1243: DOS Angband 3.0.6, the long-lost(?) DOS Angband 2.8.3, and DOS Zangband!
0Playing old DOS versions and variants of the free, open source, PC/Mac/Linux roguelike dungeon exploration game Angband in Windows, through DOSBox (https://dosbox.com). Hengband (https://hengband.github.io) BGM via WinAmp.
My Angband playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZO3OPzPjIzPDGSovCSUGiEGwNrTKPb-C
0:00 - Hengband music key
1:48 - DOSBox cycles setting
4:51 - DOS Angband 3.0.6
18:20 - system-specific prfs from 2.8.3
32:42 - DOS Angband 2.8.3
47:55 - DOS Zangband
1:22:28 - wrap!
Key thing here is setting "cycles" in the DOSBox config file to "10000"--on my ~3-year-old mid-range gaming laptop, at least, that keeps CPU usage for these old DOSbands in the sub-1% range, whereas on the default "auto" cycles setting, it gets up into the teens, and makes my laptop's fan run nearly incessantly.
At 10000 cycles, Angband 3.0.6 runs at pretty much full speed--oh, except that you can actually see yourself running, instead of just teleporting, which is nice (3.0.6 doesn't have the old "see yourself running" option or whatever it was that more or less did that in some older versions).
DOS Zangband IS a little slow at 10000 cycles, though. ; )
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Angband 3.0.6 DOS version is available from the official Angband site: https://rephial.org/release/3.0.6
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Angband 2.8.3 DOS version is NOT on the official site--but an unzipped version of what appears to be it can be found on then-maintainer Ben Harrison's web site, under http://www.phial.com/angdirs/Old-Tree/angband-283-dos/ ; I downloaded all the files, and they ran!
- does not have bump-to-open on doors
- has an auto-haggle option toggle, but haggling isn't actually supported either way
- has a user.prf with parameters supporting separate, system-specific prf files, including separate DOS (Robert Ruehlmann's graphical mode) and IBM (the old "-mibm" command-line switch DOS ASCII mode) prfs; that's EXACTLY what I wanted for 3.0.6 DOS, where my color and @-character "IBM" edits don't work well in the DOS mode...but the 2.8.3 prf parameters only partially work in 3.0.6: 3.0.6 can use them to load an IBM-specific prf in IBM mode...but it loads the IBM prf in DOS mode, too! Drat.
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That Gervais tileset for Angband 3.0.6 was I think specifically for the Windows version (which is available from the official Angband site). It looks much like the DOS graphical version except w/ more tilesets, including a listing for Gervais.
A readme.txt says the Gervais tileset is a separate download, from Ruehlmann's thangorodrim.net--now down. As noted in an old thread http://angband.oook.cz/forum/archive/index.php/t-254.html by current Angband maintainer Nick, it's available from http://angband.oook.cz/download/extra/graf-32x32-306.zip.
Looks like the Gervais tileset wasn't included in the initial official Angband distributions that supported it because of a license issue, mentioned in the notes for 3.0.9a, which resolved it: https://rephial.org/release/3.0.9a
In Angband 3.0.6 for Windows, the Gervais tiles are hard to view in a legible way while also keeping the game font a reasonable size but the thread has some tips. They're different than current Gervais--the warrior character is even in a different pose!
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Zangband, including DOS Zangband 2.7.5 preview 1 I played here, is available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/zangband/
Zangband DOS 2.7.5 has lots of cool options--just about all the ones I would want, including bumping doors open, monochrome toggle, working screen refresh, and color and visual editors, except there's no haggling (buying has none of DOS Angband 2.8.3 and 3.0.6's vestiges of haggling)--but also weird stuff, like missing corners or bopping back and forth in wide halls while running, not telling you about later instances (I think?) of stuff you step on that you'd destroyed earlier (partial Ignore?), likely severe balance issues (green naga I just couldn't beat on level 1 & whatever killed me outside the gate), and the procedural wilderness (can turn that off in birth options, it says).
Zangband's last fork from Angband was Angband 2.8.1.
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The BGM tracks use the following licenses:
CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
CC 0: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Readme with links to each track on opengameart.org: https://github.com/hengband/hengband.xtra/blob/131d2b9a14c3952c22d41de002d36e4fc6d41288/music/readme.txt
12/14/22
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