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The Mac Angband binaries page is updated as new mac binaries appear.
These are the old Exile II web pages from my defunct site. They contain some spoilers, a shopper's guide, and a few tips. It hasn't been updated in a while, but that may change if I get the time and motivation. I also split off the Exile and Exile III material on separate pages; right now they have links to reviews, FAQs, Exile related sites, and download sites.
Angband is a fun roguelike game based loosely on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien. It has been compiled for nearly every operating system on the planet, has ten times the depth and complexity of its commercial competitors, and is freeware. However, citing the demands of Real Life,Ben Harrison, the longtime maintainer for Angband, has passed the reins to the capable hands of Robert Ruehlmann. The current code base is stable and extensible, leading to a wide variety of variants. However, it is sometimes difficult to keep up with the changes in the variants, so here is a listing of the latest available Mac Angband binaries.
I used to think that compiling Angband was difficult, and modifying it completely out of the question. But once I learned a few tricks by trial and error, I can usually compile a variant of Angband in an evening. And modifying the source is easy and fun.
Andy Rowland has been compiling Angband variants using Apple's free MPW compiler. To help others wishing to do the same, he has provided an archive with the source code changes required to compile Angband with MPW, with the .old source files for comparison. The archive also contains a modified resource file with a modified SIZE resource to use Steve Linberg's modified main-mac.c file and a few changed sounds.
Bridge is a fascinating and fun card game. It involves planning, calculation, with a fair bit of psychology too. In short, it has everything that makes a game fun. Here are some of my favorite bridge links.
I wrote a short Perl script that calculates the probability of suit splits with a given number of known cards in the unseen hands, based on an algorithm provided by Marvin L. French.
I also wrote a not so short Perl script that converts PBN 1.0 format files to HTML. It now prints comments in the play and auction, and has a few minor fixes. To use this script you need these (or other similar) suit symbol gifs as well as the pbn2html script. Here is a test PBN file (mostly from the PBN Verifier package) and the resulting HTML file. As a more real world test, here is the PBN version of a bulletin from the 1998 Cap Gemini tournament, and the converted HTML file. The hands are printed twice because the hands were printed as a comment before display as a table. The way to avoid this is to not show hands as comments, but to let the script display them normally.
This page was made with Pagespinner, a very nice shareware web page creation program, and maintenance and reorganization has been done using BBEdit Lite, an excellent freeware text editor. I must say that I wasn't aware of just how powerful this program was until I had to update the frightening number of files I created for my Exile II web pages.
As you can probably tell, this is very much a work in progress. As such, I am open to suggestions for additions, improvements, and factual corrections. Please send e-mail to takemoto@thecia.net
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