furnace/README.md

Furnace

did i say prepare?

this is a work-in-progress chip music player (currently) for the .dmf format.

features

• supports Sega Genesis, Master System, Game Boy and PC Engine (for now, with more systems coming soon)
• clean-room design (zero reverse-engineered code and zero decompilation; using official DMF specs, guesswork and ABX tests only)
• bug/quirk implementation for increased playback accuracy
• accurate emulation cores (Nuked, MAME, SameBoy and Mednafen PCE)
• open-source. GPLv2.

dependencies

• CMake
• SDL2
• zlib
• JACK (optional)

SDL2 and zlib are included as submodules for Windows and macOS.

compilation

your typical CMake project. clone (including submodules) and:

Windows using MSVC

from the developer tools command prompt:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
msbuild ALL_BUILD.vcxproj

macOS and Linux

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

usage

./furnace <file>

this will play a file (must be in .dmf format).