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  The Pit of Angband, as it is called, is one of those games, so predominent in the early days of computers, where you wander around a dungeon, set on various 'levels', fighting a whole host of enemies, with the final intention of defeating some 'Big Boss', who lurks in the deeper dungeons.
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  This one has been converted to work in the RISC OS desktop, though the main window (others contain a command history, and information on the creatures you may from time to time encounter) is still controlled solely via keyboard input, and makes no attempt to use fany graphics, employing instead the ASCII character set to represent various types of nasty (there are about fifty 'types' (humanoid, dragon etc.) of creature, and at least two hundred breeds of the things (black dragon, blue dragon, baby blue dragon etc.).
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  What it lacks in graphics it makes up for in gameplay. This is a game I have spent may hours on, and had moderate sucess with (though never been able to penetrate to the deeper levels). The built in cheat mode (CTRL-W) allows you to become as powerful as you like, and explore the deeper levels, killing all in your path, and, most satisfyingly, the final opponent - Morgoth.
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Author: Chris Knight<br>
Status: Freeware<br>
Availability: Most PD libraries and the Datafile's <a href="../Commercial/PDCD5">PD-CD 5</a>.<br>
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