Mod4Win is a media player for module file

Module file

Module files are a family of music file formats originating from the MOD file format on Amiga systems used in late 1980s...

s written by Kay Bruns. It is skinnable

Skin (computing)

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, multi-format freeware

Freeware

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. It was one the first Mod player for the Windows platform.

Mod4Win was first released by Kay Bruns in 1993. Development was suspended in May 1999.

Initial release

The first fully functional model of MOD4WIN was released in September 1993 and it was a pre-release. The first shareware release was done on November 28, 1993. The first commercial version was released on January 14, 1994.

Final "Unrestricted Beta" Release

The developer released the final beta, version 2.40, as an unrestricted application after development was suspended.

Formats

• Module formats: Impulse Tracker
  Impulse Tracker
  Impulse Tracker is a multi-track digital sound tracker . It was one of the last tracker programs for the DOS platform. It was authored by Jeffrey "Pulse" Lim, and example music was provided by Jeffrey Lim and Chris Jarvis...
  
   (IT), Fast Tracker 2
  Fast Tracker
  FastTracker 2 is a tracker created by Fredrik "Mr. H" Huss and Magnus "Vogue" Högdahl, two members of the demogroup Triton which set about releasing their own tracker after breaking into the scene in 1992 and winning several demo competitions. The source code of FastTracker 2 is written in Pascal...
  
   (XM), Oktalyzer (OKT), Scream Tracker 3
  Scream Tracker
  Scream Tracker is a tracker . It was created by Psi of Finland's Future Crew It was coded in C and assembly language. The first popular version of Scream Tracker, version 2.2, was published in 1990...
  
   (S3M), MultiTracker (MTM), ProTracker
  Protracker
  ProTracker is a popular freeware tracker created by Lars Hamre, Anders Hamre, Sven Vahsen and Rune Johnsrud for the Amiga platform. It is amongst the programs that first allowed for widespread creation of music without studio equipment...
  
   (MOD), Unreal Music Format (UMX), MO3
  MO3
  MO3 is a music file format developed by Ian Luck. MO3 files are tracker modules that contain samples encoded in the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis file formats, rather than straight PCM samples . This results in a greatly reduced file size for the module, while maintaining almost identical audio quality...
  
  
• All Amiga formats
• Full archive support for ARJ
  ARJ
  ARJ is a software tool designed by Robert K. Jung for creating high-efficiency compressed file archives. ARJ is currently on version 2.85 for DOS and 3.15 for Windows and supports 16-bit and 32-bit Intel architectures.ARJ was one of two mainstream archivers for DOS and Windows during early and...
  
   LHARC (LHA) (LZH) PKZIP
  PKZIP
  PKZIP is an archiving tool originally written by Phil Katz and marketed by his company PKWARE, Inc. The common "PK" prefix used in both PKZIP and PKWARE stands for "Phil Katz".-History:...
  
   ZIP (file format)
  ZIP (file format)
  Zip is a file format used for data compression and archiving. A zip file contains one or more files that have been compressed, to reduce file size, or stored as is...