• MOD4WIN 2.40
• MOD4WIN 2.40 MCI device driver

Official Beta Release of MOD4WIN 2.40

• MOD4WIN 2.40 - last betawithout hardware mixing support (english+german only) [894.709 Bytes]
• MOD4WIN 2.40 - last beta with GUS/EWS64 support (english+german only) [906.377 Bytes]

• MOD4WIN 2.40 - beta "new skin" by Daniel Renner aka Duke [939.284 Bytes]
  Please eMail you comments or suggestions to Duke

• MOD4WIN 2.40 Beta - Czech resources only [16.551 Bytes]
• MOD4WIN 2.40 Beta - Dutch resources only [8.911 Bytes]
• MOD4WIN 2.40 Beta - French help and resources [178.765 Bytes]
• MOD4WIN 2.40 Beta - German help and resources[175.090 Bytes]
• MOD4WIN 2.40 Beta - Greek help and resources [265.700 Bytes]
• MOD4WIN 2.40 Beta - Italian resources only [9.160 Bytes]
• MOD4WIN 2.40 Beta - Spanish help and resources [181.529 Bytes]

2006/12/10

• German Umlauts in Bitmap Fonts are replaced by latin equivalents
• MOD4WIN does not complain anymore about not removed Font resource

2006/12/04

• Hotkeys "X" and "C" for Exit/Close did not save playing state

2006/06/21

• Fixed About->Normal view not updating Window
• "Open"->Cancel always stopped "next" playback
• Key "D" saves current song to disk
• Removed Hardware support for EWS64, GUS and OPL4
• MOD4WIN does not reposition itself anymore to fit into the Desktop, this is the only way to make it appear on a secondary Display in multi monitor systems (Win16 does not know of multiple monitors)

1999/5/3

• Unrestricted last Beta now available for free

1998/12/11

• Fixed GDI resource eater bug
• Fixed MODEM Wave devices in SETUP dialog...again
• Fixed 256 color palette bugs
• Fixed display bug with ATI GFX cards
• Fixed total time display with times > 99 min 59 sec
• Fixed Arpeggio

1998/11/30

• Added CPU and FPU Cubic Spline Interpolation
• Added intelligent surround...MOD4WIN now autodetects if a Channel needs to play in surround or normal mode [if you turn on Surround]
• Added support for local PeakFiles
• Added Hotkeys "X" and "C" for Exit/Close
• Added Hotkey "N" for miNistate
• Added "CTRL"+"F5..8" Hotkeys for IDO switching
• Added HotKeys "CTRL"+"Left/Right" for skipping whole Patterns
• Added HotKey "BREAK" (besides SCROLL LOCK) to toggle Playback of current Pattern only
• Changed double click behavior to toggle ministate
• MOD4WIN now keeps SHUFFLE order while deleting songs from list
• Lowered Cubic Spline PreAmp by 2dB to avoid overamping.(Cubic splines can reach 125% ~ +2dB of the original sample value)
• Fixed FT2 Note with volume=0 and FineVolUp BUG
• Fixed Rertigger&VolumeSlide without volume slide
• Fixed IDO to OFF in hardware mixing modi
• Fixed WindowsNT INTERRUPT timer mode
• Forced FPU Cubic Splines for HDD recording
• Fixed Fast Forward and Rewind
• Fixed FT2 FadeOut
• Fixed LCD Font characters "8" and "9"
• Fixed PatternLoop hang up
• Fixed Fine and XtraFine portamento down...it did portamento up
• Speeded up loaders
• Fixed FT2 SetEnvelopePos BUG
• Fixed Retrigger+Volumeslide Bug
• Fixed Tone Portamento without Tone bug
• Added ST3 Period limit for portamento up's
• Fixed FT2 Mixed tone effects (e.g. Portamento & Vibrato on Volume Column)
• Fixed FT2 Envelope Sustain handling
• Fixed FT2 tone portamento with current Volume=0 and new Instrument Bug

1998/08/20

• Fixed stupid FT2 Envelopes
• Fixed long time for exiting MOD4WIN with UseHardware=0
• Fixed Windows NT caption display bug
• Added Auto-"UseHardware=0" setting when no supported hardware is detected or Windows crashes while detecting custom Hardware
• Fixed FT2 TonePortamento with new Instrument BUG
• Increased number of FT2 Samples from 256 to all possible 1024
• Fixed FT2 NoteOn volume handling

