🕹️ Zangband

"The seeds of ZAngband lie in an obsolete and long ago vanished PC variant (somewhat misleadingly) dubbed Angband--. The variant was written by a hopeless Angband addict (previously Moria veteran and winner) who got bored with the standard monsters and wanted to introduce some new monsters. Angband-- was based on the PC Angband 1.31 sources, and it was set in Roger Zelazny's 'Amber' universe. Later this individual got a better computer and learned to code, and produced the PC Zangband, and most Angband-- monsters survived into PC ZAngband 1.0. PC Zangband 1.0 was the first PC Angband to introduce (simple, font-based) graphics, which were also used in the graphical PC Angband 1.40. Yet this individual was still not cured of his addiction… his almost as strong addiction to the Civilization style fantasy strategy game 'Master of Magic' inspired him to write a new magic system. The current version of Zangband (2.*) incorporates this magic system, as well as the best features from Angband-- and PC Zangband 1.0. It is based on the Angband 2.8.1 sources (by Ben Harrison), and is therefore portable to other systems (unlike the earlier versions which were for dos-pc's only). Incidentally, this person (me, Topi Ylinen) also thought that the standard Angband monsters were too easy, which led him to introduce such monsters as Death swords, Cyberdemons and Great wyrms of power…"