Archived news from 09/00.
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| Archives - September 2000 |
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| Friday 29th September 2000 |
- More EyAngband. Keeping up his pace of near-weekly updates, Eytan Zweig has a new version (0.1.3) of his variant, EyAngband. As per usual, you can find a complete list of changes in this version here. Mainly, the update consists of bug fixes and balance tweaks but there is also a new "monster knowledge" screen and the beginnings of a random quest feature. Source and Win9x binary are available from the EyAngband homepage.
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| Wednesday 27th September 2000 |
- Another Hand-off. In the fashion of the Olympic torch being passed from athelete to athelete on it's journey, so too is it with DrAngband (had to wedge an Olympic reference in here somewhere *grin*). Tom Morton is doing the passing with Andrew White doing the receiving. Good luck to Andrew in continuing the journey of the torch, um, sorry... variant.
- New DrAngband. To mark the occasion (of taking over as maintainer on DrAngband! Weren't you listening??), Andrew White has released a new version (v2.9.6) which adds some of Andrew's latest patches and fixes a number of bugs.
- Crypt Additions. Odin Jensen has added several new bits to his website for Crypt of Anubis. Visitors will find themselves able to download the game manual & intro movie and also take a peek at the final screenshot for the game menu. Go on then, go have a look.
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| Wednesday 20th September 2000 |
- RISC Ports. Out in porting land, Musus Umbra has got a pair of RISC OS compilations for you - Angband (v2.9.1) and ZAngband (v2.4.0). You can either pick them up from his homepage here or grab them directly from the links below...
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| Tuesday 19th September 2000 |
- New Roguelike. Odin Jensen, developer of 'Curse of the Ancients' has a new roguelike project on the go. Called Crypt of Anubis, it features 3D graphics and uses an uncovered lost tomb in Egypt as it's setting. Check out the project homepage for more details and initial screenshots.
- OAngband Ownership. Citing a new job, Leon Marrick has stepped down as maintainer of OAngband, handing the reins to Bahman Rabii. Bye bye and much thanks to Leon and hello to Bahman, we wish you well in continuing the project.
- New EyAngband. Eytan Zweig has a new version (0.1.2) of his variant, EyAngband available. You can find a full list of changes in this version here. Source and Win9x compilation available from the project homepage.
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| Monday 18th September 2000 |
- ZAngbandTk Release. The beta version of Tim Baker's ZAngbandTk (v2.4.0r1) was apparently lovely and fine and so there is now an official release available. The word on the street is that "...this version fixes the character dump and uses MSVCRT.DLL instead of the old CRT.DLL". You can find the files you need for this Tk'ed incarnation on the project's download page.
- New SLASH'EM. There is a new version of SLASH'EM (v0.0.6E4F0) from Warren Cheung out. This one adds to the stability and the windows version now also has the GTK windowsystem built-ins available... which is nice.
- Another SR Goof. Uh-oh. Robin Gawlik isn't having a very good time of it. He's gone and done it again - leaving another file (ammo.dat) from the zip archive of Star Rogue (v0.25a). So, fingers crossed, the archive should be complete now. If you don't feel like getting the whole archive again for a third time, the individual file is available seperately from the project homepage.
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| Wednesday 13th September 2000 |
- Star Rogue Slip-up. There was a little problem-ette with Robin Gawlik's last release of Star Rogue (v0.25a). Or at least, in the zip archive - it was missing a file called 'arm.dat'. There is a new complete archive up on the project homepage so if you're having trouble, check your files before deciding to have a shout at Robin.
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| Tuesday 12th September 2000 |
- Cat Pounces. Well, moves actually. Having been evicted from his old website (server closed), 'Neko' has transfered his site to SourceForge. Sooo, if you've got a link to CatH-Angband (Cat-and-the-Hack Angband), you might want to change it to the link I've just given you in this very sentence roughly about 20-or-so words ago. Erm..yes.
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| Monday 11th September 2000 |
- New Star Rogue. Robin Gawlik has a new alpha version of Star Rogue (v0.25a) for you. The changes list is a big 'un again and can be found on the project homepage.
- EyAngband Update. Eytan Zweig has released a new version of his variant, EyAngband (0.1.1) which adds/removes items, fixes bugs and includes recent patches.
- New Unofficial Ver. Prfnoff has released an update of his 'unofficial' Angband variant - (a2.9.1). It's just a beta at the mo so don't expect binaries until some of the more nasty bugs have been stamped and smooshed and battered and thumped. Here is the source...
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| Wednesday 6th September 2000 |
- Light Patch. Andrew White has had a little fiddle with the Angband code and produced a patch to allow monsters to carry light sources - critters who should ofcourse (human monsters like mages, paladins, priests, etc.) and critters that give off light naturally (light
hounds, fire vortex, etc.). You can find the patch at the link below...
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| Friday 1st September 2000 |
- More Lost. Ondrej Zicha has been beavering away the last couple of months and has a new version (0.0.6) of his roguelike The 4th Age: The Lost Rings. It makes a change to have a day without *band news :). Without further ado, here are the changes for this release...
- Items placed outside visible area are not drawn until area is newly visited.
- Items removed from map remain on screen.
- Switch for drawing specials (leaving sites, hitpoints, icons).
- Switch for auto-confirmation of options when using items.
- New key shortcuts added: Alt-P for drawing specials, Alt-F for quick following, Alt-B for Beholder View (normal view/night vision).
- Drawing hitpoints of each monster. (with spec. switch)
- Drawing of "icons" that indicate whether monster is bleeding or poisoned. (with spec. switch)
- Selecting Easy makes game REALLY easy now.
- Heroes are more powerful now.
- Scroll bars added.
- Generating of random dungeons with more than one level in one object definition.
- Faster Line of Sight code.
- Now you can make shopkeeper really angry when you are stealing his items.
- Saving and loading of configuration.
- Lot of bugs fixed.
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