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  • swim
    Apprentice
    • Mar 2021
    • 82

    #16
    You are a saint. This should be stickied!
    Last edited by swim; March 10, 2021, 16:25.

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    • tangar
      Veteran
      • Mar 2015
      • 1004

      #17
      Glad you like it! If anyone got new info about variants - don't hesitate to post in this topic, I'll update the table
      https://tangaria.com - Angband multiplayer variant
      tangaria.com/variants - Angband variants table
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      youtube.com/GameGlaz — streams in English ⍽ youtube.com/StreamGuild — streams in Russian

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      • swim
        Apprentice
        • Mar 2021
        • 82

        #18
        Originally posted by tangar
        Glad you like it! If anyone got new info about variants - don't hesitate to post in this topic, I'll update the table
        The Q&A part really helped me I must say haha. I was starting to get very confused with all the names.

        One thing it would be great to see on your table is a column to show the date of last update. That was the one thing I found myself still clicking into each link I was interested in to determine if it was outdated, abandoned, current, etc.

        Thanks for putting in the work for it!

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        • Pete Mack
          Prophet
          • Apr 2007
          • 6883

          #19
          Not merely exhaustive, but exhausting! Kudos!

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          • smbhax
            Swordsman
            • Oct 2021
            • 340

            #20
            Your list describes FAngband as

            "Angband 2.4.Frog-knows"

            But if you look down to the bottom of https://github.com/NickMcConnell/Ang...er/version.hlp in the repository you link to for FAngband, below a description of PC Angband 1.31--PC Angband 1.1 was of course the DOS port of Angband 2.4.Frog-knows--you'll find

            ~~~~~


            FAngband History:
            =================
            David G. Kahane
            with multiple missile hit code by Ethan A. Merritt,
            with deferred feelings code by Shawn A. Collenburg,
            and with quiver code by John L. Spetz.

            Nov 17 1993 FAngband Beta Release 0.90
            First beta version posted to ftp.cis.ksu.edu. See the file
            'fangband.chg' for changes to PC Angband 1.31. This version
            still has a -lot- of very ugly coding that I want to clean
            up before calling it a "real" version.

            Nov 23 1993 FAngband Release 1.00
            First release of source. Changes include: more interesting
            descriptions of items, a small change to the mana/encumbrance
            penalty for mages and gauntlets, some enhancements to monster
            fear, John Spetz's quiver code, wider radius light, and a
            few more items and options. Most of the ugly coding has been
            cleaned up, by the way.

            ~~~~~

            So, this is the variant by David G. Kahane called FAngband; it is not 2.4.Frog-knows.

            FAngband on RogueBasin:


            1994 newsgroup thread with Kahane and players discussing changes for the then-upcoming FAngband 2.0:


            The "news" file included with Angband 2.7.4 credits "PC Angband 1.40, UMoria 5.5, and FAngband" as sources; it seems unlikely he'd have written it that way if by "FAngband" he'd meant to indicate PC Angband 1.0 or 1.31:


            The description for Angband 2.5. (beta) mentions "FAngband, the first variant"--which couldn't mean PC Angband 1.0 or 1.31, because those are in the site's official Angband releases list; also, it mentions that many bug fixes and features for the beta came from "UMoria 5.5, PCAngband 1.3 and FAngband," which is unlikely phrasing if FAngband was a PC Angband version (the "news" file included in the beta's source credits "UMoria 5.5, PC Angband 1.32, and FAngband 1.0"):


            ~~~~
            ~~~~

            (Aside:

            I suppose "PC Angband 1.32" in the beta's "news" file is a typo? The release list in the "VERSION.PC" file in PC Angband 1.4 for instance goes from 1.3 to 1.31 to 1.4--no other 1.3x versions mentioned there; and "PC Angband 1.32," "PCAngband 1.32," and PC-Angband 1.32" return no hits on Google--not as "1.3.2," either.

            (Hm which suggests Google hasn't spidered https://github.com/angband/angband/b...lib/files/news, which has the "PC Angband 1.32" mention. Github's code search doesn't find that, either, when enclosed in quotes--and too many hits without quotes; maybe I'm doing that wrong.))
            Last edited by smbhax; November 23, 2022, 14:10.
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            • tangar
              Veteran
              • Mar 2015
              • 1004

              #21
              Originally posted by smbhax
              So, this is the variant by David G. Kahane called FAngband; it is not 2.4.Frog-knows.
              Thanks a lot! Fixed FAngband. You are very welcome to check and prepare a text of descriptions for other variants too, I'll be happy to put it on the list
              https://tangaria.com - Angband multiplayer variant
              tangaria.com/variants - Angband variants table
              tangar.info - my website ⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽
              youtube.com/GameGlaz — streams in English ⍽ youtube.com/StreamGuild — streams in Russian

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              • Cryomaniac
                Swordsman
                • Jan 2022
                • 283

                #22
                Hengband Touhou Katteban should be renamed to Gensouband in the list to keep it up to date.

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                • smbhax
                  Swordsman
                  • Oct 2021
                  • 340

                  #23
                  Originally posted by tangar
                  Thanks a lot! Fixed FAngband. You are very welcome to check and prepare a text of descriptions for other variants too, I'll be happy to put it on the list
                  I wish I had more for you. Your list pointed me to a couple more variants that came from PC Angband (BAngband and QAngband). = )
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                  • tangar
                    Veteran
                    • Mar 2015
                    • 1004

                    #24
                    Originally posted by Cryomaniac
                    Hengband Touhou Katteban should be renamed to Gensouband in the list to keep it up to date.
                    Done, thanks
                    https://tangaria.com - Angband multiplayer variant
                    tangaria.com/variants - Angband variants table
                    tangar.info - my website ⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽
                    youtube.com/GameGlaz — streams in English ⍽ youtube.com/StreamGuild — streams in Russian

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                    • smbhax
                      Swordsman
                      • Oct 2021
                      • 340

                      #25
                      Might be worth noting that Iso-Angband's author brought it back, briefly



                      as "Yanotavar," ie "Yet ANOTher Angband VARiant."

                      They were also the author ("Hajo" on this forum, "Etinarg" on roguetemple forums, and named as "Hansjörg Malthaner" on roguebasin http://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Iso-Angband) of Iso-Funband and Iso-Unangband -- see here, for instance: http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showpos...01&postcount=1 .
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                      • smbhax
                        Swordsman
                        • Oct 2021
                        • 340

                        #26
                        I don't know if you would prefer it as a home page link over the link currently to the AngbandPlus code repository, but Utumno did get a revival web page circa 2009, which is still up, and hosts what appear to be source code and compiled versions of the original and an updated version by the then-new host:



                        (Both compiled versions die with D3D errors on my Win11 laptop though. 'p')
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                        • tangar
                          Veteran
                          • Mar 2015
                          • 1004

                          #27
                          Thanks, folks! Updated
                          https://tangaria.com - Angband multiplayer variant
                          tangaria.com/variants - Angband variants table
                          tangar.info - my website ⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽⍽
                          youtube.com/GameGlaz — streams in English ⍽ youtube.com/StreamGuild — streams in Russian

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