...and the samples being included also made sure that mods sounded more or less the same no matter where you played them, whereas MIDI files (the alternative at the time) sounded wildly different depending on the capabilities of the sound card.
Sometimes you can, because the music was composed for a specific synthesizer. One notable example is the Roland MT-32, which was used for the soundtracks of many early PC games.
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...and the samples being included also made sure that mods sounded more or less the same no matter where you played them, whereas MIDI files (the alternative at the time) sounded wildly different depending on the capabilities of the sound card.
Always wondered if you could ever know with Midi what the original music creators ever intended since it varied wildly based on hardware.
Sometimes you can, because the music was composed for a specific synthesizer. One notable example is the Roland MT-32, which was used for the soundtracks of many early PC games.