Harriet Bazley wrote:
> I'm fini****ng an article on Angband for Qercus magazine, and
> ideally need to know what the current state of play is for:
>
> central Angband website URL
> FTP download address
> RISC OS ****ts
> RISC OS maintainer
> ....
I haven't done any work on Angband for a long while, but as best as I
know:
The main Angband maintainer is currently Andrew Sidwell, who also
maintains the RISC OS ****t. http://www.rephial.org
is the main (Vanilla)
development site.
The main FTP site used to be clockwork.dementia.org, and then
ftp.thangorodrim.net, but both now appear to be down. The older stuff
seems to be available on ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/games/Angband, but the
newer stuff is a bit scattered. http://angband.oook.cz
seems to have
weblinks to the other "live" variants.
As far as I know, there have been two major ****ts of the game to RISC
OS. The first was by Kevin Bracey, around the 2.7.9 series, the second
(much improved) was by Musus Umbra in 1998 or so. I provided some very
minor help with the latter ****t and used it as a base to compile a
number of Angband variants in the few years thereafter. Andrew took over
the RISC OS frontend code at some point - he's listed as its current
maintainer if you download the 3.0.9 source and look at src/main-ros.c
I think that many of my RISC OS ****ts of variants have fallen off the
net - there's not much demand for them these days and they don't seem to
be on sunet. I've got a fairly complete set from the first few years and
would be very happy to send you any if you need them.
HTH,
Tom
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