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make
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```
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There is an alternate version that should work for Windows. See [alternate
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code](#alternate-code) below.
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### Bugs and (Mis)features:
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./vik file.mod > audio_file.raw
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```
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An alternate version for Windows is available. See the Alternate code section
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below.
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The author stated that the program will crash if no argument is passed tot he
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program though we note that your computer might also [halt and catch
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fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing)) :-)
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This is supposed to happen. As is written in the
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[The Jargon File](http://catb.org/jargon/html/F/feature.html):
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```
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That's not a bug, that's a feature.
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```
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### Try:
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Alternatively, you can use:
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```sh
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./vik file.mod > file.raw; ./raw2wav file.raw > file.wav\
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./vik file.mod > file.raw; ./raw2wav file.raw > file.wav
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```
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It is possible to download a number of Mod files from [The Mod
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It is possible to download a number of music module files from [The Mod
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Archive](http://modarchive.org).
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```
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### Alternate use:
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Use `vik.alt` as you would `vik` above.
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initialized 32MB array. Can you tell what that partial
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initialization for?
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Does it take your system a long time to compile? You may want to do try:
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Does it take your system a long time to compile? You may want to do:
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```sh
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cc -S vik.c
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```
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and to examine the resulting assembly file vik.s. On some platforms
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and examine the resulting assembly file `vik.s`. On some platforms
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the assembly file is about 128MB in size!
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NOTE: The [randowan.mod](randowan.mod) and [mad_world.mod](mad_world.mod) files were
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when the samples are to be played, a list of what patterns to play in what
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order, and a number of effects.
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### Features
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This program converts MOD files created with the standard trackers for
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Due to size constraints tremolo and vibrato is not supported. Also, to
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avoid infinite long songs, the position jump feature is ignored.
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### Songs
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With his permission, the package includes two songs composed by Henrik
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### Usage
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### Convert MOD file to raw 44.1kHz stereo audio file
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#### Convert MOD file to raw 44.1kHz stereo audio file
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```sh
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./vik mad_world.mod > audio_file.raw
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```
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### Listen to the MOD file (streaming to mplayer)
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#### Listen to the MOD file (streaming to mplayer)
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```sh
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./vik randowan.mod | mplayer -demuxer rawaudio -
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```
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(Don't forget the last `-` as it makes mplayer read from stdin.)
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(Don't forget the last `-` as it makes mplayer read from `stdin`.)
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### Obfuscation
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are conditional and the program uses the `?:` operator (sigh) mainly to save
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space, but also to leverage the comma operator and precedence more efficiently.
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[magic]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(programming)#Variants
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### Portability
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The program is portable to most platforms. The only system dependency is
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that the program relies on writing binary data to stdout.
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that the program relies on writing binary data to `stdout`.
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Microsoft compilers adds a carriage return to newlines, and to compile
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the program with this platform, the following line can be added after
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_setmode(_fileno(stdout), 0x8000);
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```
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NOTE: this is what the [alternate version](#alternate-code) is for.
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### Limitations
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The program only runs when a valid MOD file is passed as argument. If
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