This is a new port of Angband 2.7 to the Macintosh and the PowerMac.
This particular release is based on Angband 2.7.8.
This version should function equally well, if not equally fast, on any Macintosh running System 4 or later, provided it has enough memory available. The application is set to use 1500 kilobytes of memory, but would probably work in as little as 1200 kb. However, it has not been tested under those conditions yet, so I cannot give any guarantees that it will work.
If you come across any unauthorized bugs, please report them to me, and I will check them out as soon as I can.
I can be reached through the InterNet at the following address:
mmhazewi@cs.ruu.nl
Suggestions for improvements of this port can be sent to the same address.
Some other notes:
- The game will scan through your fonts looking for monospaced fonts, and make those fonts available in the Font menu. If you have a lot of fonts, this can take a little time.
- The font screening process is not perfect, so some unusual fonts might slip through.
- If you like to be able to distinguish your zeros from your O's (ohs), and your lowercase l's (els) from your uppercase i's (eyes), I would recommend picking up a font called 'Profont' from the standard Macintosh sites. It works quite well.
- If you have a savefile which does not have the normal savefile filetype ('SAVE'), you will not be able to open it from the Finder, and the Open╔ dialog will not show them.
If you hold down the Option key when pulling down the menu, you will get a different dialog (Open All╔), which will allow you to choose any file at all.
This can be used to open savefiles imported from other computer systems.
- The main play window cannot be resized by the user directly. The other windows can be freely resized.
- If you try to close the main play window while a game is in progress, the game will be closed, and, since this version of Angband is not re-entrant, the application will quit. The game will warn you if you have not saved it just before this, and give you an opportunity to do so.
- Use the Font and Size menus to choose a font and size for each window that you like. These settings will be saved in the preferences file, and used the next time the game is started.
If you don't like the standard settings in the Size menu, you can use the Larger and Smaller items to set up any size between 3 and 127 points, inclusive.
