In 2019, a Kickstarter campaign was run to raise funds to pay Mark McCurry to overhaul the audio subsystem in the curses port of Frotz. I've tried off and on since 2013 to do this, but there was always a problem with mixing two audio streams and excessive CPU usage. Mark is much better at this kind of programming and is well-known for working on some very good audio-related projects. However, he would not do the work for free. Therefore I started a Kickstarter campaign to pay him. The audio subsystem now reads and processes audio data through libsndfile, libmodplug, libsamplerate, libvorbis, and a few other libraries brought in as dependencies. Output is throgh the libao library, which automatically takes care of the messiness of figuring out exactly how to talk to the audio hardware. A total of $1,078.00 was raised in 30 days. After taxes, fees, backed-out pledges were subtracted, the total sum was $878.60. The following people contributed $100: Dan Sanderson Daniel Sharpe Justin de Vesine Simon Martin The following people contributed $25: Alan De Smet Anders Svensson anomalogue Brett Witty Carl Muckenhoupt Carolyn VanEseltine Edward Marczak Jason C. Penney Jason Scott Mark Davis Max Silbiger Michael Piotrowski Rick Reynolds SciaticNerd Scott Hardwick Thomas Insel Zellyn Hunter