This is a step-by-step guide to build and install the official Nuked-SC55 version on the Ubuntu 24.04 linux distro. This guide should work on all linux distros based on Ubuntu 24.04 including Linux Mint 22.

1) Installing dependencies:

Open the terminal and install the following dependencies.

1sudo apt install gcc
2sudo apt install g++
3sudo apt install gcc-multilib
4sudo apt install g++-multilib
5sudo apt install cmake
6sudo apt install libsdl2-dev
7sudo apt install git

2) Clone the source:

Choose a directory to clone the source to. Open the directory in the terminal and type:

1git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-SC55.git

3) Build the source code and install:

Open the terminal from the cloned Nuked-SC55 source directory

1mkdir build
2cd build
3cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
4cmake --build .
5sudo cmake --install .

Cmake will issue a bunch of warnings, but should complete the build.

4) ROMS:

Copy the SC55 ROM's to the /usr/local/share/nuked-sc55 directory. You may need to use sudo privileges to do it.

5) Getting Started:

Open the terminal from anywhere and type nuked-sc55 and press the enter key to open the program.

6) General Use:

To use nuked-sc55 with dosbox, open the the dosbox.conf file, change the "mididevice=" setting to "mididevice=alsa", and change the "midiconfig=" setting to "midiconfig=128:0". When setting up your game, choose the General MIDI option.

All midi programs will need to be set to port 128:0 to play MIDI files through Nuked-SC55.