How to compile very old Angband versions?

[lea2501]

I noticed that the current angband compile i have has the save file in lib/save as you mentioned before:

$ ls -lahF ~/src/angband/lib/save/
total 44K
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 29 22:53 ./
drwxr-xr-x 14 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 22:52 ../
-rw-------  1 lea lea  34K Oct 29 22:53 User

So i created the file in the old 2.9.3 compile, also copied the current save file there, but the error persist

$ ls -lahF ~/games/roguelikes/angband/angband-2.9.3/lib/save/
total 64K
drwxr-xr-x  2 lea lea 4.0K Oct 30 07:49 ./
drwxr-xr-x 13 lea lea 4.0K Oct 27 23:49 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea    0 Sep 29  2012 delete.me
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea 5.3K Oct 27 23:49 Makefile
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea  356 Sep 29  2012 Makefile.am
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea 5.3K Sep 29  2012 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r--  1 lea lea  34K Oct 30 07:50 User

[Nick]

Have you tried

~/.angband/Angband/save

the same as modern private user paths? That was present in 2.9.3, I'm not sure if it was used by default, though.

[lea2501]

Have you tried

~/.angband/Angband/save

the same as modern private user paths? That was present in 2.9.3, I'm not sure if it was used by default, though.

no, in that directory i have the angband files of my linux distribution (devuan) angband package installed with apt, or you mean to copy that file to the angband 2.9.3 compilation directory?

what i don't understand, is that if i use the following commands:

./configure --prefix $HOME/.angband_2.9.3
make clean
make 
make install

the angband executable and files are in the directory of the src files, and not in the prefixed one.

i also tried the "./configure" with no parameters and i get the same result, the only difference is with "./configure --with-no-install" this gives me the angband executable under the "src" directory, and not in the current directory (the decompressed sources directory)

[Cuboideb]

./src/angband -uUser -mgcu -- -n1

Copy the executable to the parent folder and start it from there.

[lea2501]

./src/angband -uUser -mgcu -- -n1

Copy the executable to the parent folder and start it from there.

but this is the current version in this directory, that works perfectly, no "Savefile does not exist. -more-" error, the problem is the 2.9.3 version, that no matter what i try, i get that error after compile.

[backwardsEric]

However, when i start the game with

./src/angband -uUser -mgcu -- -n1

it fails to start showing a message saying

Savefile does not exist. -more-

Any idea of where i need to create it?

The problem likely isn't with the savefile or the savefile directory but with getting stuck in an infinite loop in the random number generator (at least that's what happens when I follow your steps on a x86_64 system). Doing this (so compiling doesn't assume that long is a 32-bit type) for configuration seems to solve the infinite loop problem:

env CFLAGS=-DL64 ./configure --with-no-install
make clean
make

(the "make clean" step there is just to ensure that it's not using the previously compiled object files).

[lea2501]

The problem likely isn't with the savefile or the savefile directory but with getting stuck in an infinite loop in the random number generator (at least that's what happens when I follow your steps on a x86_64 system). Doing this (so compiling doesn't assume that long is a 32-bit type) for configuration seems to solve the infinite loop problem:

env CFLAGS=-DL64 ./configure --with-no-install
make clean
make

(the "make clean" step there is just to ensure that it's not using the previously compiled object files).

It worked! (but not with those commands)

what i did was the following:

I edited src/Makefile.std and uncommented these lines (129 and 130):

## Variation -- Only support "main-gcu.c" (not "main-x11.c")
##
CFLAGS = -Wall -O1 -pipe -g -D"USE_GCU" -DL64
LIBS = -lcurses -ltermcap

Then i run these commands:

$ export CFLAGS=-DL64
$ ./configure --with-no-install
$ make clean
$ make

and now it works! thank you all! i will try to play 2.9.3 and then check if i can compile even more ancient builds, just to take a look at them, my initial point was to play the angband version that frogcomposband, and in fact zangband derived!

[Gwarl]

I haven't read this thread but MITZE told me about it,

I have a repository here called 2.9.3L which is a modernisation of 2.9.3

https://github.com/OwenGHB/angband-293L/commits/master

the first commit will get the thing to compile, the other commits give various things like a curses display that can go larger than 80x24 and a 'show visible monsters' command, an experience indicator that can be toggled to show experience required to level up (not just total experience), customiseable subwindow layouts in curses, and some code for angband.live to get the character info on the home page.