Hengband Application for macOS

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Binaries

Based on Hengband's 3.0.0 Development Version

• English version; 3.0.1 Beta22
• Japanese version; 3.0.1 Beta22
• Prereleases based on the most recent changes incorporated from upstream can be found at https://github.com/backwardsEric/hengband/releases.

Based on Hengband's Development Version from 2019

• English version; 2.2.1.7i
• Japanese version; 2.2.1.7i

Based on Hengband's Last Stable Version

• English version; 1.6.2e
• Japanese version; 1.6.2e

Instructions

I have put together a version of the rogue-like game, Hengband, for computers running macOS 10.8 (the versions based on Hengband 3.0.0 require 10.15) or later. To use the English version, download one of Hengband-3.0.1-Beta22-English.dmg, Hengband-2.2.1.7i-English.dmg, or Hengband-1.6.2e-English.dmg. The first is based on Hengband's current development branch. The second is based on Hengband's development branch from 2019. The last is based on Hengband's last stable release. Double click on the downloaded file to open the disk image, and then drag the hengband application to where you want to store it. Double clicking on the application will run it. Since the application has not been signed, you'll likely have to make an exception for it to use the application. Follow this link for Apple's instructions on how to do that. In short, one way to grant an exception for versions of macOS prior to macOS 15 Sequoia is

1. Control click (i.e. click while holding the control button down) on the application in the Finder.
2. Select "Open" in the menu that comes up.
3. That will bring up a confirmation dialog about allowing the application to open on the system.
4. If your account does not have administrator privileges, there'll be an additional dialog asking you to authenticate as an administrator to apply the exception to the security settings.

A Japanese version is also available. The installation instructions are essentially the same, but you'll need to download Hengband-3.0.1-Beta22-Japanese.dmg, Hengband-2.2.1.7i-Japanese.dmg, or Hengband-1.6.2e-Japanese.dmg.

The versions based on the preliminary releases of Hengband 3.0.0 use Hengband's current development branch as a basis and add support for a macOS interface using Cocoa.

The versions based on Hengband 2.2.1.7 started with master branch source code as of April 10th, 2019 and added these changes:

• Support for the macOS interface using Cocoa
• Correction for how rivers are added in dungeons which nominally do not allow any of the river types
• Some corrections for using unidentified items from the pack
• A correction for a division by zero exception when choosing monsters for arena battles
• Changed handling of KWD_* macros to avoid garbled characters in the spell list using the Japanese version
• The addition of the monster list update option
• Some changes to the English versions of some game messages
• Fixed missing gettimeofday() prototype to avoid compiler error with recent versions of Xcode
• Incorporation of Hengband's changes for non-Windows builds

The versions based on Hengband 1.6.2 started with the source code tagged as 1.6.2 and added the following changes

• Support for the macOS interface including porting of PHO's February 2020 patch from the master branch
• Use stdint.h to configure the fixed-size integer types (a change made on November 18, 2012 in the master branch)
• Extended internal buffer to avoid overflow in English entry about the player's death (already made in master branch)
• Avoid compiler warnings about 32-bit integers passed to long integer format specifiers by adding casts, changing the format specifier, or changing the type of a local variable
• Avoid 32-bit integers passed to long integer format specifiers for msg_format() and format() by adding casts
• Replace instances of fprintf(fd, s) with fputs(s, fd) as has been done on the master branch
• Update the inventory window after eating a wand
• A curses compatibility change made on August 12, 2011 in the master branch
• Changes for compatibility with modern versions of autoconf and automake

Acknowledgements

None of this would have been possible without the Hengband source code and code, especially for the macOS interface and tile set configuration, from poschengband and Angband. All of the hard work was done by the contributors to those projects.