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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Angband</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="and-there-was-much-rejoicing.html" title="and there was much rejoicing"/><link rel="next" href="angle-brackets.html" title="angle brackets"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Angband</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="and-there-was-much-rejoicing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="angle-brackets.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Angband"/><dt xmlns="" id="Angband"><b>Angband</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/ang´band/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Like <a href="../N/nethack.html"><i class="glossterm">nethack</i></a>, <a href="../M/moria.html"><i class="glossterm">moria</i></a>,
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and <a href="../R/rogue.html"><i class="glossterm">rogue</i></a>, one of the large freely distributed
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Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of
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machines and operating systems. The name is from Tolkien's Pits of Angband
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(compare <a href="../E/elder-days.html"><i class="glossterm">elder days</i></a>, <a href="../E/elvish.html"><i class="glossterm">elvish</i></a>).
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Has been described as “<span class="quote">Moria on steroids</span>”; but, unlike Moria,
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many aspects of the game are customizable. This leads many hackers and
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would-be hackers into fooling with these instead of doing productive work.
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There are many Angband variants, of which the most notorious is probably
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the rather whimsical Zangband. In this game, when a key that does not
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correspond to a command is pressed, the game will display “<span class="quote">Type ? for
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help</span>” 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, random error
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messages including “<span class="quote">An error has occurred because an error of type 42
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has occurred</span>” and “<span class="quote">Windows 95 uninstalled successfully</span>”
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will be displayed. Zangband also allows the player to kill Santa Claus
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(who has some really good stuff, but also has a lot of friends),
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“<span class="quote">Bull Gates</span>”, and Barney the Dinosaur (but be watchful; Barney
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has a nasty case of halitosis). There is an official angband home page at
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<a href="http://thangorodrim.angband.org/" target="_top">http://thangorodrim.angband.org/</a>
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and a zangband one at <a href="http://www.zangband.org/" target="_top">http://www.zangband.org/</a>. See also
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<a href="../R/Random-Number-God.html"><i class="glossterm">Random Number God</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="and-there-was-much-rejoicing.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../A.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="angle-brackets.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">and there was much rejoicing </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> angle brackets</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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