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Welcome to the Angband Live Wiki where you can learn all about the Angband family of roguelike games.

Angband began as a fork of of the earlier game Moria (via a rewrite from pascal to C) and was first released to the public in 1990 as version 2.4.fk. Originally written to be played on a university mainframe it was quickly ported to run on PCs. A community approach to development began and spawned some early variants like PsiAngband. After having passed through the hands of several maintainers, Ben Harrison's 2.8.* series of releases were used as the basis of a large number of variants, notably Zangband.

The variants have histories of their own, some of the most popular at the time of writing being Sil-Q based on the earlier variant Sil, and FrogComposband, a fork of Composband in turn based on Poschengband, itself being able to trace a convoluted ancestry to Zangband.