benson-sound

Recreation of "Benson" sound - sound emitted by onboard computer in Mercenary game series.

The goal of the project is to create a portable replacement of what is available in the MDDClone version of the game, which will then be reused in MDDClone-SDL version

Author: Paul Spark

You can read more about Mercenary here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercenary_(video_game)

You can find more detailed information about the game on a fan page: http://mercenarysite.free.fr/merce.htm

Or play the games using two available ports: http://mercenarysite.free.fr/mddclone.htm

Building

Installing dependencies

Reqires the SDL 1.2 library. Installation instructions:

Ubuntu / Debian / derrivative

sudo apt install cmake libsdl1.2-dev

Mac OSX

brew install cmake sdl

MinGW

Requires to be installed via GUI:

mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain make mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL

Compilation

mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake ..
make
make install # installs locally

Usage

./benson-sound "word1 word2 word3"

A proof, that each of the letters have a fixed and individual tone:

./benson-sound "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuwxyz"; ./benson-sound "zywutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba"

Demo

./benson-sound