Linux distribution chatter never used to be a problem, but you're right that it has become one, so maybe a second channel to contain it would be appropriate. I'll put this on my todo list for the next round of maintenance.

Needs some patching, but it's up

Seems to be a windows-only variant. That doesn't mean it can't be wrangled to work on UNIX again, but it does mean it'll take a bit longer.

@Chundarr Hey just saw this.. I'll take a look at it this week

'speak friend and enter'

it's the answer to the riddle on the gates of moria which gandalf answers

On 13 January 3019 the Fellowship of the Ring entered Moria through the Doors,[5] but initially Gandalf could not find out the password to open them. Merry Brandybuck unknowingly gave Gandalf the answer by asking, "What does it mean by speak, friend, and enter?" When Gandalf realized that the correct translation was "Say friend and enter" he sprang up, laughed, and said "Mellon", which means "friend" in Sindarin, and the Doors opened. Shortly thereafter, the Watcher in the Water attacked the Fellowship and shut the Doors behind them.[1] Afterwards Khazad-dûm was resettled by Dwarves; it is unknown if the Doors of Durin were ever repaired.

okay so turns out the easiest way to attach the file was on discord if you check there.

@Nick I sent you the savefile in question. The self-downloading thing has been broken since versioning was added, I'll try and look into whatever else can be done.

Edited the title, bump this again if/when it happens in future

cleared.

Maybe make a thread for crashes?

Yeah it looks like what you've done here is to do for (frog?)composband what I did for whichever nightly version of angband I did my JS script for, the problem comes when all angbands have (sometimes) very similar but not quite the same formats, but DM has been working on it, I am looking for the time to do it. I have gotten a new PC and have been very distracted by the pretty 3D tank battles it lets me fight and have just been catching up on making new job applications.

I have chosen Eclipse to use as an IDE and have imported some angband-related projects which I also need to catch up on as I learn my way around Eclipse. Have also ditched windows and linux is so mind-bogglingly simple it's difficult to conceptualise my workflow with all the same clunky slow-moving parts I had on windows.