1998/07/23

• Fixed FineVolUp/FineVolDown/FinePortaUp/FinePortaDown
  (They were executed on first instead of second tick)
• Fixed FT2 linear arpeggio (it was in AMIGA periods)
• Swapped OKTALYZER Portamento Up and Down effects
• Fixed Pattern Loop Lockup (Thanks to IT-Alien)
• Enabled Win98 gradient Caption painting
• Made timer intervalls smaller in Interrupt mode
• ReEnabled the good old TASK timer mode for a better "slow machine timing"
• Fixed ExactPeakSearch with one channel MODules
• Fixed background timer bug ...sometimes the time update stopped
• Added GUSPnP Plug and Play detection (no need to set ULTRASND anymore!)
• Fixed "Move" Option in system menu
• Fixed PlayOffset 2x BUG
• Added Extension Checkup and Icons (Thanx to Mikko Lyly)
• Added "PeakHold" Option for WIN.INI section
• Tried to make Multitasking better on slow machines

1998-5-28

• Fixed FT2 SetSampleOffset (...a "playing" note is required)
• FIX: OKTALYZER Arpeggio's were not played at all
• Fixed FT2 SetFineTune
• Fixed FT2 NoteOn without an Instrument
• Centralized PeakSearch cache handling (SYSDIR\MOD4WIN.PKS)
• Fixed FT2 Retrigger Note (now with Envelope Reset)
• Fixed FT2 NoteDelay
• Fixed Bug in "ExactPeakSearch"
• Fixed XM SetEnvelope Pos BUG (Now we only set the Volume Envelope Position)
• Fixed Interwave NoteOff (Panning->0)
• Fixed Loop->STOP Handling with PatternLoop (I hope)
• Fixed Empty Pattern loading with XM
• Added "ExactPeakSearch" Option to Win.INI
• Fixed "UseHarware=0" BUG. We always tried to detect an EWS64.
• Fixed again EWS64 high pitched notes
• Fixed SetSampleOffset BUG with notes that played off
• Fixed BUG in FAR loader
• Added Error logging
• Changed S3M PatternLoop like "IT" does it

1998-1-22

• Limited EWS64 max Pitch to 16.0
• Fixed GPF with too many Patterns and Tracks per MODule
• Added scanning of packed files when loading subdirs
• Added NoteOff and GlobalVol=DefGlobalVol at Repeat1
• Removed Note limit completely
• Speeded up GF1 Memory tansfers in Win3.1x/95
• Fixed Pattern Loop while Pattern Delay BUG
• Fixed SetSampleOffset with XM
• Fixed Set Volume with Note Delay

1997-11-24

• Fixed Note Delay *.MOD compatibility BUG (All PC Players and Trackers I have except IPlay are playing this wrong!)
• Fixed "previous song" button handling
• Removed Hourglass cursor on minimized and inactive App
• Fixed XM Envelope Reset handling
• Fixed Extreme Pattern looping bug
• Fixed EWS64/GUS KeyOff BUG
• Fixed EWS64 8Bit memory management

1997-11-12

• Fixed DPMI memory management in Win95
• Timing changed again :((
• EWSSurround on startup did not work

1997-11-05

• Fixed Portamento down bug with *.MOD
• Fixed Display junk when MOD4WIN was started in MiniState
• Changed XM panning to as it ever was since v2.30
• Slowed down the wave buffer timing a bit

1997-10-24

• Fixed MOD4WIN's window management a bit
• Implemented PeakSearch cache (Player32.PKS) :-)
• Fixed Bug with EWS64 surround
• Fixed DTD "is not supported" Error message in MOD4WIN's Setup
• Changed DAC and DTD mode timing in Windows NT...again
• Fixed FT2 Panning...again :(
• Note: The Timer modi in MOD4WINs SETUP are fakes now! You don't need to switch them.

1997-10-20

• Changed GUS Volume and Panning handling.
• Fixed Panning Incompatibilty with XM
• Implemented Timer WatchDog for Windows NT...Now you'll not need to press pause/pause anymore ;-)
• FIX: You do not hear the beginning of the MODule at the end anymore without "Repeat 1"
• Spedded up SAM9407 (not-)detection
• Disabled DPMI memory in Windows NT since the OS does not seem to free DMPI buffers (???)
• Completely changed timing in DAC and HDD modi.
• Removed LoBuffer detection because it slowed down the system too much without the expected effect.
• NOTE: Please do not set the Number of Buffers >80 in Windows NT with CREATIVE LABS wave drivers!

