Schism:Contributions

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[edit] How to help

If you know C, you can submit patches to fix bugs and implement new features. Take a look through the TODO list for ideas, or search the source for messages like "FIXME" and "TODO".
If not, the next best thing is a clear, well-written bug report, preferably with a reproducible test case.
Anybody can help with the documentation, either by adding new pages or keeping the existing ones up-to-date. If you don't get wiki markup, or if your English is not so great, don't worry! Someone can fix it later.
Lurk! Hang around on the message board and/or on IRC. An open-source project is all about its community; if nobody seems to be using the program, there's not much motivation for development.
Monetary donations are accepted. Donating to the developers gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling, and as a byproduct we get a bit of extra money. This allows us to buy anime, new hardware for testing, fund web hosting costs, and bribe the neighbors so they don't call the cops when we have the speakers turned up too loud. PayPal button here.

Schism Tracker is primarily developed by Storlek and Mrs. Brisby, and is based on Impulse Tracker by Jeffrey Lim.
Modplug written by Olivier Lapicque, with additional programming by Markus Fick (spline mixing, fir-resampler) and Adam Goode (endian-ness and char fixes). The version in Schism Tracker was further modified by Storlek and Mrs. Brisby to fix some effects and filters.
Some (small) portions of code have been borrowed from Cheesetracker by Juan Linietsky.
Frag-opt was written by Ville Jokela.
Various Amiga OS fixes by Juha Niemimäki.
The Win32 mixer was written by Gargaj/CNS.
Michael Chen improved the software scaler quite a bit.
ToastyX contributed some other fixes.
Default fonts created with ITF by ZaStaR.
Default palette settings are mostly from Impulse Tracker.
- Industrial was created by Storlek.
- Kawaii was co-designed by Storlek and mml.
- Why Colors? is loosely based on the like-named FT2 palette.
- FX2.0 was supplied by Virt.
- Atlantis is from an ooooold version of IT.
The new Schism Tracker logo was designed by delt.