aylet 0.5 - a player for Spectrum `.ay' music files.
Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Russell Marks.
Z80 emulation copyright (C) 1994 Ian Collier.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
Roadmap
The COPYING file contains a copy of the GPL described above.
NEWS and ChangeLog describe differences between versions.
Description
aylet plays music files in the `.ay' format. These files are essentially wrappers around bits of Z80 code which play music on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128's sound hardware - either the beeper, or (eponymously) the AY-3-8912 sound chip. Files using the Amstrad CPC ports are also supported.
`aylet' has a curses-based interface, and `xaylet' has an X-based one.
One source of `.ay' files playable with aylet/xaylet is "Project AY" on the World of Spectrum website:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/
Installation
You'll need an ANSI C compiler. `gcc' is fine - so should most other compilers be, these days.
If you're running Linux, the Makefile should be ok; if not, you might want to check it. After doing that (or not :-)), you should do `make' (or `make aylet' if you don't have GTK+ installed), then (as root) `make install'.
Once it's installed, don't forget to read the man page for further documentation.
Contacting me
You can email me at rus@svgalib.org.
Share and enjoy!
-Rus.