Over the holiday period I’ve spent some time playing with my old towered Amiga A1200, one thing I was after was a good selection of MOD files
My criteria was:
- Some quality control - I don’t need every module ever created
- Suitable for use on the Amiga - no zip files within zip files. Icons would be a bonus
- Sensible directory structure / file naming. Ideally grouped by musician and correctly named.
Here are the best that I’ve found:
Mod Anthology by Gryzor
A 4 cd collection from 1996.
It’s 25 years-old but one of the most comprehensive & easy-to use curated list. You can either extract the MODs directory or copy everything to an Amiga hard disk, assign the CDs, and then you can browse it multiple ways: there are playlists, Amiga Guides that open Delitracker, a built-in search etc.
https://archive.org/details/cdrom-amiga-mods-anthology-1 https://archive.org/details/cdrom-amiga-mods-anthology-2 https://archive.org/details/cdrom-amiga-mods-anthology-3 https://archive.org/details/cdrom-amiga-mods-anthology-4
Lemon Amiga collection
Contains mods which are of good quality only, and separated into genres. Big collection of Demo and Game music, Acid, House and Techno.
https://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14863
The amigamega.com Mods archive
See the bottom of this page - http://www.amigamega.com/music.html
Contains .mp3s as well as .mods, but there are still over 2.5GB of nicely sorted .mods
Honourable mentions
Modarchive - https://modarchive.org/ a vast collection of mods (~50GB) - I did download these but found the quantity a bit overwhelming and the directory structure not to my liking (.mods are individually zipped too). Available to download as torrents - an initial torrent and yearly updates.
Modland https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/Modland - another massive collection available by FTP