Amiga Mods

[Reg]

Evening all.

This one is probably for all the old skool collectors here and the first name that springs to mind is @niallquinn / @Gary or @Geddy.

Playing with the MiSTer FPGA and looking at some of the demos it reminded me how good the mods were.  In fact the MiSTer is annoying me that much due to the quality of what it does is I regret all the things I’ve brought such as RetroFreak and other emulations.

Anyway after watching a few demos I had a vague feeling there used to be a great and complete collection of mod rips for the Amiga.

Does anyone recall such a thing or am I just thinking of an old TOSEC or something like that ?

Does anybody have any inkling of what I am going on about ?

Thank you.

[johnparker007]

I use to sequence back in the day (Noisetracker, protracker, Octamed), was good times   If you sail the high seas there's this:

Amiga Mods Anthology - 4cds
A massive 4 CDROM-Set, 18,000+ files (Protracker, S3M, XM, Amiga Synth...) Many, many, artist represented (with their OWN permission, info-files, pics and previously unreleased mods!) from the origins of the scene (Amiga days) on up to early 1996 featuring most of the best PC-Multichannel musicians. This CD is readable under all major platforms (MS-DOS, Win, Mac-os, UNIX, Amiga-DOS...)

Hope that is of use -  would recommend most stuff Romeo Knight did, one of my fave scene musicians from back then  

Edit: also found this collection of torrents, covering a 29gb base collection plus update torrents:

http://tracker.modarchive.org/

Edited April 5, 2021 by johnparker007

[pbb]

Fairlight also known as FLT are still going strong, used to crack C64 and Amiga amongst other systems, always had a cool demo running before the trainer.

Edit - They also have an active Facebook group where they reminisce the 'Good old days' haha 

Edited April 5, 2021 by pbb

[eagle64]

3 hours ago, johnparker007 said:

I use to sequence back in the day (Noisetracker, protracker, Octamed), was good times   If you sail the high seas there's this:

Amiga Mods Anthology - 4cds
A massive 4 CDROM-Set, 18,000+ files (Protracker, S3M, XM, Amiga Synth...) Many, many, artist represented (with their OWN permission, info-files, pics and previously unreleased mods!) from the origins of the scene (Amiga days) on up to early 1996 featuring most of the best PC-Multichannel musicians. This CD is readable under all major platforms (MS-DOS, Win, Mac-os, UNIX, Amiga-DOS...)

Hope that is of use -  would recommend most stuff Romeo Knight did, one of my fave scene musicians from back then  

Edit: also found this collection of torrents, covering a 29gb base collection plus update torrents:

http://tracker.modarchive.org/

https://demonicsweaters.com/2017/04/18000-amiga-mods-on-4-free-isos-amiga-mod-anthology-download/

 

CD 1 https://archive.org/details/cdrom-amiga-mods-anthology-1

CD 2 https://archive.org/details/cdrom-amiga-mods-anthology-2

CD 3 https://archive.org/details/cdrom-amiga-mods-anthology-3

CD 4 https://archive.org/details/cdrom-amiga-mods-anthology-4

[Reg]

@johnparker007 and @eagle64, thank you both very much.

I am not 100% sure this is what I was thinking - as I believe I was remembering something on a much smaller scale - but this is excellent.

Now to do nothing bar music listening...

[niallquinn]

There's Amiga mods and there's the rest, Amiga was mainly 4 channel (unless you used Oktalyser).

All of these other so called amiga mods, aren't.

Eg., That might be called "amiga mods anthology", but it isn't.  S3M, XM etc, were PC mods ripped from PC demos.

There are Amiga only mod collections, like UnExoticA collection.

Which is -

1999 archives
738 composers
648 development teams
303 game publishers
86 demo groups
Over 3240 megabytes of classic Amiga tunes.

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/UnExoticA

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If you want them, I'll rar them up and upload them to Mega.

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Other places of note -

http://amp.dascene.net/

^ massive.

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Modland

^ has over 400,000 mods, in over 300 formats, so you can get them more obscure mod routines from musicians who used their own routines on the amiga, instread of a tracker type mod.

 

 

Edited April 6, 2021 by niallquinn

[Reg]

@niallquinn if it’s not too much trouble, I would love this collection as well. :)

Yes please and thank you very much.

[niallquinn]

Sorry @Regforgot about this.

I've uploaded the UnExotica collection which has games and demos, games ones is pretty complete, but the demos side is pretty poor, anyway here it is -

https://mega.nz/file/CYolXKBK#DVpdh2ZqmMeWTB2KnxH0gibDIukVcMvB2yF7ulBjXJc

I'll leave it up for about a week incase anyone else wants it.

Currently doing a site rip for the demo side of modules.pl, I'll upload them when I've got them all.   Doing a Wget script which only downloads one zip at a time, so this will take a day or two.

[Reg]

20 minutes ago, niallquinn said:

Sorry @Regforgot about this.

