Mod-music

.mod files was what Amiga used for music. Modules used their own samples as instruments, thereby enabling a sound far nicer and more varied than that of midi. For some interesting reason, a lot of music in this format from old games is way above the music of many of today's games quality-wise. Not sound-quality, but all other sorts of the stuff. A song like Into the Wonderful stays in your mind and grows with every listening. Perhaps it's just my impression, and a wish to be nostalgic, but it seems to me that the average Amiga game music was a step or two above that of the average PC game. Even at times when it should possibly be the other way round, it is still my opinion that the mod-version of the Wing Commander soundtrack sounds better than the fully orchestrated, CD-quality version.

Never heard a mod in your life? There are lots of players for the PC (for example, Winamp has some nice plugins to do the job), as well as old and new mods, floating around on the 'net. Hear for yourself what I mean.

Unsorted top ten Amiga games with great music:

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