The Technofile Web site has moved. You can find out what this obsession is all about by following these links to my special selection of downloadable MOD files and downloadable MOD players . You'll find dozens of MOD audio files you can download directly from my pages, and you'll also find links to software programs that let just about any modern computer play these recordings. That means most MODs are single-genre compositions. MOD players are available for PCs and Macintosh computers in addition to Amigas and STs.
MODs are files, just as word-processing documents are files.
Because they are so small one of the MODs I've posted on the Web plays for 20 minutes yet is not much larger than half a megabyte they can easily be stored on floppy disks or sent across the Internet. A WAV audio file of the same composition as this 20-minute MOD would take up more than 50 megabytes of storage. Among audio formats that can handle any kind of music and sound, only MPEG Layer 3 files are more compact than MODs. For PCs using Windows, the standard high-quality MOD player is called Mod4Win. Although Mod4Win was not designed to take advantage of the modern versions of Windows, it works very well under Windows 95 and its successor, Windows 98.