News - April 2001

Daily news from the world of roguelike games: Roguelike News

25th April 2001

• Amiga ports
  This time KAngband 2.9.2r2 and KAmband 2.0 have been ported to the Amiga by Bablos.
• Gumband 2.1.5a
  Joseph William Dixon added the ability to play the game as the ghost to his variant Gumband and released the source code and a DOS version. And there is also a Windows version compiled by Franklin Bratcher.
• Updated Borgband
  Dennis van Es released another update for Borgband as source code and Windows version. The new version adds a portable way to restart the Borg when it dies.
• Angband for BeOS
  Reko Turja compiled Angband 2.9.2 with the APW Borg for BeOS.

• Angband for PocketPC
  Bolt Vanderhuge created a WindowsCE port of Angband. He compiled versions for ARM, MIPS, and SH3 processors. Bug-reports, comments, suggestions, and feedback about the user-defineable controls are welcome and should be directed to vanderhuge1@yahoo.com.
• EyAngband 0.3.1b ports
  The new EyAngband version has been ported to the Amiga by Bablos, and to PPC and 68k Macs by "Gileba".

• OAngband for Windows
  Version 0.5.1 of OAngband has been ported to Windows by Bahman Rabii.
• EyAngband 0.3.1b
  Eytan Zweig released a new version of EyAngband as source code and Windows version. Take a look at the rather long list of changes to find out what has changed since version 0.3.0.
• Amiga ports
  The never tiring Bablos ported ZAngband 2.5.5, NewAngband 1.0.1b, and Gumband 2.1.4a to the Amiga.
• KAngband 2.9.2r2
  John I'anson-Holton released the source code and a Windows version of KAngband 2.9.2r2. Take a look at the list of changes to find out what new features it has.
• Acorn Angband
  Tom Harris ported Angband 2.9.2 to the Acorn RISC OS machines. He also compiled a version with the APW Borg.
• ZAngband 2.5.5 for OS/2
  The latest ZAngband development version has been ported to OS/2 by Skylar Thompson.
• Borgband update
  Dennis van Es released an update for Borgband. The source code and a Windows version are available for download.
• Thangorodrim updates
  Eytan Zweig helped me updating the Patches Page with many of the newer patches available. I've also updated the monster spoilers for Angband 2.9.2 and ZAngband 2.4.0.

• ZAngband 2.5.5 development version
  The ZAngband DevTeam released the source code, Windows, and DOS versions of a new ZAngband development version. New features include about one hundred new store types (Jeweler, Clothes Store, Fletcher, Scroll Store, Ammo Supplies, Potion Store, ...), a 'monster list' term type, which displays a list of the monsters you can see, as well as many other enhancements and game balance tweaks. You can find the details in the list of changes.
• Amiga ports
  Bablos ported EyAngband 0.3.0, Gumband 2.1.3b, OAngband 0.5.1, and KAngband 2.9.2r1 to the Amiga.
• (J)Angband/64 beta 7 release 2
  Jurriaan Kalkman prepared a new version of his variant (J)Angband/64. Take a look at the list of changes to find out what is new.
• OAngband for DOS
  Joseph William Dixon compiled the new OAngband 0.5.1 for MS-DOS.
• Mac ports
  Mac versions of Angband 2.9.2, KAngband 2.9.2r1, Borgband, and the APW Borg have been released by "Gileba".
• Angband for Linux
  Skylar Thompson released a pre-compiled Linux version of Angband 2.9.2.
• Gumband 2.1.4a
  Joseph William Dixon updated his variant Gumband and released source and DOS versions.

• Gumband 2.1.3b
  Joseph William Dixon released a new Gumband version as source and DOS version. Franklin Bratcher compiled it for Windows and "Gileba" for PPC Macs. In addition Skylar Thompson ported the slightly older 2.1.3a version to OS/2. Details about the new versions can be found in the changelog.
• EyAngband 0.3.0
  The source code and a Windows binary of a new EyAngband version have been released by Eytan Zweig. "Gileba" already ported it to 68k and PPC Macs and Adam Horowitz compiled it for MS-DOS. The list of changes since version 0.2.3 explains all the new features and bugfixes.
• Borgband
  Dennis van Es updated Borgband to the Angband 2.9.2 codebase and added some new features to the Borg. The detailed changelog can be found on the Borgband homepage.
• OAngband 0.5.1
  A new OAngband version by Bahman Rabii is now available as source code and "Gileba" already ported it to the Macs. The rather huge list of changes can be found here.
• KAngband 2.9.2r1
  John I'anson-Holton released the source code for an update to KAngband. Take a look at the list of changes to find out what new features it has.

© 2001 by Robert Rühlmann, rr9@thangorodrim.net