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Topic:  Extracting MODs from music disks
* Posted by djkrpt Tuesday 2 September 2008 - 4:32 
Not sure about the legal implications of doing this, but there is one disk called Drastic Scream by Soundwave that has some killer ravey-techno-dance-whatever tunes on it from 1995 or 1996 ... I've tried DOS-box to no avail and as the disk is only a pakked [pklite] .exe file I would really love to be able to extract these tunes so I can actually listen to them! Any help? Or is this too dodgy to touch?

I even went as far as emailing the original artist {at least I think it was him, he might be a doctor now with no time to help a nerd like me :D ]

Hit me back at djkrpt@gmail.com if you can help, cheers!

* Posted by psenough Tuesday 2 September 2008 - 22:13 
depacking is not illegal in any country as far as i know, so it aint dodgy subject at all.
just unpack the exe (shouldnt be hard considering you already know the packer), find the .mod header with an hex editor, copy all bytes till the next .mod header. unless its a fancy format it shouldnt be that complicated. i remember there were some tools for it actually but i have no clue on the names anymore. maybe some of the hornet guys can help you, they used to run that demodulate site thing which consisted on exactly that (extracting mods from demos and musicdisks) and they're somewhat still active around, atleast on pouet, maybe you should ask in a bbs thread in there.

[Post edited by psenough on Tuesday 2 September 2008 - 22:14]

* Posted by djkrpt Friday 5 September 2008 - 3:13 
Thanks mate, yeah I think the .txt that accompanied the disk says the tunes are in some random format like .dmf or something... but yeah I'll ask around, cheers for your reply.

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