diff --git a/2011/vik/.gitignore b/2011/vik/.gitignore
index 8af17a3e7..51774e443 100644
--- a/2011/vik/.gitignore
+++ b/2011/vik/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #
 # sort with: sort -d -u
 audio_file.raw
+
 *.dSYM
 indent
 indent.c
@@ -9,3 +10,4 @@ prog.orig
 vik
 vik.alt
 vik.orig
+*.wav
diff --git a/2011/vik/README.md b/2011/vik/README.md
index 0181f0b21..8c5465b9e 100644
--- a/2011/vik/README.md
+++ b/2011/vik/README.md
@@ -25,21 +25,35 @@ For more detailed information see [2011 vik in bugs.md](/bugs.md#2011-vik).
 ./vik file.mod > audio_file.raw
 ```
 
+If you have `mplayer(1)`:
 
-## Try:
 
 ```sh
-./vik randowan.mod | mplayer -demuxer rawaudio -
-./vik mad_world.mod | mplayer -demuxer rawaudio -
+./vik file.mod | mplayer -demuxer rawaudio -
 ```
 
-Alternatively, you can use:
+Alternatively, you can convert the file to a WAV:
 
 ```sh
 ./vik file.mod > file.raw; ./raw2wav file.raw > file.wav
 ```
 
-It is possible to download a number of music module files from [The Mod
+and then play `file.wav` with a program that can play WAV files.
+
+
+## Try:
+
+```sh
+./try.sh
+```
+
+The script checks that you have `mplayer(1)` installed and if it is it will pipe
+`vik` to `mplayer`. In this case it will also use `raw2wav` to convert the file
+to a WAV file. If `mplayer(1)` cannot be found it will just use `raw2wav`. This
+way even if one has an `mplayer(1)` that fails or is for some reason not what is
+expected they can at least play the WAV file manually.
+
+It is also possible to download a number of music module files from [The Mod
 Archive](http://modarchive.org).
 
 
@@ -54,7 +68,6 @@ Assuming that `make` is similar enough try:
 
 ```sh
 make alt
-
 ```
 
 
diff --git a/2011/vik/try.sh b/2011/vik/try.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..35aa1f098
--- /dev/null
+++ b/2011/vik/try.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# try.sh - demonstrate IOCCC winner 2011/vik
+#
+
+# make sure CC is set so that when we do make CC="$CC" it isn't empty. Doing it
+# this way allows us to have the user specify a different compiler in an easy
+# way.
+if [[ -z "$CC" ]]; then
+    CC="cc"
+fi
+
+# in this case we won't fail if we can't compile the code because we can still
+# run the supplementary program.
+make CC="$CC" all >/dev/null
+
+# clear screen after compilation so that only the entry is shown
+clear
+
+# fine mplayer
+MPLAYER="$(type -P mplayer)"
+
+raw2wav()
+{
+    if [[ "$#" != 2 ]]; then
+	echo "$0: raw2wav() expects two args, got: $#" 1>&2
+	return
+    fi
+
+    read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./vik $1 > $2: "
+    echo 1>&2
+    ./vik "$1" > "$2"
+    echo 1>&2
+
+    read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./raw2wav $1 > $2: "
+    echo 1>&2
+    ./raw2wav "$1" > "$2"
+    echo 1>&2
+    echo "Converted $1 to $2." 1>&2
+    echo 1>&2
+}
+
+if [[ -n "$MPLAYER" && -f "$MPLAYER" && -x "$MPLAYER" ]]; then
+    # If we have mplayer we'll try playing the sounds directly. If however it
+    # fails for some reason we will run the alternate procedure, creating WAV
+    # files.
+    read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./vik randowan.mod | $MPLAYER -demuxer rawaudio -: "
+    echo 1>&2
+    ./vik randowan.mod | mplayer -demuxer rawaudio -
+    raw2wav randowan.mod randowan.wav
+
+    read -r -n 1 -p "Press any key to run: ./vik mad_world.mod | mplayer -demuxer rawaudio -: "
+    echo 1>&2
+    ./vik mad_world.mod | mplayer -demuxer rawaudio -
+    raw2wav mad_world.mod mad_world.wav
+    echo 1>&2
+else
+    raw2wav randowan.mod randowan.wav
+    [[ -f randowan.wav ]] && echo "Now try playing randowan.wav with a program that can play WAV files." 1>&2
+
+    raw2wav mad_world.mod mad_world.wav
+    [[ -f mad_world.wav ]] && echo "Now try playing mad_world.wav with a program that can play WAV files." 1>&2
+fi
diff --git a/thanks-for-help.md b/thanks-for-help.md
index c7f603d72..035241a8b 100644
--- a/thanks-for-help.md
+++ b/thanks-for-help.md
@@ -3669,7 +3669,9 @@ controls, width and height.
 
 ## <a name="2011_vik"></a>[2011/vik](/2011/vik/vik.c) ([README.md](/2011/vik/README.md]))
 
-[Cody](#cody) added an [alternate version](/2011/vik/README.md#alternate-code) for Windows
+[Cody](#cody) added the [try.sh](/2011/vik/try.sh) script.
+
+Cody also added an [alternate version](/2011/vik/README.md#alternate-code) for Windows
 based on the author's comments (along with looking up the function for the right
 header files). To build try the alt rule of the Makefile.