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
The Lemon Amiga Modules collection
This contains mods which are of good quality only, and separated into genres. It’s a big collection of Demo and Game music, Acid, House and Techno.
https://www.lemonamiga.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14863
It’s currently at Version 3 - the filename when downloaded is “Update2020.zip” and has an md5sum of 48f629b5032e730cde91d63bdb34ae46
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.
This one is not currently available, but when I downloaded it the filename was “AmigaMegaZics_(Update 03-2022).rar”
Grogons Protracker Modules GPack
See https://grogon.com/protracker-modules-gpack/
From the readme: “This is a curated collection of Protracker modules. It contains Protracker-compatible tracks from various sources, carefully screened and cataloged. It’s not solely a collection of the best mods; rather, the tracks included are mostly suited for casual listening.
Each composer has their own folder, additionally marked with a country domain extension as a suffix. ‘xx’ is used if a person’s nationality is unknown to me (feel free to let me know if you have this information).”
Filename as downloaded is “Protracker Modules Gpack.rar” - and at the time of writing the file was last updated on the 3rd January 2025 and has an md5sum of 3f290b3cece0010119dbb1702e735ed1
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
Amiga Music Preservation https://amp.dascene.net/home.php