TEMPEST_FOR_ELIZA(1)

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version 1.0.5 · 3 versions
, in debian trixie, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ TEMPEST_FOR_ELIZA ✨

okay bestie, so this is the manual for tempest_for_eliza, section 1 of the manual pages. yes it's giving hacker-girlboss energy and yes it is exactly as iconic as it sounds 💅

🌈 NAME 🌈

tempest_for_eliza — play songs with your computer monitor and AM radio 🎀📻

like, the monitor is the instrument and the radio is the speaker. no cap.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

tempest_for_eliza pixelclock x 1000000 HDisplay VDisplay HTotal radio
frequency music file

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so what this program does is display patterns on a computer monitor that can produce musical tones on AM radios that are tuned to the proper frequency. that's it. that's the whole thing. your screen is a radio station now, literally. ✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • pixelclock x 1000000, HDisplay, VDisplay, and HTotal — these four should all be the same every single time for your monitor, no switching up bestie. use the xvidtune(1) application to figure out these values. 🫶
  • pixelclock — as the name is giving, for this parameter you multiply the result that xvidtune(1) gives you by 1000000. math is math. 💅
  • radio frequency — a usual sensible value for this one is 10000000, which is 10Mhz. lowkey the standard, highkey the move. ⭐
  • exiting — to exit the application, just click the window it produces. that's the whole escape hatch. click it. bye. 👑

🌸 EXAMPLES 🌸

$ tempest_for_eliza 119000000 1680 1050 1840 10000000
/usr/share/doc/tempest-for-eliza/songs/forelise

what this does is start TFE on a monitor with a pixelclock of 119, a 1680x1050 resolution, and a VDisplay of 1840, so it can be accessed in the 10Mhz band. slay 🎶

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the original idea for tempest_for_eliza was taken from Pekka Riikonen, who wrote the original tempest-AM-0.9 application. tempest_for_eliza was written by Erik Thiele. absolute legends, both of them. 🙌

this manual page was written by Luke Faraone lfaraone@debian.org for the Debian GNU/Linux system, but its use elsewhere is encouraged. take it everywhere bestie, it's for the people 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

additional documentation may be found at http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/ — go read it, iykyk 📚

ok that's the whole page bestie, every flag, every number, every vibe, all intact 💖 don't come for me if you skipped the xvidtune(1) step, that's on you 😭

tempest_for_eliza manual — April 18, 2010 🌈 stay iconic, go make your monitor sing 🎀✨

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