1997-10-10

• FIX: MOD4WIN did not properly end itself without an EWS64

1997-10-8

• Fixed BUG with SampleOffset
• Added LoBuffer detection. If the Wave buffer goes below 10% the Player32.DLL will take all time it can get to fill the Buffer to more than 50% and then it will return to normal timing.
• Added PeakSearch and LoadProgress Display in MOD4WIN's main window
• Forced ShowPeakSearch ON in DTD Recording mode
• Changed timing so that MOD4WIN now perfectly cooperates with Windows 95 and Windows NT tasking
• Implemented EWS64 Windows drivers v2.0 compatibility
• Fixed Retrigger+Volumeslide BUG

1997-9-18

• Enabled Windows NT playback for all SAM9407 compatible cards. To use it you have to set the envirorment variable (Control Panel->System->Envirorment) "SAM9407=330" where 330 is the base port in hex...and you have to boot DOS before Windows NT to upload the firmware!
• fixed a bug in MOD4WIN's Button handling ...from stone age
• Enabled native playback for all SAM9407 cards (not only TerraTec's EWS64 XL)
• Removed nasty BUG with SampleOffset without a sample
• Fixed spelling errors in italian resources
• Temporarily fixed FT2 Volume Column FX Bug with note delay
• Fixed pattern loop handling
• Fixed Fadeout bug in HD Recorder

1997-8-6

• Removed Nag Screen. Five songs is limit enough ;)
• Fixed Memory Management to allow MODules >16MB
  I HOPE THIS WORKS!
• Fixed Effect Panel move handling
• Changed addresses in help files and registration forms

1997-7-17

• Added Fadeout in HDD mode
• Fixed XM tuning...I hope

1997-6-26

• Fixed Borland's Pentium II Bug
• Fixed Problem with Retrig Note (Thanks to Brian Kemp)
• FIX: All Slide FX slided too fast in Betas 13 to 16 (Thanks to Valentine Michael Smith)

1997-4-25

• Fixed Problem with GUS Detection
• Fixed Pattern loop Bug (thanks to MAZ ;)
• Fixed display Bug (thanks to Fredric Echols)

1997-4-21

• fixed Tremolo Bug (thanks to E-Keet)
• Killed SetSampleOffset Clicks

1997-4-7

• Final TerraTec EWS64 Playback routines
• TrlPlay.VxD|386|SYS handling changed
• S3M 16Bit Sampling changed to load IT's S3Ms
• ficed Command line bug while while MOD4WIN was minimized
• Changed Memory handling for Win95/NT

1997-2-25

• Changed global FX handling (I hope this works!)
• Envelope problem with FT2 corrected
• Corrected spelling error in german resources
• Corrected About display on Drag&Drop

1997-2-17

• Added Italian resources
• Fixed BUGs in the drivers exit code that left TSKxxx.TMP running.
• Fixed FX diplay bug in EWS64 and GUS mode when no PeakSearch was on
• Removed VxD-Timer in Windows 95 and 3.1x to avoid system crashes

1997-2-4

• Improved Windows NT Timing especially in Task mode
• NT GUS-Support is much faster and reliable now...I hope
• Fixed memory management problem in Player32

1997-1-31

• Beta GUS support in Windows NT!
  • Set the UltraSnd=2x0,xx,xx,xx,xx envirorment!
  • The GUS mixer must be set up in DOS/Win95 before
  • GUS Timing not very good yet
• Probably more stable VxD-Timer in Windows 3.1/95
  (On system hang up Problems just delete TrlPlay.* and report this to me)

1997-1-24

• Background noise in Player32 removed (...again ;) Thanks to Patrick Jeantaud!

1997-1-22

• Made Player32 cooperate better with M4W_MCI.DRV
• Corrected MOD4WINs outfit in Windows NT 4.0
• Fixed Volume Envelope bug in XM playback

1997-1-21

• Background noise in Player32 removed

1997-1-20

• Instant PreAmp changing in Hardware mixing mode did not work

1997-1-18

• Added more stable versions of trlplay.vxd and trlplay.386 (BTW: If your system locks up in Task mode with the new beta, just delete the VxDs)

1997-1-16

• Player32.dll crashed if the selected wave driver was already open
• Fast Forward and Rewind didn't work if the FX Panel was closed
• GUSPnP public beta 3 drivers v2.0 do not work in software mixing mode. THIS IS NOT A MOD4WIN BUG! Start MPlayer with a big WAV file and make the sound drop (Start a time consuming 16Bit app)...the time wil count on but the sound will mute...

