imoria vs. angand

[t.p.s...@gmail.com]

Got interested in angband/moria again for the first time in a long
time (oh no ....fell off the wagon again) thanks to Rogue making its
first appearance on the iphone. Of course, the first thing I did when
I saw Rogue was look for Angband or Moria. This, in turn, reminded me
of my unfullfilled quest since leaving U. Washington in 1991 to re-
connect with *Imoria*.

I am trying to determine whether Imoria was really as great as I
remember and what the key differences are with Angand? The main
ingredients in Imoria that were missing from Angband that I can
remember

---water levels
---expanded town
---trading post (multi-user feature)
---Imoria seemed much, much harder (I knew of cases where people cried
when a high-level character died)

Would be curious to get opinions from others who have played both.

By the way, it seems there is now a web site
http://www.angelfire.com/games3/imoria/icdownload.html
where a good soul, Steve Kertes , has ported a version of Imoria that
presumably can be compiled under linux
(not successfully by me, so far .....)