mdpiper/angband

The best game ever.

angband

The best game ever.

Home is still at rephial.org, and I'm still on the ladder. Also, I once found the One Ring.

installation

I have been installing angband through Homebrew, but version 4.2.5 didn't work. Instead, I built it from source, taking cues from the brew formula for angband 4.2.4.

Downloaded the angband 4.2.4 tarball from GitHub and unpacked it.

cd ~/scratch
wget https://github.com/angband/angband/releases/download/4.2.5/Angband-4.2.4.tar.gz
tar -xf Angband-4.2.5.tar.gz
cd Angband-4.2.4

The brew formula recommends building against the macOS ncurses, located at /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX14.sdk/usr, but it failed to compile.

Instead, I built against the Homebrew ncurses:

export NCURSES_DIR=/usr/local/opt/ncurses
export NCURSES_CONFIG=$NCURSES_DIR/bin/ncurses6-config
export LDFLAGS="-L$NCURSES_DIR/lib"
export CPPFLAGS="-I$NCURSES_DIR/include"

From the Angband-4.2.4 directory, configure, make, and install:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make
make install

Link the angband executable into the ~/bin directory (which is in the path):

cd ~/bin && ln -s $HOME/local/games/angband

It doesn't work quite as well as the brew version; e.g., I have to select the NumLock key every time I start angband, but it works well otherwise.

usage

The user directory is

~/.angband/Angband

I also have scripts, angband_backup and angband_restore, to cache and load my current game file.

iTerm2 and xterm

angband doesn't render correctly in iTerm2. Use an xterm instead:

xterm -fa Monaco:size=18 -rv &

See available fonts:

fc-list | cut -f2 -d: | sort -u

Or use Terminal, which works fine.