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Keyboard piano app available...
dds9
I grabbed it from fatdog64. I don't know its source.
I had to add font to package to make it run.
EDIT: I recompiled it so that it doesn't need a font to be added
Instructions are written in window.

Set to square wave for best sound.
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I am unable to download. I logged in to google, but cannot d/l the file, it says "access denied".

I was able to download from anonymous machine. Just click download
button in middle of window.
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It seems to download differently than a SFS file.
There are is a warning message that I don't get when downloading my audacity SFS
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Source and build instructions: http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/source ... 4-1.tar.gz

The actual name of the cutie is just "dds", and "9" was the initial version where I released it to Fatdog - hence "dds9".
I have since updated it to version 11, and it should have been called "dds11" now, but ... but the name kind of "stuck", so it's "dds9 version 11" now

Best played with a gaming keyboard that can handle at least 6 simultaneous keypress (assuming you can press and hold up to 6 keys at the same time). In a standard keyboard, if you press and hold more than 3 keys, sometimes the keypress of the 4th key onwards won't be registered until you released the first 3 keys. But you can have fun even either way.

Sample output with square wave on standard keyboard (live recorded - one-take no editing - pardon the mistake): https://drive.google.com/file/d/134kMEQ ... sp=sharing

When I tried compiling in Easy OS , the binary complained that
dejavu font wasn't available . However when I checked it definitely is installed.
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don570 wrote: Tue Oct 18, 2022 9:33 pm

When I tried compiling in Easy OS , the binary complained that
dejavu font wasn't available . However when I checked it definitely is installed.
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Font location (and size) is defined here:

#define RENDER_FONT "/usr/share/fonts/X11/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf"
#define RENDER_FONT_SIZE 16

Change that to use a different font or use a different location.
It has to be a TTF font and nothing else (not even OTF font).

If you use a different font or size, you may want to make the window bigger (or smaller).

screen = SDL_SetVideoMode( 640, 400, 0, 0 );

Change 640 and 400 to whatever dimensions you like.

Enjoy.

Thanks to James Bond...
changed to

#define RENDER_FONT "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/DejaVuSans.ttf"

Easy stores fonts in different place than fatdog64
so I recompiled . THe pet package is very small so I can post it in the first post.

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