Schism Tracker

From SDWiki

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 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.

Download

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

Mercurial snapshot (possibly unstable)
Straight from the repository

Source tar.bz2
Updated 17 August 2009

Windows build
Built by Storlek

Linux i686 build
Built by Storlek

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

Development

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

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

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. This will most likely not change, as GCC is freely available on nearly all platforms. 3.x versions might build, or not; it hasn't been tested in ages.
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.