I've uploaded the UnExotica collection which has games and demos, games ones is pretty complete, but the demos side is pretty poor, anyway here it is -

https://mega.nz/file/CYolXKBK#DVpdh2ZqmMeWTB2KnxH0gibDIukVcMvB2yF7ulBjXJc

I'll leave it up for about a week incase anyone else wants it.

Currently doing a site rip for the demo side of modules.pl, I'll upload them when I've got them all.   Doing a Wget script which only downloads one zip at a time, so this will take a day or two.

You diamond - many thanks for this mate - this is excellent - I am grabbing them right now.

[niallquinn]

modules.pl site rip.

https://mega.nz/file/CUYw3JIY#PTLzRFMYW04MJy4IJBQf_trvrrg9zdm9uO-g0iiZXGM

 

 

[nails]

To think once I wrote a program to convert USA 60hz to UK 50hz. In practice it would stretch the American games to fill the whole screen, rather than having that all to frequent black bar across the bottom.

can`t remember a thing now, literally threw away my collection about 10 years ago - what a plonker!

 

[nails]

think its about time i dipped my toes into the amiga world again, any recommendations to the best emulator?

 

[niallquinn]

Winaue for emulation.

Or if you fancy going down the FPGA hardware route, MIST, MISTER, or any of it's clones.

[niallquinn]

16 minutes ago, nails said:

To think once I wrote a program to convert USA 60hz to UK 50hz. In practice it would stretch the American games to fill the whole screen, rather than having that all to frequent black bar across the bottom.

can`t remember a thing now, literally threw away my collection about 10 years ago - what a plonker!

 

Yep, me to, it was one line of 68k.  move.w #0,$dff1dc to knock it to 60hz, or #20 to knock it back to 50hz.

 

[nails]

your memory is better than mine!

i downloaded amiga forever anda copy of breathless (just to take me back to the late 80`s) and couldnt even figure out how to run it.

 

how times have changed.

[Reg]

9 hours ago, niallquinn said:

modules.pl site rip.

https://mega.nz/file/CUYw3JIY#PTLzRFMYW04MJy4IJBQf_trvrrg9zdm9uO-g0iiZXGM

 

 

Brilliant - thank you very much NQ.

Just grabbing that now.

Much apprichated.

[Reg]

6 hours ago, nails said:

your memory is better than mine!

i downloaded amiga forever anda copy of breathless (just to take me back to the late 80`s) and couldnt even figure out how to run it.

 

how times have changed.

Now everything is done for us... ...grab a MiSTer and everything will soon come flooding back.

[TTX]

Thanks for sharing all these @johnparker007 @eagle64 @niallquinn, takes me right back to the old college days, lol!

Edited April 12, 2021 by TTX

[Reg]

...so for my next dumb question as memory fades over the years.

Last night I built a new install hard drive image for the MiSTer Amiga core.  That' is all running absolutely fine...

...what is the best player / tracker to use to play the mod files on effectively an actual Amiga ?

What I am looking for is something that is simply visually appealing to look at.  I don't want to be editing the mods, I simply want to play them - I have memories of ones that had the channel bars on the screen in graphics, but wondering if that was on the Atari ST with something else.

Sorry for the questions questions questions, it's been a long time.

Last night I was configuring the system using S:startup-sequence and U:user-startup, all the things that somehow I retained in the back of my mind.  But the problem I have remembering is the software titles.

[Reg]

Well I didn't find what I was thinking of in my mind - but by god, this will do...

 

[niallquinn]

Don't think it's the same as Eagle posted, as it's only amiga mods, no s3m, xm etc.  All in author directories, and more importantly in group names.

ie go to Dexion and you'll get Future Freak, or Ackerlight and you get Freds output etc, Silents, Scoopex, LSD, Fairlight, Kefrens, DOC, Northstar etc etc.  It's a proper scene release by MCSTEam.

https://mega.nz/file/idJ2UB7S#h8M7lWORRg2qg4BnC_Rl4Z1BeMqUNxfU2PvTgpL9_Sg

 

 

 

 

Edited August 4, 2021 by niallquinn

[Reg]

On 04/08/2021 at 16:01, niallquinn said:

Don't think it's the same as Eagle posted, as it's only amiga mods, no s3m, xm etc.  All in author directories, and more importantly in group names.

ie go to Dexion and you'll get Future Freak, or Ackerlight and you get Freds output etc, Silents, Scoopex, LSD, Fairlight, Kefrens, DOC, Northstar etc etc.  It's a proper scene release by MCSTEam.

https://mega.nz/file/idJ2UB7S#h8M7lWORRg2qg4BnC_Rl4Z1BeMqUNxfU2PvTgpL9_Sg

 

 

 

 

Thank you very much - grabbing now.

[kutjebef]

I have a youtube channel full of amiga mods and cracktros 

 

Edited August 6, 2021 by kutjebef

[azaleak]

Just saw this ancient topic, sorry for the necropost but, as previously mentioned, my thoughts immediately went to UnExotica too. Triggered some great memories of someone playing Jesus on Es at the local computer club, which is included as part of the demos section.

Always used to wonder how many cracking group musicians were moonlighting as commercial game composers.