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Angband
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n. , /angband/ Like nethack , moria , and rogue , one of the large freely
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distributed Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide
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range of machines and operating systems. The name is from Tolkien's Pits of
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Angband (compare elder days , elvish ). Has been described as Moria on
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steroids ; but, unlike Moria, many aspects of the game are customizable.
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This leads many hackers and would-be hackers into fooling with these instead
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of doing productive work. There are many Angband variants, of which the most
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notorious is probably the rather whimsical Zangband. In this game, when a
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key that does not correspond to a command is pressed, the game will display
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Type ? for help 50% of the time. The other 50% of the time, random error
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messages including An error has occurred because an error of type 42 has
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occurred and Windows 95 uninstalled successfully will be displayed. Zangband
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also allows the player to kill Santa Claus (who has some really good stuff,
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but also has a lot of friends), Bull Gates, and Barney the Dinosaur (but be
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watchful; Barney has a nasty case of halitosis). There is an official
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angband home page at http://thangorodrim.angband.org/ and a zangband one at
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http://www.zangband.org/. See also Random Number God.
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