Schism Tracker

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Schism Tracker is a free reimplementation of Impulse Tracker, a program used to create high quality music without the requirements of specialized, expensive equipment, and with a unique "finger feel" that is difficult to replicate in-part. The player is based on the Modplug engine, with a number of changes to improve IT playback.

Where Impulse Tracker was limited to i386-based systems running MS-DOS, Schism Tracker runs on almost any platform that SDL supports, and has been successfully built on Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, AmigaOS, and BeOS. Most development is done on x86 (ia32, amd64/ia32e) and ppc (both the ppc32 and ppc64 flavors). Schism will most likely build on any architecture supported by GCC4 (e.g. alpha, m68k, arm, etc.) but it will probably not be as well-optimized on many systems.

[edit] Download

Mrsbrisby's packages are built from the CVS GIT snapshot, so the date updated for the snapshot applies for the other packages as well.

Source tar.gz (CVS GIT snapshot)
Updated 10 Oct 2008 – ChangeLog

Linux autopackage (ignore the 0.5, it's the current version... honest!)
Provided by mrsbrisby, build notes; install by running bash schism-0.5.x86.package

Windows build
Provided by mrsbrisby, build notes

Mac OS X build (universal PPC+i686)
Provided by mrsbrisby, build notes

For the adventurous, you can also download using git: 

git clone git://nimh.org/schism.git

or if you're behind a firewall: 

git clone http://nimh.org/schism.git

At least for the time being, the Schism Tracker history is mirrored by a CVS repository which you can access using: 

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@schismtracker.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/schismtracker login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@schismtracker.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/schismtracker co -P schism2

[edit] Requirements

For merely running the program, the above packages should be all you need. If you are building from source, you will need the following:

  • GCC ≥ 3.x. This will most likely not change, as GCC is freely available on nearly all platforms. Compilation might still work with 2.x; however, this is entirely untested and unsupported, and no effort at all will go into backward compatibility.
  • LibSDL. Development is done with the latest version, but Schism Tracker will probably build with versions as low as 1.2. (No guarantees, though. If you have a really old version and it doesn't build, upgrade.)

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

Main article: Schism:Links
Retrieved from "http://eval.sovietrussia.org/wiki/Schism_Tracker"
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