Angband variant repository

[Nick]

The Angband variant repository now has source for Angband and 96 variants, derivatives and patches. There are still a few missing, for two main reasons:

1. I haven't found any source code. Variants here are:
   • CAngband
   • CyAngband
   • Diabloband
   • GSNband
   • GSN2band
   • Smutiband
   • FFVIIband
   • Flavor Angband
   • Gerband
2. The variant branched from Angband after version 3.0.6, and I am still waiting on the source for 3.0.7s1 and 3.0.7s2. Once I have this I will put up these variants:
   • Angband/65
   • Craftband
   • DaJAngband
   • Jackband
   • Neoband
   • RePosband
   • Touhou Angband

There is also Cryptband, which I haven't done yet because I can't work out which version it branched from; and a few Japanese-only variants which I may chase down at some point.

Please let me know if I have missed anything. At some point I will probably add some description to at least some of the variant pages; if anyone wants to write such descriptions, I'd be happy to accept them. I would also be very pleased if anyone could contribute any source that I'm missing (for many variants I don't have all releases).

[HallucinationMushroom]

Congrats Nick, you are now a dual class Maintainer/Archivist. You must split your xp accordingly.

[takkaria]

I am sad that GSNBand has gone missing! I remember it being around when I first got into Angband in the late 90s...

[Nick]

Congrats Nick, you are now a dual class Maintainer/Archivist. You must split your xp accordingly.

As I get older there's also an xp tax where you lose a fraction to "forgot".

[Nick]

I am sad that GSNBand has gone missing! I remember it being around when I first got into Angband in the late 90s...

Yeah, there are still some compiled versions around (at Furytech, for example), but I couldn't find any source.

I really am very keen to track down more source for this and other variants if possible. So if anyone has old zipfiles or tarballs lying around, please let me know.

[Pete Mack]

Nick, you mean this?

http://www.angband.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gsn2.html

(It's linked from Roguebasin.)

[Nick]

Nick, you mean this?

http://www.angband.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/gsn2.html

(It's linked from Roguebasin.)

That's GSN2 - GSN has a similar (and longer) page on the same site. Sadly, all the links are dead, even in the wayback machine.

Thanks for the suggestion, though - I'm hoping that there are places out there I haven't found. I'm considering a mass spam to old maintainer email addresses at some point, too.

[Nick]

I now believe that the Angband Variant Repository is up to date, as far as I can make it.

Please have a look and

1. Point out any variant I have missed;
2. Give me links to any versions I have not included;
3. Send me any version you may have lying around on your hard drive that is not included.

Note that this is source only; there are other places (some of them linked off the variant repo page) where compiled versions can be found.

[MattB]

I now believe that the Angband Variant Repository is up to date, as far as I can make it.

Please have a look and

1. Point out any variant I have missed;
2. Give me links to any versions I have not included;
3. Send me any version you may have lying around on your hard drive that is not included.

Note that this is source only; there are other places (some of them linked off the variant repo page) where compiled versions can be found.

There's a FinalFantasyVII-band?
That's awesome! Where can I get it? I want to fight Chocobos!

(And is Smutiband as much fun as it sounds?)

[Nick]

There's a FinalFantasyVII-band?
That's awesome! Where can I get it? I want to fight Chocobos!

(And is Smutiband as much fun as it sounds?)

Sadly, there is no source for either. I don't recall even finding binaries for FFVIIband, and Smutiband I think there was an existing Mac OS 9 version, or something.

[ekolis]

Oh wow, my mostly nonfunctional variant Jackband is going to be archived? I never got very far with that thing, so I can't even remember if it's playable...

[Nick]

Oh wow, my mostly nonfunctional variant Jackband is going to be archived?

Is archived

[debo]

Sadly, there is no source for either. I don't recall even finding binaries for FFVIIband

Is this it, or is this something different?

[Nick]

Is this it, or is this something different?

Yep, that's it - windows version. Can't find source still, and the website is geocities...

[AnonymousHero]

Yep, that's it - windows version. Can't find source still, and the website is geocities...

I seem to recall some "internet historians" trying to rescue Geocities by mirroring all of it. I'm not sure how far they got...

I think http://www.oocities.org/ may be it.