1997-1-14

• Player32.dll had loop problems on high pitches (Thanks to Chris Meland/Noiseless for his BUG report)

1997-1-10

• The PreAmp slider did not work...now it does again
• Player32 Task mode fixed
• Junk-Display problems fixed
• Debug output problems fixed

1997-1-9

• No more Shareware count downs or expiration dates. The new version is a demo that only can hold playlists with up to five songs.
• GUS-PnP/Interwave playback routines
• TerraTec EWS 64 playback routines
• Several sequencing and note playback bugs fixed
• Faster Software Mixing routines
• Almost click free Software mixing
• Windows 95 lookalike interface
• In Win95/3.1 Task MODE now very reliable (VxD Timers Please Test!)
• Better Windows 95 multi tasking
• OPL4 support temporarily disabled

• Long file name support and AMIGA naming convention
• Playback support for CD Audio, WAVE and MIDI
• Unlimited play list size
• Pinnacle drivers
• AWE 32 drivers
• OPL4 drivers
• Real multi threaded timing in Windows 95/NT
• New easier interface
• PlugIn API for new sound drivers and file formats
• Language construction kit (Build you own MOD4WIN ;)
• Updated Help files

MOD4WIN MCI driver demo BETA

• MOD4WIN 2.40 MCI Driver last Beta [86.752 Bytes]

• Did you ever want to use MODules in your own Applications or with a standard Media Player? Here's what you waited for!
  Just install this driver and use MODules in all your MCI capable programs

1999/5/3

• Unrestricted last Beta now available for free

1998/12/11

• Fixed Arpeggio

1998/11/30

• Added intelligent surround...MOD4WIN now autodetects if a Channel needs to play in surround or normal mode [if you turn on Surround]
• Lowered Cubic Spline PreAmp by 2dB to avoid overamping. (Cubic splines can reach 125% ~ +2dB of the original sample value)
• Fixed FT2 Note with volume=0 and FineVolUp BUG
• Fixed Rertigger&VolumeSlide without volume slide
• Added CPU and FPU Cubic Spline Interpolation
• Fixed Fast Forward and Rewind
• Fixed FT2 FadeOut
• Fixed LCD Font characters "8" and "9"
• Fixed PatternLoop hang up
• Fixed Fine and XtraFine portamento down...it did portamento up
• Speeded up loaders
• Fixed FT2 SetEnvelopePos BUG
• Fixed Retrigger+Volumeslide Bug
• Fixed Tone Portamento without Tone bug
• Added ST3 Period limit for portamento up's
• Fixed FT2 Mixed tone effects (e.g. Portamento & Vibrato on Volume Column)
• Fixed FT2 Envelope Sustain handling
• Fixed FT2 tone portamento with current Volume=0 and new Instrument Bug
• Fixed FT2 SetEnvelopePos BUG

1998/08/20

• Fixed stupid FT2 Envelopes
• Fixed long time for exiting MOD4WIN with UseHardware=0
• Fixed Windows NT caption display bug
• Added Auto-"UseHardware=0" setting when no supported hardware is detected or Windows crashes while detecting custom Hardware
• Fixed FT2 TonePortamento with new Instrument BUG
• Increased number of FT2 Samples from 256 to all possible 1024
• Fixed FT2 NoteOn volume handling

1998/07/23

• Fixed FineVolUp/FineVolDown/FinePortaUp/FinePortaDown
  (They were executed on first instead of second tick)
• Fixed FT2 linear arpeggio (it was in AMIGA periods)
• Swapped OKTALYZER Portamento Up and Down effects
• Fixed Pattern Loop Lockup (Thanks to IT-Alien)
• ReEnabled the good old TASK timer mode for a better "slow machine timing"
• Fixed ExactPeakSearch with one channel MODules
• Fixed background timer bug ...sometimes the time update stopped
• Added GUSPnP Plug and Play detection (no need to set ULTRASND anymore!)
• Fixed PlayOffset 2x BUG
• Tried to make Multitasking better on slow machines

1998-5-28

• Fixed FT2 SetSampleOffset (...a "playing" note is required)
• FIX: OKTALYZER Arpeggio's were not played at all
• Fixed FT2 SetFineTune
• Fixed FT2 NoteOn without an Instrument
• Centralized PeakSearch cache handling (SYSDIR\MOD4WIN.PKS)
• Fixed MCI playback start from within Console Appz
• Fixed FT2 Retrigger Note (now with Envelope Reset)
• Fixed FT2 NoteDelay
• Fixed Bug in "ExactPeakSearch"
• Fixed XM SetEnvelope Pos BUG (Now we only set the Volume Envelope Position)
• Fixed Interwave NoteOff (Panning->0)
• Fixed Loop->STOP Handling with PatternLoop (I hope)
• Fixed Empty Pattern loading with XM
• Added "ExactPeakSearch" Option to Win.INI
• Fixed "UseHarware=0" BUG. We always tried to detect an EWS64.
• Fixed again EWS64 high pitched notes
• Fixed XM SetEnvelope Pos BUG
• Fixed SetSampleOffset BUG with notes that played off
• Fixed BUG in FAR loader
• Changed S3M PatternLoop like "IT" does it

