Once upon a time, people started creating music on an exciting new medium called home computer, developing and utilizing exciting new techniques and establishing a whole new musical trend.
Due to the immature nature of the computer medium, musicians were forced to be creative with small resources, as the lack of hardware power restricted them to using small amounts of memory and small amounts of processor speed.
As time went by, the first useful tools for editing computer music became a standard. The famous 'tracker series (which originated on the legendary Amiga with Karsten Obarski's Soundtracker) is probably the best known example. The 'tracker range's characteristic 'module' format, containing all the necessary music data in one file, is very practical and was quickly copied by other music editors.
As a wide variety of music editors became available, people started to long for a universal program that could play the various types of modules, so that they wouldn't have to keep on collecting all the different editors.
Several module players appeared in the computer scene, but only a few kept evolving to match the quickly changing demands of the module listening public.
DeliTracker was one of 'the' module players on the Amiga. It has been completly rewritten and is now available on the Windows platform as 'DeliPlayer'.
DeliPlayer plays most of the classic sound routines that gave the Amiga its distinctive and varied sound! Amiga fans, imagine playing your old favorite Amiga tunes on your PC, with 16-bit interpolated sound quality, mixed stereo and a lot more! PC fans, imagine playing your favorite modules from various editors in one very versatile yet user-friendly environment, stuffed with attractive options!
DeliPlayer is available for Windows 95/98 and NT/2000 on Intel and compatible processors. Supported file formats include (among 156 others):
Here is the complete list of (162) sound-formats currently supported by DeliPlayer:
| 4mat-Tracker | A.M.Composer 1.2 | AC1D Packer | AHX v2 |
| AProSys | AU-SND | Actionamics | AmosMusicBank |
| ArtOfNoise | AudioSculpture | BugSoundTracker | C64-SID |
| Channel Players | Composer669 | Customplay | Digital Illusions |
| DeltaMusic | DeltaMusic 1.0 | DeltaMusic 2.0 | DigiBooster Pro |
| Digital Mugician | DigitalTracker 1.0 | DSS | EMS |
| EarAche | Eureka Packer | FaceTheMusic | FastTracker 2 |
| FC-M Packer | FollinPlayer II | FredEditor | Future Composer 1.3 |
| Future Composer 1.4 | FutureComposer | Fuzzac Packer | Game Music Creator |
| GMOD | GlueMon | GraveComposer | HeatSeeker mc1.0 |
| Hippel | Hippel-COSO | Hippel-ST | Hornet Packer |
| IFF-8SVX | IFF-AIFF | ImpulseTracker 1.x | ImpulseTracker 2.x |
| JamCracker | Jason Brooke | Jason Page | Jason Page Old |
| JayTrax | Jesper Olsen | JS-Player | Kefrens Sound Machine |
| Laxity-Tracker | LeglessMusicEditor | Martin Walker | M.O.N. |
| M.O.N. old | MED | MED Song | MMDC |
| MPEG Audio | Mark II | Martin Walker | Medley |
| modCRUSHER | Module Protector | MultiTracker | Music-Assembler |
| MusicLineEditor | MusicMaker | NESA | NSF |
| NoisePacker 1.0/2.0 | NoisePacker 3.0 | NoiseRunner | NoiseTracker |
| NoiseTracker Pak | OctaMED | OctaMED SoundStudio | Octalyser |
| Oktalyzer | PSA | PanPacker | Paul Shields |
| Pha Packer | Pierre Adane Packer | PolkaPacker | PolyTracker |
| Power Music | PowerTracker | Promizer 0.1 | Promizer 1.x |
| Promizer 2.0 | Promizer 4.0 | ProPacker 1.0 | ProPacker 2.1 |
| ProRunner 1.0 | ProRunner 2.0 | ProRunner 2.1 | ProTracker |
| PumaTracker | Pygmy Packer | QuadraComposer | Quartet |
| RIFF-WAV | Richard Joseph | Rob Hubbard 2 | SCUMM Player |
| ScreamTracker 3 | Sean Connolly | Sean Conran | Sidmon 1.0 |
| Sidmon 2.0 | SKYT Packer | SonicArranger | SoundControl |
| SoundFX 1.3 | SoundFX 2.0 | SoundImages | SoundMon 1.0 |
| SoundMon 2.0 | SoundMon 2.2 | SoundTracker 15 | SoundTracker 31 |
| SoundTracker Pro 3.0 | Soundcontrol 5.0 | Soundfactory | ST-Cruncher |
| StarTrekker 4 | StarTrekker 8 | StarTrekker Packer | STK 2.6 - IceTracker |
| SymphonyPleasure | Synthesis | SynTracker | TFMX 1.x |
| TFMX 7V | TFMX Pro | TME | TakeTracker |
| The Player 4.0a | The Player 4.0b | The Player 4.1a | The Player 5.0a |
| The Player 6.0a | The Player 6.1a | TheHolyNoise | Tracker Packer 1 |
| TrackerPacker 2/3 | UNIC-Tracker | Ultimate SoundTracker | VSS |
| WantonPacker | Whittaker | X-Tracker | Xann Packer |
| Zen Packer |
Color legend: Emulated, Converted, Native
DeliPlayer's features include:
If you want to automatically play tunes with DeliPlayer whenever you double click them you can use the Extension Registration Tool which is installed together with DeliPlayer.
DeliPlayer's main concept is the Client-Server model. The server is the player
itself, controlling all plugins.
All other components like the Panel (the GUI to control DeliPlayer) and the Playlist
are clients.
The player engine itself uses plugins to expand its capabilities. Without the plugins
the engine can not play anything.