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 a highly modified version of the Modplug engine, with a number of bugfixes and 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 for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, AmigaOS, BeOS, and even the Wii. 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.

Download

Storlek's packages are built from the source snapshot, so the date updated for the snapshot applies for the other packages as well.

Note: apparently the 20100202 build is broken in a couple of ways; if you're using it perhaps you should re-download the January version, or if you're feeling adventurous, build your own from hg.

Mercurial snapshot (possibly unstable)
Straight from the repository

Source tar.bz2
Updated 01 January 2010

Windows build
Built by Storlek

Linux i686 build
Built by Storlek

FreeBSD port
Port by ehaupt

Mac OS X universal build
Built by Storlek; should work on i686/PPC ≥10.3.9

Wii build
Built by Storlek

Pandora Build
Built by Stuckie from 18th June 2010 Repository.

Development

The bleeding-edge current source can be downloaded with Mercurial: 

hg clone http://schismtracker.org/hg/ schismtracker

Those interested in development can also point a web browser at the repository to browse the source tree, change logs, etc.

You might also want to peruse the build notes for Linux or Mac OS X.

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 4.x or Clang. GCC 3.x might build, or not; it hasn't been tested in ages. Other compilers will likely not work since Schism Tracker uses many GCC extensions.
  • LibSDL. Development is done with the latest stable version, but Schism Tracker will probably build with versions as low as 1.2.0. (No guarantees, though. If you have a really old version and it doesn't build, upgrade.)
  • Recent versions of autoconf and automake.

See also


External links

Main article: Schism:Links

From IT (Impulse Tracker) users: VERY, VERY,VERY Thank You, nameless HappyMaker!!! Thank You million Times!!! THANK YOU, been waiting a long, long time for something like this. My goodness how can I send you money? - JM from Canada.

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