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Page last updated 25th Oct 2001

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NB: This page is 'in transition' - only my front-end source code, the angsound archives, Zangband 2.6.2, and Vanilla 2.9.3 (with/without APW Borg) are currently available from here!

25th October 2001

• Added Angband 2.9.3 & APW Borg
• Added Zangband 2.6.2

• Added Angband 2.9.1 & Zangband 2.4.0

• Angband 2.9.0 is here!
• Started auto-generating much of this page... This should make it less likely that I'll get the downloads section wrong :)

• Updated Zangband to version 2.2.8

Angband 2.9.3

The original, Vanilla Angband.

Angband is a "graphical" dungeon adventure game using textual characters to represent the walls and floors of a dungeon and the inhabitants thereof, in the vein of rogue, hack, nethack, and moria.

All the other variants on this page are basically modifications and enhancements of vanilla Angband. As such, if you've never played Angband before, you might find it pays to try the original before the variants.

The Borg (an automatic player) is available for Angband. I've compiled a version of Angband with the Borg but due to its size/memory requirements it's probably only really usable on 4Mb machines. For this reason, the Borg-enabled version of Angband is available for this page as an 'update' to the normal archive.

Cthangband 3.1.2b

Like Kamband, Cthangband is a variation of a variant - Zangband in this case.

Cthangband originally had a lot of the 'silliness' of Zangband removed and the whole game reworked in a Cthulu/Lovecraft style. Since then it's developed in its own way and is now a variant in its own right.

The towns have several neat features including multiple stores (eg. two armouries) and there are multiple towns with a wilderness between them.

Other differences to vanilla Angband include a different way of handling monsters that breed explosively. In Cthangband such monsters will only reproduce for a fixed number of generations so it is possible to clear out a massive infestation of the little b*ggers...

Kamband 1.4, 1.7 and 1.8

Current versions of this port make things a lot smoother by eliminating the disc accesses caused by the give humanoids names, etc. options.

Kamband boasts lots of extra features over vanilla Angband. In part, this is because it is itself a variation on a variant (Kangband).

Extra features include: An expanded town area with wilderness Extra classes and races Quests An arena Pets (tame monsters) Religions Completely re-worked magic system Lots of other things I've forgotten :)

Kamband 1.7 also has: Reworked inventory/equipment system More Town layouts Magical Arena as well as the non-magical ones More Gods (especially at deeper levels). Lots of other good stuff. Plenty of bugs from 1.5 fixed :-) (Optional) 'vault-like' shops Even more quests... Kamband 1.8 also boasts an infinite scrolling wilderness.

Because Kamband 1.7 and later are quite different to 1.4 I'm going to leave 1.4 on these pages for the time being. I'll also keep 1.7 available for as long as I can, just in case.

Oangband 0.4.0

Opinion Angband

Oangband is a variant of Angband, created to experiment with changes in melee algorithms, spells, items, monsters, a substantial reduction in both HPs and damage, and whatever else might both catch Leon Marrick's fancy and be practicable for him to code. Appropriately, it is called Opinion-Angband, or Oangband.

I'll keep Oangband 0.3.2 available from this page for the next couple of months (ie. until this page gets too unweildy or I run out of web-space again...) just in case anyone wants to stick with the older version (for competitions, or whatever), however only 0.4.0 will be updated with any changes to the front-end, etc.

Pziband 2.1.0e

Psionic Zangband

Pziband takes Zangband 2.1.0e and adds the Psionic abilities, classes, etc. from Psionic Angband.

Yin-YAngband 1.0

Yin-YAngband extends Angband by adding Mana Batteries which can be used to store Mana. It also has a Mutant tace which receives random bonuses to statistics.

Dungeon generation has been made mor interesting by inflating the chance of various things being 'special' in some way.

Zangband 2.1.1c, 2.2.8, 2.4.0

The Z stands for Zelazny - Zangband adds monsters and objects from R.Zelazny's Amber fantasy series to Angband. This is probably the most popular Angband variant of all.

There's a lot of extras in Zangband, including: Completely rewritten magic system (based on the game Master of Magic) Extra races (some have special powers) and classes New Vaults, traps, weapons and armour Small levels and open 'Arena' style levels New monsters Pets (tame monsters) Quests Plenty more :)

Zangband 2.2.8 also features: Lots more monsters Multiple towns and wilderness Even more weapons, armour, and ammo etc. Exploding, aquatic, swimming, and flying monsters. (optional) Random selection of race, etc. when creating a character Even more mutations Better sound support (more events) ...and lots more besides!

Zangband 2.2.3 (and later) use a lot less memory than the earlier 2.2.x versions and are now easily runnable on a 4Mb machine (the earlier versions could just about be crammed in but it wasn't pretty).

About my ports

• Zap style fonts for the screen display. At last: a high-resolution Angband for RISC OS :)
  Use a different size/style of font in every window if you want to :)
• Will automatically detect Zap's fonts if it is loaded and offer them alongside some carefully chosen and specially created ones of its own.
• Fast single-tasking full-screen mode, particularly suitable for older (and slower) machines.
  Switch between full-screen and desktop mode at any time whilst playing.
• Support for sound - see the Sound section.
• Variable gamma correction
• Doesn't require the ToolBox modules - just RISC OS 2 (or later).
  NB: The archives on this page will only work under RISC OS 3 or later; mail me if you need a RISC OS 2 version for any reason.
• Keyboard handling is compatible with K.Bracey's ports (so .prf files should migrate properly)
• Some helpful (and common) macros predefined (eg. shift-keypad for 'run')
• Supplied with an easy to install .prf file that will cause the dungeon features to be drawn using IBM-style graphics characters.

