[HN Gopher] The Mod Archive
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The Mod Archive
Author : turrini
Score : 56 points
Date : 2022-10-20 11:30 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (modarchive.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (modarchive.org)
| pasquinelli wrote:
| for people on android, there's an app for playing chiptunes (that
| i have nothing to do with) called zxtune that integrates with mod
| archive and others. it's interface is a little weird, and it acts
| up sometimes, but for the most part it works, and it seems pretty
| easy on the battery.
| [deleted]
| knoke wrote:
| For iOS users I cannot recommend enough the 4champ mod player
| with radio and total archive access. (But of course you'll just
| download everything by Elwood and listen to that for the rest of
| your lives.) https://apps.apple.com/app/id578311010
| Fellshard wrote:
| This site is formative to me. One of the underrated aspects of
| MOD files is that they're totally transparent - you can learn
| from others' work by examining the same files you use to play the
| music. It's more transparent than basically any other medium out
| there for learning to create music by example.
| robertheadley wrote:
| The website is down. I hope it isn't due to traffic from this
| site. Might be better to use a caching link to link to small
| projects like this.
| DrPhish wrote:
| Since we appear to have taken poor modarchive offline, here's my
| vote for the greatest MOD of all time via an archive.org link :
|
| https://web.archive.org/web/20220912213826/https://modarchiv...
| Minor49er wrote:
| That's a good track, but I'm afraid it doesn't hold a candle to
| the classic Online Pizza:
|
| https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...
|
| This MOD has been stuck in my head for nearly 20 years
| holoduke wrote:
| I didn't know modarchive is down. I used to have many of my
| songs there. Is there any alternative with the same database?
| superdisk wrote:
| I think it's just temporarily down due to the load from this
| post.
| cwillu wrote:
| <lights his hair on fire and puts on his running shoes>
| axus wrote:
| There's an online player at https://www.wothke.ch/webxmp/ if
| the Wayback machine won't play the XM you download there.
|
| Way back when I was learning HTML, it was really exciting to
| play S3M/XM files from embedded ModPlugin:
| https://openmpt.org/legacy_software
| butz wrote:
| Got startled by loud music. I think your notification should
| mention that after clicking music will start immediately and
| headphone users should be aware. Good tunes, nonetheless.
| pan69 wrote:
| That is indeed a very good MOD. Allthough, its not a classic 4
| channel MOD. This extended MOD has a crazy amount of channels.
| It belongs to this PC demo by Complex:
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcVN7-AxLQA
| 0x0 wrote:
| Why not link the better final version?
| https://web.archive.org/web/20210615125241/https://modarchiv...
| allenu wrote:
| I remember one of the first MODs I heard in the early '90s was
| "Smart E's - Sesame's Treet" (i.e. the Sesame Street song remixed
| as a dance tune). I blew me away back then that that such a high
| fidelity sound could come from such a small file.
|
| Eventually, like a lot of other people at the time, I learned how
| to use a tracker to write my own tunes. It was a great way to
| learn about writing music since I didn't play any instruments.
| elFarto wrote:
| Funny coincidence, I was just watching a video on the history of
| trackers yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw
| Daunk wrote:
| I've listened to tracker music since the 80's and I still do it
| basically every day. Whenever I have a bad day or feel the lack
| of motivation; tracker music always helps. And to be honest, it's
| probably what's getting me through my 20 year long depression.
|
| There are so many good tracker songs I could recommend, but I'll
| instead list a couple of my favourite artists: Elwood,
| Radix/Rymdlego/Mosaik, Fearofdark, Necros, Purple Motion,
| Lizardking, Malmen, Beek, Dubmood, Skaven, Virt and so many many
| more!
| Minor49er wrote:
| Have you listened to the netlabel 8bitpeoples? You would
| probably enjoy it if you haven't. Virt has a few releases on
| there
|
| http://www.8bitpeoples.com/
| usea wrote:
| My formative years all have tracked music as their soundtrack,
| and I still listen to them regularly. Many of the people whose
| music I enjoyed back then are still making new music as
| recently as this week, including several you mentioned. Many
| artists were accessible on IRC, and the community was at least
| as good as the music. There were lots of opportunities to form
| lifelong friendships with great people.
| knoke wrote:
| Also for me tracker music has an incredible and unique
| emotional power. My guess is that it was mostly written by
| teenagers and you can just feel that energy and naivety. Elwood
| tracks make me happy and happy-sad in a way nothing else can.
| It's incredibly comforting and at the same time energising
| music for me.
| empressplay wrote:
| For more MOD files you can also check out Amiga Music
| Preservation @ http://amp.dascene.net
| blaerk wrote:
| Since it's down you can get your mod fix from
| https://modland.ziphoid.com/pub/modules/ (features some good ol'
| directory browsing though)
|
| I've had best listening results with
| https://github.com/libxmp/xmp-cli/
|
| A friend of mine wrote an excellent player which uses libxmp and
| a bunch of other libs to play a bunch of old formats, it's rather
| good: https://github.com/intealls/modp fair warning though,
| there's no pre built releases but comes with a handy makefile :)
| voletrunk wrote:
| One of the finest chiptunes I've ever heard is L.F.F. by 4mat:
| https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...
|
| It was the music for this Lemmings cracktro on the Amiga, I swear
| I spent more time replaying the tune than playing the game!
| https://youtu.be/mi9M8h6JrQU
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