Very nice to hear! I couldn't see any in noob dungeons I've visited for now but loving the variety and feeling of exploration already.

I have a small "bug" with subwindows: when loading my save, text is slightly cropped. Resizing the window fixes it, but the problem reappears when saving and reloading. Not sure if I badly configured something?

Just slain Smeagol and the Recall says that he drops 1 exceptional object but I only saw a lot of gold on the floor… Are those drops chance not 100%, even though it's an unique'? (but if so, why did I get the information in the recall?)

It was in a cramped corridor, so is it possible that the gold took the place of the exceptional object and wiped it out of the floor?

Smeagol has the DROP_90 flag, which for uniques means dropping 1 object. (For non-uniques it means they have a 90% chance of dropping the object, which is still listed as 1 object in monster recall.)

Smeagol also has the ONLY_ITEM flag, which means the object is guaranteed to not be gold. (Smeagol does drop gold, but that's because of a different mechanic.)

This was a very quick look, but from what I saw he should always drop an object. Did you steal an object from him, or was he a pet of yours at some point?

Screwing around in terminal now. Hopefully I'll figure out compiling without wrecking my computer >.<

Anyone know how to compile this for MacOS? I read the readme.txt but copying and pasting the commands gives a lot of "command not found" messages. I think I did download 20gb of dev tools when it prompted me to, but still not able to compile. *** several command and permissions later *** I did manage to get it to install (lots of lines of code went flying down the screen). But when I type frogcomposband nothing happens and I don't see a new folder or new files after the make install. :confused: I enter /src directory and type frogcomposband but says command not found. I double click on frogcomposband from the finder window in the /src folder and this happens:

Thanks I see, that's weird…

No… I could've missed it by mistake, though I have Detect Objects and crawl very slowly (hunted Robin Hood around the entire floor to see if he could drop a sling for my Rogue :p)

Oh speaking of which, what type of special bonus for slings do Rogue get (saw that from the manual)?
What bonus/penalty do Shadow-Fairies get in light/darkness? Because until now I kept casting Illumination/having a brass lantern, without visible penalties?
Also do slings and ranged weapons get a penalty when fired at range 1?

To answer your other question from before, no, the gold would not displace or replace the object even in a cramped area; although the gold might generate on the same square as the object, potentially obscuring it on the screen. But in that case, even if you weren't checking the object list, you would notice the object upon walking over it.

Think it's just a CL-dependent accuracy boost.
None, they have a special stealth mechanic but it's unrelated to illumination. You're probably thinking of their racial vulnerability to the element light; i.e. they take extra damage from light-based attacks.

No.

FrogComposband should not be launched from the /src folder, but from whichever folder is above /src; although I don't think that's the only problem here. What happens if you configure it with ./configure --with-no-install?

Edit, woops. Now I understand what you asked:

In Cygwin, I get that ncursesw script missing configure message too, which for Frog disables compiling the Curses front end. With no front ends enabled, as in your case, the game won't work (I think your first problem is launching the game with the correct syntax though--see next post).

Cygwin doesn't have an ncurses 5 package, just 6--so I worked around the ncursesw5-config thing by going into my /cygwin/bin/ directory, copying the ncurses6-config and ncursesw6-config files, and changing "6" to "5" in the names of the copied files. ; ) To my surprise, that hack actually worked, and I was able to compile and run the game.

Angband vanilla has kind of worked around this problem by changing the ncursesw config error to just a warning, so it doesn't disable the Curses front end. But maybe Frog actually uses a wide character set, unlike Vanilla? Although hm no wait Frog seems to look fine on angband.live in Droid Sans Mono, which is not a (very) wide font (alas!), so probably not.

Not sure why Vanilla and Frog haven't updated their config settings to detect ncurses/w 6 as well as 5, though. Ncurses 6 has been out since 2015, and is source-compatible with 5 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/announce-6.0.html--but if the user only has 6, and the config script is hard-coded to check only for 5's filenames or whatever, then this sort of silly problem will occur.

UPDATE 1/11: backwardsEric has the elegant solution for this curses detection problem in the next page or two of the thread:

(The latter worked for me on Cygwin.)

Not sure how things work on Mac, but in Cygwin, running an exe with just its name doesn't work; you have to use "./[file name]"; also, as Sideways mentioned, you would tend to do that outside the /src folder (or even outside the game folder entirely). For instance, in Cygwin I have the game in a folder named "frogcomposband" in my home/[username]/ folder, so after starting Cygwin, from my username folder, to launch the game I type

^ You have the "./" on the front (that was what looked missing in what you wrote--but again, not sure exactly what syntax may be required on Mac).

(And if you want subwindows--this is covered down near the bottom of the readme--you can enter more parameters, like mine with 3 subwindows is

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