UADE

Most Amiga formats play fine in an ordinary module player, but hundreds of game-music formats were never documented. Every composer or studio wrote its own replay routine in assembly, and the only way to sound exactly right was to run that very code. UADE takes that route: it loads DeliTracker plugins, known as eagleplayers, and executes them on a 68000 emulator borrowed from UAE, with Paula emulated for the audio.

The upshot is that collections like Exotica can be heard on Linux, macOS and through plugins in mainstream players, without anyone reverse-engineering TFMX and its relatives. The approach is ugly in exactly the way it is elegant: when you can't understand the format, you run the machine instead.