Hi there,

Thank you for visiting Old School Game Blog. It’s Sunday today and time for another piece of Amiga-related news. Whilst browsing Aminet for new files to download, I discovered that an update (2.60) for the well-known module player HippoPlayer had been released today!

If you are not familiar with HippoPlayer, it is a multiformat module player that works on all classic Amiga computers with Kickstart 1.2 and higher. It was developed by Kari-Pekka Koljonen and was first released back in 1994.

I dare say that HippoPlayer has been my favorite mod-player since the 90’s. It is therefore great to see that development continues, making the program even better.

Now, in February 2024, an update has been released. Here are the changes since the previous version:

Quick overview of major changes since v2.45

• List mode toggle button to switch between the list modes
• Main list
• Favorites: your favorited modules
• File browser: browse file system for modules
• Search view: search internet sites, browse shared playlists
• New Prefs options:
• “Button tooltips”: Hover mouse over gadgets to get help
• “Favorites”: Right click modules to favorite them
• “Keep list on exit”: Continue where you left off
• “Big buttons”: Larger buttons
• “PlaySID mode”: Enable reSID or SIDBlaster for PSID files
• “MIDI mode”: Select how to play MIDI files
• “Enable xmaplay060”: Enable a high quality XM replayer
• “Enable MHI”: Play MP3s with extenal hardware
• “Position slider”: For displaying and selecting position
• Resizable main and info windows
• Main window font can be changed to any font
• Support for many new music formats, stereo SID support
• Improved scopes: support for more music formats, multiple scopes,
  spectrum scope, patternscope with two sizes and up to 18 channels
  (“mini4” font needed for 8+ channel display)
• Support for MP3 streaming, radio stations
• “Add” button in file browser or search view: copy items to main list
• Support for playlists of up to 131071 items.

New keyboard shortcuts:

• Favorite module: [CTRL+F]
• Toggle list mode: [SHIFT+M]
• Navigate to parent in file browser: [BACKSPACE]
• Search modules: [CTRL+S]
• Download file: [CTRL+G]

Here is the link to the download page:

https://aminet.net/package/mus/play/hippoplayerupdate

More information about HippoPlayer:

https://github.com/koobo/HippoPlayer

https://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/HippoPlayer

Thanks for reading! Have a nice Sunday! 🙂