How to compile very old Angband versions?

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Originally Posted by lea2501

However, when i start the game with

./src/angband -uUser -mgcu -- -n1

it fails to start showing a message saying

Savefile does not exist. -more-

Any idea of where i need to create it?

The problem likely isn't with the savefile or the savefile directory but with getting stuck in an infinite loop in the random number generator (at least that's what happens when I follow your steps on a x86_64 system). Doing this (so compiling doesn't assume that long is a 32-bit type) for configuration seems to solve the infinite loop problem:

env CFLAGS=-DL64 ./configure --with-no-install
make clean
make

(the "make clean" step there is just to ensure that it's not using the previously compiled object files).