Experiences with new Angband 4.2.5 and questions about Identifying and Variants

[Michaelyx]

Locate is not installed in Ubuntu 24.0.4 LTS

$ locate Orome | grep save
Der Befehl 'locate' wurde nicht gefunden, kann aber installiert werden mit:
sudo apt install plocate
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Do you meen plocate would be worth a try? In the wiki mlocate is suggested.
I'm not sure about the advantages and don't want to install programs if not necessary.

[PowerDiver]

Maybe try locate instead of find.

locate <capitalized username> | grep save

For example, my username is eddie but the current 4.2.5 savefile is Eddie. In the old days, it was 1000.Eddie.

[Michaelyx]

Thank you for your support!

First a correction: There was a typo in my last posting; the folder should be called lib/user/save.

The current save file is also not in ~/.angband/Angband/save/.
I couldn't find anything with find -name either. Is it possible that the save files are named differently in the current version of Angband?
I don't think it's anything special in a roguelike game that there is no "personal" save file. The seemingly unnecessary lib/user/save folder irritates me.
Maybe someone can shed some light on this.

[Nick]

If I save a previously created copy back into /lib/usr/save it is ignored. And when I accidentally moved the entire save folder with mv I was still able to start and continue the game. How can that be?

OK. Have you looked in ~/.angband/Angband/save/ ?

[Michaelyx]

If I save a previously created copy back into /lib/usr/save it is ignored. And when I accidentally moved the entire save folder with mv I was still able to start and continue the game. How can that be?

[Nick]

If configured --with-no-install, savefies should be in lib/user/save/ .

[Michaelyx]

I try to use my old char save files in the new compiled Angband.
In the .configure output for the installed version I found: “private save and score files in ~/.angband/Angband/”
Is there a way to use save files if angband was created --with-no-install?

[Egavactip]

There is no mushroom effects that are than temporarily inconvenient, and the same goes for potions, scrolls, etc. This doesn't mean that there aren't bad times to try a new one

Oh, were that only so. A mushroom of purging can kill you in the wrong circumstances, while getting a potion that raises a stat and lowers another one can be extremely damaging if it affects your strength in the early game. Similarly, deep descent can be very dangerous, etc.

[PowerDiver]

I just tested the latest version from github, and the menus worked for me as well. It appears that Wayland is enabled on my distro.

[Nick]

Excellent. Quite a bit of work has been done on it since 4.2.5 came out, mostly (all?) by backwardsEric.

[Michaelyx]

Thx for your hints!

The problem that the menu doesn't respond at all only exists with the version from Refial.org.
With the current version of github the menu works and grafics too.

[PowerDiver]

I tested in an old ubuntu maybe 16 that failed the upgrade process, years ago, so it's hardly clean, on an old laptop whose built in graphics was problematic for linux when it was new. It hardly seems worth the effort to debug, but if you want me to run any diagnostics just let me know. I noticed Michael was doing things that do not go together, system install but copying the executable up, so I tested the simple build but got the same results. The next time I boot it up I'll try to see if Wayland is running and if I can disable it.

[backwardsEric]

Michaelyx or PowerDiver, details about what desktop environment is in use might help diagnose what's going wrong. In the past, there was some concern that this sort of behavior came from SDL2 using Wayland so if you can tell whether Wayland is in use, that might also help. Details about the graphics card likely don't matter since this is an input problem, but if you want to pass that information along go ahead.

Probably should have a way for SDL2 front end to spit out what renderer implementation, video driver, and if there's a way to get it, details about the mouse and keyboard handling so it is easier to troubleshoot this kind of problem.

[PowerDiver]

I never played with tiles, and you inspired me to give it a shot. I got the same behavior. Clicking on the menu choices does nothing. The only difference was that I used --with-no-install.

You have configured for a system installation. Your #10 should be irrelevant.

[Michaelyx]

In previous post I made a few mistakes - here is the corrected procedure as I did it.

1. Load angband-4.2.5.tar.gz from https://rephial.org/
2. Unpacked in Finder under Downloads by double-clicking.
3. Next in the terminal: cd ~/Downloads/angband-4.2.5
4. sudo apt-get install automake libtool
5. sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev
6. ./autogen.sh
7. ./configure --enable-sdl2
8. make
9. sudo make install
10. cp -a ./src/angband ./angband
11. angband -msdl2

Angband starts but the menu doesn't work. I can't go to full screen mode, select tiles, or do any of the options it offers.
I hope someone can give me a hint as to why this isn't working properly: