1214: Angband \\ ASCII w/ sound, & block walls! Original Angband, Frog-knows! Hidden death key!!
0Playing the free, open source, PC/Mac/Linux roguelike dungeon exploration game Angband (https://rephial.org) in Windows, using the GCU (ASCII) front end, with SDL2 sound, compiled in Cygwin from the latest source code.
The first widely distributed version of Angband, version 2.4.Frog-knows, and specifically the 1.1 (bugfix) version of the PC (DOS) port of that, which I was running here through DOSBox (free from https://www.dosbox.com) , can be downloaded from the official Angband site's "Releases" section at https://rephial.org/release/2.4.fk -- except that the PC version 1.1 link is currently typoed to 1.2 there, so you have to alter it manually to https://github.com/angband/angband/releases/download/v2.4.fk/pcangband-1.1.zip
The HunterZ Windows port of DOS Umoria 5.6 is https://github.com/HunterZ/umoria
The John Harris (rodneylives) article in which he talks about Frog-knows and other past Angband versions is https://setsideb.com/play-angband-version-history/
(And the podcast in which an episode with him was often one of the best is http://www.roguelikeradio.com/ .)
- FORGOT Angband programmer backwardsEric told me (and further FORGOT this discussion took place on the Angband github page for software issue 5542, not the forum) that overriding the ^c suicide key with a blank keymap won't work in the GCU front end
- FORGOT the capitalization fix for CTRL characters (ie the game now showing CTRL plus the "d" key as "^d," not "^D") was a recent fix and so isn't in the downloaded 4.2.4 Windows front end version still available as the latest on rephial.org, with which I was testing at one point here and confusing myself mightily 'p'
My Angband playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzPDGSovCSUGiEGwNrTKPb-C
0:00 - messing with tiles (MSYS2 SDL2)
9:39 - GCU block walls (Cygwin)
13:24 - checkerboard walls (2.4.Frog-knows DOS 1.1)
17:09 - my Umoria tweaks (Cygwin)
28:40 - HunterZ Umoria 5.6 DOS to Windows port
42:02 - sound in GCU Angband (Cygwin)
50:08 - monochrome option in DOS Frog-knows
55:25 - GCU ^c death key keymap confusion & save-scumming 'p'
1:23:24 - L37 - giant fire ants
1:42:25 - still confused about GCU ^c and keymaps ; P
After being hopelessly confused about the ^c thing during the recording, I looked up Angband's code on the ^c suicide key, and it is NOT a function of my Cygwin terminal that's killing the character, it's the game, sort of simulating an old-style ^c terminal break function or something. That seems dangerous and pointless to me, at least in Windows where you've got Task Manager to kill processes if you really need to do that, so I've disarmed this bizarre suicide function in my local Angband version by commenting out one line of code.
disarm redundant (in Windows) ^c suicide key:
ui-signals.c
121 comment line
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For a Cygwin-compiled GCU (ASCII) front end with sound:
Use Cygwin Setup to get the following additional packages:
libSDL2-devel
libSDL2_mixer-devel
libSDL2_ttf-devel
cd angband
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-no-install --enable-sdl2
make
cd ..
If you don't also have the libSDL2_image-devel package installed, you can then simply the game run with
./angband/src/angband
If you do have libSDL2_image-devel installed, Angband's SDL2 front end will be enabled as the default, so you'll need to specify the GCU front end with the -mgcu parameter when running the game, ie
./angband/src/angband -mgcu
(-mgcu comes before "--" parameters, so for instance for my usual subwindows I would do
./angband/src/angband -mgcu -- -right 46x24,* -top *x12
)
In the game, you'll need "Options Menu - a) User interface options - b) Use sound" set to "yes"; you can do that by entering "=aby" from the dungeon screen--and you may also want to hit "s" to save after that.
11/21/22
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