[Announce] Cthangband 5.0.0 Released

[Avenger]

Ah, alright. It will be challenging to overcome the muscle memory of using shift, but at least I have a solution.

I wonder if ctrl or alt + numbers will work as macros. Have to give it a try.

It's also interesting to learn about the limitations of the console. As someone who's trying to get back into coding(and I never got very far with it in the first place) with C#, I expect I'll have the pleasure of learning to deal with those in my own programs.

Thanks for the feedback.

[debo]

Have you tried building on anything except windows? I tried building GCU-only with makefile.org using clang (OS X) and I'm getting curses crankiness in main-gcu.c.

I can figure this out on my own, but if you've done this already once and just haven't migrated the changes to main-gcu.c or something, I'd rather not reinvent this wheel

Specifically, the error is this:

gcc -Wall -O1 -pipe -g -D"USE_GCU"   -c -o main-gcu.o main-gcu.c
main-gcu.c:443:15: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _win_st'
                mvcur(curscr->_cury, curscr->_curx, LINES - 1, 0);
                      ~~~~~~^
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk/usr/include/curses.h:322:16: note: forward declaration of
      'struct _win_st'
typedef struct _win_st WINDOW;
               ^
main-gcu.c:514:14: error: incomplete definition of type 'struct _win_st'
        mvcur(curscr->_cury, curscr->_curx, LINES - 1, 0);
              ~~~~~~^
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.10.sdk/usr/include/curses.h:322:16: note: forward declaration of
      'struct _win_st'
typedef struct _win_st WINDOW;
               ^
2 errors generated.

I know I've worked around this in other ancient variants before, I just didn't have a chance to dig too much yet. (I tried building against both curses and ncurses, with USE_NCURSES set as required.)

I'm hoping to get something up and running so we can run it for a comp. I can always try WINEing if I run out of patience here.

[Dean Anderson]

Sorry, I've no experience at all compiling Angband on any system other than Windows or DOS.

To be honest, without looking in the source code I couldn't even tell you what type of computer or operating system uses "main-GCU"...

My "main-WCN" console code shouldn't have broken any other port. It's pretty self-contained and the only places where I needed to modify other code for it I made sure I wrapped my modifications in "#ifdef WCN" preprocessor commands, so it shouldn't affect any other compilation.

The only thing that might trip you up is that I added a new flag to config.h that you can set if you are on a system that only allows a single Term - and if it is set then it removes the "Window Options" from the options screen because they don't make sense on a single-term port.

[debo]

Originally Posted by Dean Anderson

Sorry, I've no experience at all compiling Angband on any system other than Windows or DOS.

To be honest, without looking in the source code I couldn't even tell you what type of computer or operating system uses "main-GCU"...

My "main-WCN" console code shouldn't have broken any other port. It's pretty self-contained and the only places where I needed to modify other code for it I made sure I wrapped my modifications in "#ifdef WCN" preprocessor commands, so it shouldn't affect any other compilation.

The only thing that might trip you up is that I added a new flag to config.h that you can set if you are on a system that only allows a single Term - and if it is set then it removes the "Window Options" from the options screen because they don't make sense on a single-term port.

It's cool, once I figure it out I'll post the patch here or something.

[wobbly]

Stupid question time. Is the Cth- Cthulu band or something else? Will probably download & try out when the comp starts.

[Dean Anderson]

Yes it is.

The Lovecraftian theme is rather loose and it obviously contains lots of non-Lovecraftian elements, but it's set in the Dreamlands and the big bosses are Nyarlathotep and Azathoth.

[debo]

Hi,

What the heck is a:

a) Broo
b) Great-One

I checked the help but didn't see anything

Edit: I might also take a look at Poschengband's autoroller speed, because this old-school Zangband autoroller is ridiculous

[jevansau]

Hi,

Enjoying this so far, although after V3.5.1 the UI seems a bit painful.

One question I have is - is there a way to save and exit?

[debo]

Originally Posted by jevansau

Hi,

Enjoying this so far, although after V3.5.1 the UI seems a bit painful.

One question I have is - is there a way to save and exit?

Same as other bands, ctrl-x.

[Dean Anderson]

Originally Posted by debo

Hi,

What the heck is a:

a) Broo
b) Great-One

I checked the help but didn't see anything

Broo are creatures from Greg Stafford's Glorantha setting (used in tabletop RPGs, board games, books, and at least one computer game). They're filthy disease-ridden goat-headed humanoids who worship chaos.

The various chaos patrons are taken from Glorantha too, as is the concept of Chaos Features.

Great Ones are from Lovecraft's Dreamlands. Basically they're the "gods" of the Dreamlands, although as gods go they're not very powerful at all. The Great One race assumes that you're the offspring of one of these "gods" - they're known to mate with humankind.