I rediscovered Angband late last year after about 15 years away from the game (played Moria, Umoria, Angband, Sangband, Zangband, and Oangband in the 90s and early 2000s).
Tried FAAngband and loved the wilderness with multiple towns and dungeons and appreciated that the combat was built on [O], which had been my favorite back in the day. Unfortunately, a few weeks later I upgraded my old Mac (which was running MacOS 10.9.5) to a new machine (running 10.14.4) and I am now unable to get any of the pre-compiled versions of [FA] to launch.
So, I have two questions:
(1) How feasible is it for a novice to compile the game themselves for MacOS? I'm willing to struggle through it if there is a reasonable chance of success. I see instructions for compiling [V] at rephial.org but, from browsing through some other forum posts, it sounds like those instructions may not work for some/many/any variants. Additional Background: My coding experience has been limited to making some of the world's most basic pong and asteroids games in my high school computers class 20+ years ago and a pretty basic website with Austin Powers sound clips when the internet was young. I can likely follow clear written instructions, but have basically no personal knowledge or experience to help me through the process.
(2) Can you suggest any other variants that are similar to [FA] or otherwise worth trying and that are available pre-compiled and will work on an up-to-date version of MacOS? I have Sil and it works, but isn't quite Angband-y enough for me.
Thanks!
Tried FAAngband and loved the wilderness with multiple towns and dungeons and appreciated that the combat was built on [O], which had been my favorite back in the day. Unfortunately, a few weeks later I upgraded my old Mac (which was running MacOS 10.9.5) to a new machine (running 10.14.4) and I am now unable to get any of the pre-compiled versions of [FA] to launch.
So, I have two questions:
(1) How feasible is it for a novice to compile the game themselves for MacOS? I'm willing to struggle through it if there is a reasonable chance of success. I see instructions for compiling [V] at rephial.org but, from browsing through some other forum posts, it sounds like those instructions may not work for some/many/any variants. Additional Background: My coding experience has been limited to making some of the world's most basic pong and asteroids games in my high school computers class 20+ years ago and a pretty basic website with Austin Powers sound clips when the internet was young. I can likely follow clear written instructions, but have basically no personal knowledge or experience to help me through the process.
(2) Can you suggest any other variants that are similar to [FA] or otherwise worth trying and that are available pre-compiled and will work on an up-to-date version of MacOS? I have Sil and it works, but isn't quite Angband-y enough for me.
Thanks!
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