angband - is a graphical dungeon adventure game in the vein of rogue

angband [options] [-- suboptions]

This manual page explains the Debian package angband . Angband is a single-player, graphical dungeon adventure game using textual characters to represent the walls and floors of a dungeon and the inhabitants therein, in the vein of rogue, hack, nethack, and moria. Angband 2.8.3 is a stable official release incorporating all the changes and improvements added since the last official release ( Angband 2.7.8).

This version of Angband has been compiled with both ncurses and the X Windowing system. and hence can be played on a virtual console as well as under X. In the latter case, the game pulls up multiple windows.

-h

Print out a usage message.

-n

Start a new character

-f

Request fiddle mode (no high score entry)

-w

Request wizard mode (no high score entry)

-v

Request sound mode

-g

Request graphics mode

-o

Request original keyset

-r

Request rogue-like keyset

-s<num>

Show <num> high scores

-u<who>

Use your <who> savefile

-m<sys>

Force 'main-<sys>.c' usage

-d<lib>=<path>

Define a 'lib' dir sub-path. Valid values of lib are help info user bone save data apex xtra edit file

To start with, you can just say angband -uTest, and that creates a save file with the file name /var/games/angband/save/<UID>Test. The best place to get help is the program itself; help is reached by the command ? and presents a menu of choices.

Program options can be set using the = command. To see what the various options mean, access the List of Options help menu with the ? command.

nethack(6).

This manual page was written Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.