October 21, 2019, 06:01
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Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2019
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Poschengband 7.1.1?
I'm coming back to angband variants after not having played in a couple years (after poschengband stopped being updated), but when I looked for the most recent update of poschengband, I found this site, which has Poschengband 7.1.1 uploaded on October 2 2019. I haven't seen any discussion of it though, so I wanted to make sure it was real and not a virus. Is that the creator's actual site?
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October 21, 2019, 07:40
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Swordsman
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 389
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Curious, no idea where that stands in the hierarchy. No idea if that is 'chris' back again.
These days Composband and Frogcomposband spun off out of the old Poschangband seem the most popular. |
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October 21, 2019, 08:55
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Adept
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Posts: 224
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While I don't know if that's the site (I don't have the URL saved from way back when, so I don't have anything to compare it to), the layout is awful similar to what I remember of it.
Also, the old posts (the ones several years) at least look legit.
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October 21, 2019, 09:35
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Canberra, Australia
Age: 56
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Yep, that's it
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October 21, 2019, 09:37
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Rookie
Join Date: Oct 2019
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From comparing the source archive to the previous PCB release, if it's malware or a virus, someone put in an awful lot of work to make it look like a legitimate update. Pretty major changes to the world map and game progression, more Tolkien and less Zelazny, source code restructuring, a monk rework, etc.
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October 21, 2019, 12:48
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Adept
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: GA, USA
Age: 37
Posts: 240
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Quite a surprise---always nice to see such manifest.
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October 21, 2019, 13:04
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Knight
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 919
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Oh wow awesome stuff.
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October 21, 2019, 13:43
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Prophet
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Adelaide, Australia
Posts: 2,576
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Well I played it for about 10 minutes without my computer blowing up, so presumably safe. Also in true angband maintainer style he hasn't updated the help files yet.
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October 21, 2019, 14:00
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Knight
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 919
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Up on angband live. Played for about the same 10 mins as wobbly, things have changed but I don't have impressions yet (except that wilderness terrain generation is much easier on the eye).
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October 21, 2019, 19:50
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Toronto, Canada
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