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I remember several PC games with "amiga music". Settlers (the original), SuperFrog, Pinball Fantasies, and so on. Most likely because they were amiga ports. They didn't necessarily use the MOD format all of them, but still. I remember ripping the music from SuperFrog and Settlers at least.

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A little later, Unreal, Unreal Tournament, and Deus Ex all used tracker music, to enduring acclaim.

Interesting that UT decided not to just play back an MP3, as that would be too heavy on CPU's time budget, and settled on mods instead. IIRC, Quake's music (by Trent Reznor) was just played back from the game's CD, which means that most people never got to experience it (as most people played the pirated copy of the game, without the audio CD tracks).

>Settlers (the original)

Was written in 68k assembly. The port either implemented an emulator or translated the code ahead of time.

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