Next competition

[PaulBlay]

I think this might be a better option - especially since TinyAngband is new to pretty much everyone. If you want to send me a savefile, I'll get it organised in the next couple of days.

Will do. Er, pm me your email?

I'll get in contact with iks and update him on developments.

[Nick]

Will do. Er, pm me your email?

Every spammer on the planet has it already:
nckmccnnll@yahoo.com.au

[PaulBlay]

Every spammer on the planet has it already:

Should I offer congratulations?

Looking at the Competition Rules it suggests that having a 'decent monster memory' is recommended so would a low level knowledge of all monsters be a plus? (iks is going to be handling the save file).

[EDIT] OK, I think we're good to go. I'll email you the save file.

[EDITx2] Apparently the person we were hoping for a OS X binary from is busy this week (and it wasn't as easy as hoped). However there is the following information relayed from iks:

If make and gcc for OSX are installed from OSX CD, OSX binary can be
compiled as follows:
% ./configure --disable-japanese --disable-sdl_mixer; make; make install

X for OSX should be installed from CD.

[Nick]

If make and gcc for OSX are installed from OSX CD, OSX binary can be
compiled as follows:

% ./configure --disable-japanese --disable-sdl-mixer; make; make install

(small typo corrected ) also works for linux.

[Pete Mack]

If make and gcc for OSX are installed from OSX CD, OSX binary can be
compiled as follows:
% ./configure --disable-japanese --disable-sdl_mixer; make; make install

X for OSX should be installed from CD.

PS: X for OSX is now officially part of the OS, and does not need to be installed. (Post 10.4)

Nevertheless, the X version is much uglier and the UI is noticeably worse than OSX native

I suppose I should give it a spin. If I like it I can do the port. They don't take more than 2 hours with the current main-crb.c, though the makefile is a bit of a pain for non-portable builds. (ie: makefile.inc and/or makefile.src is not present)

[PaulBlay]

They don't take more than 2 hours with the current main-crb.c, though the makefile is a bit of a pain for non-portable builds. (ie: makefile.inc and/or makefile.src is not present)

If you do, then send it on to me so I can send it to iks (or just pm iks for his email address). My email is blay.paul AT googlemail.com

(I don't know why I bother spam trapping the address - I've got 484 emails waiting to be auto-deleted in gmail's spam folder )

[Donald Jonker]

Oooh I hadn't realized Tinyband was a variant of Hengband...need to read more good. I suppose Xangband must be as well. I'll be checking it out directly.

[Nick]

My first thought is that, with four rogues* and a warrior in the last five competitions, it's probably time for a spellcaster.

Maybe next time...

[PaulBlay]

Maybe next time...

Oh, yes. I forgot about that post. ^ ^;

iks thought that Warrior would be the best choice for a variant you're playing for the first time.

[Nick]

Competition 98

OK, I'm doing a bit of thread necromancy here because I want to make it a regular thing to discuss the next comp beforehand, and this thread already has some useful info in it. I'll ask pav to make it sticky.

The current comp has a few days to run, and I'm intending to have another V comp for 99. The obvious choices for 98 are RePos or Cheng, and I'd appreciate a savefile. My email is included at least twice in this thread...

[Sirridan]

I'll get back to you with a re-pos file, but I'd be interested in Chengband too

[dos350]

hi , please turn on stairs in competition~ thanks .. eeeee

[Timo Pietilä]

hi , please turn on stairs in competition~ thanks .. eeeee

So that you could stair-scum because you have no skill to play game othewise? I don't think that would happen.

[dos350]

please no rage, i like stair scum, ee~ i think its good time.. if u dont, please dont do it... ???

[Derakon]

The entire point of a competition is to put everyone on an even footing. If you stairscum and the rest of us don't, then you get an unfair advantage. Going with disconnected stairs simply obviates that issue by ensuring that nobody can stairscum.