Hengband Application for macOS

Binaries | English screen shot | Japanese screen shot | Feedback | Source code | 3.0.0 Changes | 2.2.1.7 Changes | 1.6.2 Changes

Changes

1. July 15, 2024. 3.0.1 Beta17 incorporates all of the changes in Hengband's preliminary 3.0.0 versions up to 3.0.1Beta17. You can find Hengband's notes, in Japanese, on what has changed at https://hengband.github.io/history.html. The changes that are specific to the Mac interface or this fork are:
   • Adapt to upstream changes to angband_fgets().
   • Include a binary with native support for arm64 and x86_64 in the release: the 3.0.1 Beta6 release mistakenly only included native support for x86_64.
   • This release was built on macOS 12.7.5. There are no changes to the minimum required version of macOS (still 10.15).
2. January 22, 2024. 3.0.1 Beta6 incorporates all of the changes in Hengband's preliminary 3.0.0 versions up to 3.0.1Beta6. You can find Hengband's notes, in Japanese, on what has changed at https://hengband.github.io/history.html. The changes that are specific to the Mac interface or this fork are:
   • In the readme, update the minimum OS version needed for compiling.
   • Link to THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt in the about dialog.
   • An upstream change avoids the game from exiting during startup on versions of macOS 14 as the game processes MonsterRaceDefinitions.txt.
   • Work around which std::span constructors are available with clang 14.
   • Fall back to AC_CHECK_LIB if PKG_CHECK_MODULES does not find libcurl.
   • Port over Vanilla Angband's file_open_hook so double clicking on save files generated by this version works. Resolves https://github.com/backwardsEric/hengband/issues/20.
   • Adapt to upstream's changes to the subwindow flags.
   • Install lib/file/books into the application bundle.
   • Avoid deprecation warnings for targeting macOS 10.15.
   • Adapt to upstream's changes to path_build() and savefile.
   • This release was built on macOS 12.7.2. There are no changes to the minimum required version of macOS (still 10.15).
3. May 4, 2023. 3.0.0 Alpha81 incorporates all of the changes in Hengband's preliminary 3.0.0 versions up to 3.0.0Alpha81. You can find Hengband's notes, in Japanese, on what has changed at https://hengband.github.io/history.html. The changes that are specific to the Mac interface or this fork are:
   • For the Mac frontend, implement the option for background music like the Window frontend has. As part of that, rearranges how all sounds are handled. The volume of incidental sounds that aren't the system alert sound can be configured. The use of the system alert sound will be turned off when incidental sounds are turned off.
   • For the Mac frontend, disable sending commands from the command menu and changing the tile set or wide tile mode when in an in-game menu.
   • For the Mac frontend, better center the splash screen.
   • For the Mac frontend, change some Japanese labels in the menus. Resolves https://github.com/backwardsEric/hengband/issues/30.
   • For the Mac frontend, cover F17 to F19 in pref-mac.prf. Resolves https://github.com/backwardsEric/hengband/issues/25.
   • For the Mac front end, add paranoia about a big cursor extending beyond a terminal's bounds.
   • Fix handling of the PRIVATE_USER_PATH case in create_needed_dirs().
   • This release now requires macOS 10.15 or later rather than 10.13 or later. It was built on macOS 12.6.5.
4. September 19, 2022. 3.0.0 Alpha67 incorporates all of the changes in Hengband's preliminary 3.0.0 versions up to 3.0.0Alpha67. You can find Hengband's notes, in Japanese, on what has changed at https://hengband.github.io/history.html. The Mac interface is essentially that of the 2.2.1.7g or 2.2.1.7h releases with adaptations to work with the 3.0.0 code base. It does use a different directory, ~/Documents/Hengband-3.0.0, for storing save files, character dumps and other game data. It also requires a more recent version of macOS, 10.13. The executable was compiled on macOS 12.5.1.
5. February 7, 2022. 3.0.0 Alpha52 incorporates all of the changes in Hengband's preliminary 3.0.0 versions up to 3.0.0Alpha52. The Mac interface is essentially that of the 2.2.1.7g release with adaptations to work with the 3.0.0 code base. It does use a different directory, ~/Documents/Hengband-3.0.0, than 2.2.1.7g for storing save files, character dumps, and other game data. It also requires a more recent version of macOS, 10.13. The executable was compiled on macOS 11.6.2.