Sound Support

Angband has a fairly primitive sound system built in; basically this entails the front-end trying to play a sound when certain events occur.

You can set the sound-effect volume level as well as enable/disable sound effects at will.

For example, when your character gains an experience level the game will try to play an appropriate sound, similarly for when your character dies, something is dropped, etc.

There can be several sounds associated with any single event (in which case one will be chosen at random each time) and you can easily add your own.

My ports use Rick Hudson's PlayIt module to actually play the sounds, and store the sounds centrally (so that all the variants can share the same files - it's still possible for each variant to have sounds, etc. specific to it however).

The sound files are stored in a resource directory called !AngSound which automatically allows the games to find them. In addition, !AngSound contains a copy of PlayIt which it will ensure is loaded if you explicitly run (eg. double-click on) it. As of front-end version 1.23 even this is unnecessary since the game is now capable of loading PlayIt automatically if required.

There is a small archive available in the (Downloads section)which upgrades AngSound release 3 to release 4.

Downloads

NB: This page is 'in transition' - only my front-end source code, the angsound archives, Zangband 2.6.2, and Vanilla 2.9.3 (with/without APW Borg) are currently available from here!

All the archives here are Zip files. Decompress with SparkFS, SparkPlug or the InfoZip command line tools.

NB:If you are using SparkPlug 2.24 or earlier then I strongly recommend that you download a newer version. Earlier versions can convert some filenames wrongly when dearchiving.

If you're using an older machine (ie. pre-RiscPC) then you should probably check out the minimum system requirements for the game you're interested in.

All 'current' variants here have been compiled with version 1.26 of my front-end code. Some older versions are still here (for one reason or another) which may use older versions of the front-end.

I strongly recommend that you upgrade to AngSound release 4 if you wish to use sound effects with any of these games.

NB: The APW Borg is an upgrade archive - you must download (and install) the full Vanilla 2.9.3 release before installing the Borg archive.

Current Versions

  Angband 2.9.3          590Kb Zipfile   25 Oct 2001
    APW Borg for 2.9.3   468Kb Zipfile   25 Oct 2001
  Cthangband 3.1.2b      773Kb Zipfile   02 Sep 1999
  Kamband 1.8            920Kb Zipfile   02 Sep 1999
  Oangband 0.4.0         735Kb Zipfile   02 Sep 1999
  Pziband 2.1.0e         766Kb Zipfile   02 Sep 1999
  Sangband 0.9.5b        542Kb Zipfile   02 Sep 1999
  Yin-Yangband 1.0       511Kb Zipfile   02 Sep 1999
  Zangband 2.6.2        1050Kb Zipfile   25 Oct 2001

Older Versions

  Angband 2.8.3          513Kb Zipfile   02 Sep 1999
  Cthangband 3.0.1       725Kb Zipfile   17 Apr 1999
  Kamband 1.7            908Kb Zipfile   02 Sep 1999
  Kamband 1.4            670Kb Zipfile   02 Sep 1999
  Oangband 0.3.2         637Kb Zipfile   17 Apr 1999
  Zangband 2.2.8         988Kb Zipfile   25 Dec 1999
  Zangband 2.1.1c        730Kb Zipfile   02 Sep 1999

Sound Support

  Release 4              526Kb Zipfile   07 May 1999
  Upgrade Rel.3 to 4       9Kb Zipfile   07 May 1999

NB: This page is 'in transition' - only my front-end source code, the angsound archives, Zangband 2.6.2, and Vanilla 2.9.3 (with/without APW Borg) are currently available from here!

Links

RISC OS Specific links:

• Frequently Asked Questions about my ports.
• Some other RISC OS Angband ports maintained by Tom Harris.
• Michael Barnes' page with other Angband variants for RISC OS.
• Henry Helliwell's Angband page with PernAngband for RISC OS.
• Musus Umbra's RISC OS Angband Utilities - some little applications that try to make life easier (Shameless plug, or what? :)
• Older Angband ports - Ports based on Kevin Bracey's front-end and RISC OS versions of Omega, etc.

Non-RISC OS specific links:

• Thangorodrim - a very nice set of Angband pages with lots of information on Angband variants (including those above). Also the home of Zangband.
• The Angband Newbie Guide information and help for new players.
• The Official Angband Homepage - lots of information and links.
• The Angband Code; here's my AngbandCode:

  AngbandCode 2.2.0:
  A +(Great Wyrm of Law) Thundergut D P L:43 A+ R+ Sp w:Ringil
  A/C/Km/O/S/Z Ac H- D@ c f- PV+/+++ s@ d P- M/+
  C--/- S+ I-/++ So+ B/+ ac++ GHB SQ/+ RQ++ V@ F:A Scroll of *Slay* Tarrasque ;)

• The Sangband Homepage
• The Oangband development site has spoilers and information about Oangband.
• The Angband Addict is the home of Cthangband.
• George's Competition Page - the home page for a (hopefully) regular competition; see how you fare compared with the denizens of rec.games.roguelike.angband!

You might also like to subscribe to the rec.games.roguelike.angband newsgroup, where all manner of help and advice is available. There are even RISC OS users reading/posting there (shock!).