---
name: "tempest_for_mp3"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "tempest-for-eliza"
version: "1.0.5-3"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/tempest_for_mp3"
---

# tempest\_for\_mp3(1)

play your music with your computer monitor and AM radio

## NAME

tempest\_for\_eliza - play your music with your computer monitor and AM radio

## SYNOPSIS

**tempest\_for\_eliza** *pixelclock x 1000000* *HDisplay* *VDisplay* *HTotal* *VTotal* \* *radio frequency* *play mode* *amplification* *filename*

## DESCRIPTION

This program displays patterns on a computer monitor that can produce musical tones on AM radios tuned to the proper frequency.

## OPTIONS

*pixelclock x 1000000*, *HDisplay*, *VDisplay*, *HTotal*, and *VTotal* all should be the same each time for your monitor. Use the [xvidtune(1)](/xvidtune/1.md) application to determine these values.

As the name suggests, for the pixelclock parameter multiply the result given by [xvidtune(1)](/xvidtune/1.md) by 1000000.

A usual sensible value for *radio frequency* is 10000000, or 10Mhz.

## USAGE

In order to play custom music, it needs to be converted. For this, see /usr/share/doc/tempest-for-eliza/mksong.sh.

## 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.

This manual page was written by Luke Faraone lfaraone@debian.org for the **Debian GNU/Linux** system, but its use elsewhere is encouraged.

## SEE ALSO

[`tempest_for_eliza`(1)](/tempest_for_eliza/1.md), [`xvidtune`(1)](/xvidtune/1.md),

Additional documentation may be found at ⟨http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/⟩\\c .