MAngband

Hello all, I though it would be quite interesting just to ask what Operating System and Platform everyone runs on.  Just to satisfy my curiosity you understand ;D I use the client mostly on IRIX running on a variety of SGI Hardware, mainly Indy, Indigo2 and Octane. I also have a couple of x86 boxes ...

Yeah, a lot of tar's do support the -z option, but I thought I'd opt for the lowest common denominator. I imagine some SGI people wont have installed the freeware version of tar :P Certainly, if you're willing buy me an Aston Martin  ;D Oooh, I suppose once its posted I should probably have a look a...

Sure, no problem. I can definately give you MIPS3 and MIPS4 compiled binaries for SGI (Obviously the modified source too). I should also be able to provide *BSD for PowerPC... although I'd have to test that  ;) I can probably get Sun SPARC binaries too. I'll email crimson and see if he's interested....

(Whips out the anti-venom)  ;) Ok, so maybe widespread was the wrong word ;) But it does get bundled with every free OS on the planet :) And you're right I've never seen anywhere near 20 people on a server. Our record internally was 9 simultaneous players. I think I actually do agree with you on the...

Just to play devils advocate  ;D The 'ancient' codebase means that I can compile Mangband on the myriad of Unix workstations that I use/look after.  All I need is a C compiler, and maybe the  X libaries if the system has it. I've successfully compiled Mangband on whole heap of Non x86 systems, mainl...

Are you currently running linux at the moment, or did you just choose it as a alternative OS for running a mangband server?

Its just that FreeBSD comes with mangband 0.7.0 as a ready compiled package and running it is as simple as /usr/local/bin/./mangband

Just a thought.