How to use large screen size?

[kicker]

I've seen screenshots with a HUUUGE screen:

http://angband.oook.cz/screen-show.php?id=1440

How do I select this screen size?

Thanks!

[buzzkill]

I'm no expert, but I'd say...

Answer #1: Increase your screen resolution. Characters will get smaller and harder to read, but there will be more of them. A larger monitor will remedy that problem.

Answer #2: Play full screen/maximized, not in a window.

Answer #3: Offer a sacrifice (cash contribution) to the 'maintainer' of your choosing. Grumble... grumble.. damn maintainers.. grumble... think they're Gods.

[Zikke]

When I'm playing FA, I just maximize the window and then take a step and it redraws the screen to full size with all the fixins.

[Nile]

If you are using the Windows graphical version, on the top menu bar click Window -> Font -> Term-0 window. From there, select the font size of your liking. (I'm assuming you already have the window maxed out.)

Hope that helps!

Nile

[wuphonsreach]

Can this be done in Linux/Unix using xterm windows? Are there environment variables that have to be set to expand the main screen from 80x24 to say 120x40?

Looking at src/defines.h, it seems like "#define SCREEN_ROWS (Term->hgt - ROW_MAP - 1) " should give me a larger play area.

[d_m]

Can this be done in Linux/Unix using xterm windows? Are there environment variables that have to be set to expand the main screen from 80x24 to say 120x40?

Looking at src/defines.h, it seems like "#define SCREEN_ROWS (Term->hgt - ROW_MAP - 1) " should give me a larger play area.

If you're playing in an xterm (i.e. using the GCU port), just say "angband -mgc -- -b" to get a big screen.

[wuphonsreach]

$ angband -mgcu -- -b

That's exactly the command that I was looking for, thanks.

On modern 22-24" screens, the font size of 18pt gives me about a 118x37 playing area. Which is a nice improvement from the 80x24 default.

[d_m]

$ angband -mgcu -- -b

Errr... yes, sorry for the typo, and glad you're enjoying the big screen!

[odoyle]

...and for OSX users?

I run vanilla on OSX. Is there any hope for me to have ASCII in a large window like this? Playing 80x24 terminal at 18-pt font on a 26" monitor is LAME

[Derakon]

The Carbon OSX port (what you get by doing "make -f Makefile.osx") lets you simply resize the window. It'll automatically add and subtract rows and columns to fill the available space.

[odoyle]

ahh, ok, so don't use the precompiled one from the d/l page here then?

Mkay. Thanks!

[Derakon]

No, the precompiled one should be the Carbon one. I don't think the Cocoa build has become the standard yet, precisely because it doesn't change the number of rows/columns when you resize the window (instead it resizes the font).

What happens when you resize the window?

[odoyle]

well, I'm a moron. Sorry, man, I was trying the resize in town, which of course never gets any bigger.

D'oh!

Lol, working fine now. Rookie mistake. This is the 3.3 source, compiled using make -f Makefile.osx.

Boy, that looks better.

[wuphonsreach]

Images from PuTTY with the window maximized.

Lucidia, 18pt - 135x42 play area

http://www.wuphonsreach.org/Games/Angband/2012/Angband-3.3.2-GCU-Lucidia18pt-135x42.gif

Lucidia, 20pt - 118x38 play area

http://www.wuphonsreach.org/Games/Angband/2012/Angband-3.3.2-GCU-Lucidia20pt-118x38.gif

Overall, I think I prefer the 20pt font and the 118x38 display area.