they still suck.
- Lots of 'invisible' changes to tighten up the code.
- Several UI tweaks, and spelling corrections.
- Added message history.
- Added 'target nearest monster' feature in targeting mode.
- Altered the keymaps, and removed the need to use NUM LOCK.
- Added stealth, and monsters tracking by sound.
- Improved traps, and added a fire trap.
- Traps can now be disarmed.
- Fighters now have worse starting equipment.
- Added more mage spells, and gave starting mages a random 'extra' spellbook to start with.
- Cheats and Wizard Mode users no longer appear on the high score table.
- Equipped items and gold now appear in your inventory.
- Added some more monsters, mainly at lower depths.
- Added --local-files command line option.
- Added the NW logo (by Howard Kistler).
- New sounds added (punch, sick, death, grenade and sleep) with machine gun and pistol sound updated.
- Only asks you if you really want to hit a each non agressive NPC once so after you have hit it the first time you will not get asked again.
- Speed of monsters all assumed to be normal your speed will drop if you go below normal, not working yet for above normal (not happy with this code yet)
- Added button and key (.) to rest one turn.
- You can now sleep for six hours at a time in hotel room as long as you are not too hungry or ill.
- Save files now compressed from 475kb to less than 75kb.
- Altered Saving and Loading game can now choose from three slots.
- Added more items.
- Added Skyren NPC'S who will use Psionics
- Removed some icons from screen wear etc just click on inventory.
- In inventory all buttons are available all the time.
- Added two new wearing slots for equipment torches etc.
- Messages now include name of weapon just used.
- Basic fruit machine in casino now works.
- Basic Arena Code started can now battle opponents.
- Fixed: Error occured when NPC walked across remains of another NPC.
- Fixed: If the messages area was clicked in keyboard control was lost.
- Fixed: Some weapons had range set to zero meaning they would not fire.
- Fixed: Was still adding unique NPC's.
- Fixed: Incorrect Saving of base level.
- http://www.harris.ukgateway.net/angband/psiband-107b-acn.zip = RISC OS Psiband.
- http://www.harris.ukgateway.net/angband/goingband-283v4-acn.zip = RISC OS Goingband.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/drang-295-68kmac.sea.bin = 68K Drangband.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/PernAngband-406-PPC.sit.bin = PPC PernAngband.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/PernAngband-406-68K.sit.bin = 68K PernAngband.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/kamband-18c-ami.lha = Amiga Kamband.
- UNIX SLASH'EM. Ali Harlow has put together a UNIX distribution of SLASH'EM, (v0.0.6E1). According to Ali, this version has been tested somewhat and barring any bugs there were in NetHack 3.3.0, it's quite stable. You can find it on his webpage here.
- Amiga Angband. Following the recent update of Angband (v2.9.0), Bablos has ported an Amiga version. You can hopefully find the file here...
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/angband-290-ami.lha = Amiga Angband.
- Goodbye Ben. Chances are you've already heard but here it is anyway - after several years as maintainer of Angband, Ben Harrison is stepping down. Citing demands on time, Ben made his announcement on rec.games.roguelike.angband, which you can find in it's complete form here in the Articles section.
- Hello Robert. As Ben steps down, Robert Rühlmann steps up to take over as maintainer. Having fiddled with variants and running the comprehensive Thangorodrim website, Robert will now look after Angband. He's already released a new version (2.9.0), bringing together changes made in the 2.8.5 beta with some of his own additions. Details of which can be found in his own posting to the Angband newsgroup which I've stored here. The files for new version can be found...
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Source/angband-290-src.tar.gz = Source.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Windows/angband-290-win.zip = Windows Executable.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/DOS-386/angband-290-dos.zip = DOS Executable.
- ftp://export.andrew.cmu.edu/angband/Incoming/pernangband-406-ami.lha = Amiga PernAngband.