bliplay is a plaintext-based chiptune sound player. See the interactive player at https://play.blipkit.audio for examples and syntax description. Some example files also are located in examples.
- Install SDL
For simplyfing the audio output on a wide range of systems the program uses SDL (https://www.libsdl.org). If not already, you have to install it to be able to run the program.
- Checkout BlipKit
BlipKit is the core library which generates the sound. It is added as a submodule. To fetch its source, use the following command when cloning the bliplay repository:
git clone --recursive https://github.com/detomon/bliplay.gitor afterwards with:
git submodule update --init- Building
First execute autogen.sh in the base directory to generate the build system:
./autogen.shNext execute configure in the base directory:
./configureUse the --without-sdl option if you don't want to link against SDL.
./configure --without-sdlThen execute make to build the program in the bliplay directory:
makeYou can then run it from the bliplay subdirectory, or install it on your system to run from anywhere.
sudo make install- Playing files
Some example files are located in examples. Use the following command to play them:
bliplay/bliplay examples/hyperion-star-racer.blipFor Linux users: If you associate bliplay with .blip files, then the StopBlipAudio.sh script, that you'll find in the example directory, will help you mute your blip tracks in a hurry.
This program is distributed under the MIT license. See LICENSE.