Experiences with Frog-knows

[Jungle_Boy]

I've always wondered why this is the case. I presume it's because in order to avoid instadeath it ends up terribly boring. I think this boosts my case for fixing #572 properly - if we could guarantee that a polymorphee would never get a move before @, we could open up the range of possibilities again, because you'd get at least one turn to get away from the Great Storm Wyrm.

I never use polymorph because it seems like any monster I would want to change into something less dangerous is immune to it.

[Magnate]

Modern polymorph is too boring to ever use.

I've always wondered why this is the case. I presume it's because in order to avoid instadeath it ends up terribly boring. I think this boosts my case for fixing #572 properly - if we could guarantee that a polymorphee would never get a move before @, we could open up the range of possibilities again, because you'd get at least one turn to get away from the Great Storm Wyrm.

[Magnate]

That's it but it's unplayable for me, it's in dos terminal window, getting alot of graphical corruption, I might need to make a windows me platform to play these older games.

Google for dosbox.

[Timo Pietilä]

just do be curious, are you guying playing this in a dos port, or did you re-compile for windows? I like the older games, I played Moria extensively, but never got to experiment with versions of angband older than 3.0.3, and would like to give it a whirl.

can you recompile that old a version for windows?

Funny thing with (very old) Frog-Knows binary is that it runs without problems directly in 32bit XP, but there was some graphics problem with floor so I run it in dosbox.

[Malak Darkhunter]

I found something I would think is Frog-Knows (named angband-24f-win) here

That's it but it's unplayable for me, it's in dos terminal window, getting alot of graphical corruption, I might need to make a windows me platform to play these older games.

[thapper]

I found something I would think is Frog-Knows (named angband-24f-win) here

[nppangband]

just do be curious, are you guying playing this in a dos port, or did you re-compile for windows? I like the older games, I played Moria extensively, but never got to experiment with versions of angband older than 3.0.3, and would like to give it a whirl.

can you recompile that old a version for windows?

There should be plenty of windows binaries out there for every one of the older versions, and compiling the source shouldn't be a problem either. It's just "C", after all. Although that was before windows xp changed certain things in how blank spaces (better known as walls in the Angband world) were displayed. Some pref files might need to be edited so the walls appear as '#", but that's about it.

[Derakon]

1) Reach level 11
2) Try out how polymorph works back in those days
3) Teleport away from the Great Storm Wyrm and resolve never to use polymorph ever again

No, no, no. See, what you do is, you go stand on the stairs in the town and polymorph townspeople. Then you kill the ones you can and flee the ones you can't via the stairs. Easy experience! Of course the rewards are crap and you'd probably get better results from the dungeon, but oh well.

Modern polymorph is too boring to ever use. Frog-knows polymorph at least had entertainment on its side.

[Malak Darkhunter]

just do be curious, are you guying playing this in a dos port, or did you re-compile for windows? I like the older games, I played Moria extensively, but never got to experiment with versions of angband older than 3.0.3, and would like to give it a whirl.

can you recompile that old a version for windows?

[UglySquirrell]

1) Reach level 11
2) Try out how polymorph works back in those days
3) Teleport away from the Great Storm Wyrm and resolve never to use polymorph ever again

Awesome, big holy s*%& moments are always fun do the ladders allow posting Frog Characters?

[Timo Pietilä]

1) Reach level 11
2) Try out how polymorph works back in those days
3) Teleport away from the Great Storm Wyrm and resolve never to use polymorph ever again

For some reason I have hard time stopping laughing....

[kaypy]

1) Reach level 11
2) Try out how polymorph works back in those days
3) Teleport away from the Great Storm Wyrm and resolve never to use polymorph ever again

[Nick]

I like to think of it more as a brutal mugging rather than murder

, officer.

[buzzkill]

My favorite memory from 2.4 F-K was that I got PDSM from Maggot. Just because of that single act of kindness 15 yrs ago. I am reluctant to kill Maggot in my games today.

I like to think of it more as a brutal mugging rather than murder. You beat him into submission, take what you want, and leave him for dead (and then he somehow manages to survive).

[APWhite]

My favorite memory from 2.4 F-K was that I got PDSM from Maggot. Just because of that single act of kindness 15 yrs ago. I am reluctant to kill Maggot in my games today.