1998-1-22

• Limited EWS64 max Pitch to 16.0
• Fixed GPF with too many Patterns and Tracks per MODule
• Added NoteOff and GlobalVol=DefGlobalVol at Repeat1
• Removed Note limit completely
• Speeded up GF1 Memory tansfers in Win3.1x/95
• Fixed Pattern Loop while Pattern Delay BUG
• Fixed SetSampleOffset with XM
• Fixed Set Volume with Note Delay

1997-11-24

• Fixed Note Delay *.MOD compatibility BUG (All PC Players and Trackers I have except IPlay are playing this wrong!)
• Fixed XM Envelope Reset handling
• Fixed Extreme Pattern looping bug
• Fixed EWS64/GUS KeyOff BUG
• Fixed EWS64 8Bit memory management

1997/11/12

• Fixed DPMI memory management in Win95
• Timing changed again :((
• EWSSurround on startup did not work

1997-11-05

• Fixed Portamento down bug with *.MOD
• Changed XM panning to as it ever was since v2.30

1997-10-24

• Fixed Problem with "start /m mplayer /play "
• Implemented PeakSearch cache (Player32.PKS) :-)
• Fixed Bug with EWS64 surround
• Fixed FT2 Panning...again :(

1997-10-20

• Changed GUS Volume and Panning handling.
• Fixed Panning Incompatibilty with XM
• FIX: You do not hear the beginning of the MODule at the end anymore
• Spedded up SAM9407 (not-)detection
• Completely changed timing in DAC mode.
• Removed LoBuffer detection because it slowed down the system too much without the expected effect.

1997-10-10

• FIX: MOD4WIN did not properly end itself without an EWS64

1997-10-8

• Fixed BUG with SampleOffset
• Added LoBuffer detection. If the Wave buffer goes below 10% the Player32.DLL will take all time it can get to fill the Buffer to more than 50% and then it will return to normal timing.
• Forced ShowPeakSearch ON in DTD Recording mode
• Changed timing so that MOD4WIN now perfectly cooperates with Windows 95 and Windows NT tasking
• Implemented EWS64 Windows drivers v2.0 compatibility
• Fixed Retrigger+Volumeslide BUG

1997-9-18

• Enabled native playback for all SAM9407 cards (not only TerraTec's EWS64 XL)
• Removed nasty BUG with SampleOffset without a sample
• Temporarily fixed FT2 Volume Column FX Bug with note delay
• Fixed pattern loop handling

1997-6-26

• Fixed XM tuning...I hope

1997-6-26

• Fixed Borland's Pentium II Bug
• Fixed Problem with Retrig Note (Thanks to Brian Kemp)
• FIX: All Slide FX slided too fast in Betas 13 to 16 (Thanks to Valentine Michael Smith)

1997-4-25

• Fixed Problem with GUS Detection
• Fixed Pattern loop Bug (thanks to MAZ ;)

1997-4-21

• fixed Tremolo Bug (thanks to E-Keet)
• Killed SetSampleOffset Clicks

1997-4-16

• Fixed nasty GPFs while starting playback

1997-4-7

• Final TerraTec EWS64 Playback routines
• TrlPlay.VxD|386|SYS handling changed
• S3M 16Bit Sampling changed to load IT's S3Ms
• Changed Memory handling for Win95/NT

1997-2-25

• Fixed Stop time when MODule ahs finished playing
• Changed global FX handling (I hope this works!)
• Envelope problem with FT2 corrected
• On deinstallation automatically associate MODule extensions to MOD4WIN

1997-2-17

• Fixed BUGs in the drivers exit code that left TSKxxx.TMP running.
• Removed VxD-Timer in Windows 95 and 3.1x to avoid system crashes

1997-2-4

• Implemented playing "FROM->TO" when you embed a MODule into a document
• Fixed memory management problem

1997-1-31

• MCI driver notification did not work properly
• MCI seek did not work
• Added MODule associations on Installation
• Fixed command line startup for MPLAYER.EXE
• Fixed multiple open problem
• Fixed object embedding problems with Wordpad and Winword

1997-1-25

• removed GPF (Thanks to Mike Silverstein)

1997-1-24

• Background noise in Player32 removed (...again ;) Thanks to Patrick Jeantaud!

1997-1-22

• Included Player32.DLL in the driver

1997-1-10

• Made nag dialog a bit less annoying
• Fixed GPF problems while fast forward/rewind