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+  TinyMOD
+  Written by Tammo "kb" Hinrichs in 2007
+  This source code is hereby placed into the public domain. Use, distribute,
+  modify, misappropriate and generally abuse it as you wish. Giving credits
+  would be nice of course.
+
+  This player includes an Amiga Paula chip "emulation" that faithfully recreates
+  how it sounds when a sample is resampled using a master clock of 3.5 MHz. Yes,
+  rendering at this rate and downsampling to the usual 48KHz takes quite a bit
+  of CPU. Feel free to replace this part with some conventional mixing routines
+  if authenticity isn't your goal and you really need Protracker MOD support
+  for any other reason...
+
+  The code should be pretty portable, all OS/platform dependent stuff is
+  at the top. Code for testing is at the bottom.
+
+  You'll need some kind of sound output that calls back the player providing
+  it a stereo interleaved single float buffer to write into (0dB=1.0).
+
+  Changelog:
+
+  2024-03-09:
+  * modifications by Jason Bou-Samra
+  * changes to main() routine to make executable from Linux command line interface
+  * modularised paula and modplayer classes into seperate files
+  * added sound output using port audio
+  * sprinkled comments throughout source code, and general source formatting
+  * created makefile
+
+  2007-12-07:
+  * fixed 40x and 4x0 vibrato effects (jogeir - tiny tunes)
+  * fixed pattern loop (olof gustafsson - pinball illusions)
+  * fixed fine volslide down (olof gustafsson - pinball illusions)
+  * included some external header files
+  * cleanups
+
+  2007-12-06: first "release". Note to self: Don't post stuff on pouet.net when drunk.
+
+//  TO COMPILE: g++ -o tinymod `pkg-config --libs alsa` tinymod.cpp -lm -L . -l:libportaudio.a