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| From | Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.sys.acorn.games, comp.sys.acorn.apps |
| Subject | Re: Angband variants |
| Date | 2021-08-07 11:33 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <selr34$498$1@solani.org> (permalink) |
| References | <749cd85359.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> <d4f5515659.harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> |
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Am Tue, 03 Aug 2021 19:10:12 +0100 schrieb Harriet Bazley: > Harriet Bazley wrote in comp.sys.acorn.games: > >> None of the old Angband variants that I used to play so >> enthusiastically on my A5000 seem to function on an ARMX6 even under >> Aemulor, despite the fact that they are basically ASCII text displayed >> in a desktop window. ... >> I'm not all that interested in getting the latest Angband developments >> ported to RISC OS - many of the old variants have long since ceased >> development anyway - but it would be nice to be able to get back some >> of the plethora of ports that used to be available, all of them so far >> as I remember based off a single 'Angband compiling kit' that provides >> a standard WIMP front end. >> https://rec.games.roguelike.angband.narkive.com/j3kwr1kh/announce-risc- os-ports >> Looking at the Angband forums, where all the prior Usenet activity now >> seems to reside, I see postings like "There comes a time in all >> development projects where legacy support must be cut, and you must >> make your users move on.[...] I think it's reasonably safe to say that >> support for RISC is rather... unnecessary." :-( >> http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=2484 I don't think so. There are many people left and probably there are some 'new' too wich are willing to try RISC OS as a platform. Some of them would probably appreciate a new version. Most of them would arrange with an older version - if it runs on newer machines. As long as an Emulator runs on the new machine I think it should be possible to use the old versions directly. > I've managed to trace Musus Umbra's original Angband porting package > http://www.zen22994.zen.co.uk/musus/angband/compiling.htm but that was > the generation before Antony Sidwell's "32-bit" ports - which are the > ones that don't seem to work on the ARMX6's Cortex-A9 processor - so > probably not a good basis for recompilation. :-( > > Antony Sidwell's site http://ajps.mine.au and its Angband-Kit no longer > seem to exist. That's really a shame if so many sites are gone and nobody ever made a copy wich allows to reconstruct them. I only had the version that was availabe from StuttgartFTP - it worked perfectly on A5000 and other 3.1 machines. Never ever tried to use Angband on a new machine. But I know that there are some new "graphic'isch" versions for Unix/Linux/Win - eventually one of them will compile directly on a Cortex machine ??
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Re: Angband variants Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2021-08-07 11:33 +0000
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