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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.
 
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.
  
Information here can vary from general [[Category:game_concepts|game concepts]], explanations of different settings and options, advice for players and spoilers on game content.
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Information here can vary from general [[category:game_concepts|game concepts]], explanations of different settings and options, advice for players and spoilers on game content.

Revision as of 20:36, 3 February 2020

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, such as Oangband, Kangband and 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.

Information here can vary from general, explanations of different settings and options, advice for players and spoilers on game content.