Horizontally spinning rat - now on your desktop!

NEW - Rewritten from scratch in C, for maximum ratting performance.
The old bash script version is still available on the old_bash branch.

A terminal port of the horizontally spinning rat meme, complete with soundtrack and spin counter.

rat

Usage

Usage: rat [OPTIONS]
Options:
  -r, --rainbow     Enable rainbow mode
  -m, --ratmark     Enable ratmark
                    depends - lolcat
  -u, --unlock      Enable framerate unlock
  -d, --debug       Enable debug mode
  -h, --help        Display this help menu

Compiling

Horizontally Spinning Rat should support all POSIX-compliant systems, including Linux. Windows support is achieved through the MSYS compatibility layer.
Audio support is only available on Linux and Windows.
Rainbow mode support requires a lolcat implementation installled.

Linux:

make linux - without audio
make linux_audio - with audio
The output binary is bin/rat

Windows:

Install MSYS and GCC - guide here.
make win - without audio
make win_audio - with audio
The output binary is bin/rat.exe

Packages

A package is also available on the AUR

thinkingsand / rat