Cody Boone Ferguson
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The sections have been modified a fair amount. The Entries menu has been extended to have: Fixing entries, Updating author info, Thanks for the help. The first two were moved from FAQ and the last one from About. The rationale for these, in order: entries and authors have to do with entries and most of the help involves entries. It also has to do with website but in 'about' it does not seem the right place, unless maybe it is renamed to 'Credits' or something (I am not suggesting this one way or the other). This one is debatable but that was the rationale. The Status menu has been extended to have: Markdown guidelines and Security policy. The rationale is that the markdown guidelines are part of contest guidelines and the security policy is about the status of the entries and how if there are any security problems they will not be addressed (instead of about the IOCCC). The FAQ was extended to have: Compiling entries, Running entries, How to help. The reason to not have compiling and running entries under Entries is because this is 'how to' and also the menu was too long. How to help seems like a good idea under FAQ too (was in About). About was extended to have the new 'about.html' page (from about.md). This is a rare case where a new file is useful as it fits under 'About'. The menu now is: Home page, About the IOCCC, The Judges, Contact us. I was pondering the 'About [the IOCCC]' at the top and also naming it 'About us' but it seemed like a link to index.html was necessary and as for 'about us' it seemed less clear as to whether it was about the judges or the contest itself. The FAQ has been updated slightly for this. After further inspection the bin/index.html and the inc/index.html links were removed from the about section. With these changes, renaming an item or slight reordering notwithstanding, I believe that #2006 is probably in good shape.
To build:
This entry requires SDL. See the FAQ on "SDL1 and SDL2" for information on how to install it if you haven't already.
If you have SDL installed:
make
To use:
./jetro
Judges' remarks:
We have seen entries with SDL graphics in the past, now it's time for SDL sound. This entry can even be run on a computer without a sound card with an appropriate setting of an environment variable - for that you'll have to dig into the SDL documentation.
Can you figure out how the notes are encoded and program a different melody?
Author's remarks:
To compile the entry you need SDL library, which is used only for audio
output. To run the entry make sure you have audio output available. The entry
plays 22KHz 16 bit mono music with a small softsynth. When the music plays,
you can stop the application by pressing enter, as the code will just wait
with one call to getchar() before it quits.