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macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%

brew install uade

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Linux

Nixverified · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#uade

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ua/uade/package.nix · source: api.github.com

overview

Package summary

Play Amiga tunes through UAE emulation

Project links

Commands and aliases

bencat
mod2ogg2.sh
uade123

history

Project history and usage

UADE, the Unix Amiga Delitracker Emulator, is a command-line and plugin-oriented player for old Amiga music formats. Its niche is preserving and replaying tracker-era Amiga modules on Unix-like systems by combining UAE emulation with reimplemented Eagleplayer and Delitracker player APIs.

Project history

The UADE homepage says the project plays old Amiga tunes through UAE emulation and a cloned m68k-assembler Eagleplayer API. It credits UAE for the emulation infrastructure and the Eagleplayer and Delitracker projects for the player architecture that made many Amiga-specific replayers reusable on modern platforms.

The same homepage frames UADE as free software under the GNU GPL and says it runs on Unix variants such as GNU/Linux, Free/OpenBSD, and Mac OS X, plus AmigaOS and MorphOS. It is designed for both command-line use and player-plugin use.

Adoption history

UADE's adoption is strongest in preservation and demoscene-adjacent music collections rather than mainstream desktop audio. Its homepage points users toward Amiga music resources such as Exotica, Modland, and Amiga Music Preservation, and the FAQ describes practical use with command-line playback, XMMS-style plugins, and music archives.

The batch input lists Homebrew and Nix packages for uade, which matches the tool's role as a small Unix package for collectors and format nerds who want reproducible access to Amiga replay code from modern systems.

How it is used

The package exposes uade123 for command-line playback and helper scripts such as mod2ogg2.sh. The FAQ repeatedly describes debugging and playback from the command line, including passing custom tunes directly and using verbose mode when reporting bugs.

UADE is used when generic module players are not enough: its value is reusing Amiga replayers and recognizing older Amiga naming and file-format conventions rather than treating every tracker file as a generic MOD-family asset.

Why package nerds care

UADE is package-nerd interesting because it packages software archaeology: old Amiga player logic, UAE-derived emulation, and command-line Unix workflows in one small formula.

It is also a reminder that preservation packages often depend less on broad popularity than on exact behavior. A package manager makes that behavior available without requiring users to reconstruct old player stacks by hand.

Timeline

2005: The official FAQ is dated 2005-11-22 and already describes command-line, XMMS, plugin, and archive-oriented workflows.
2008-2009: The homepage lists UADE 2.10 through 2.13 releases.
2022: UADE 3.00, 3.01, and 3.02 are listed as released.
2024: The homepage lists UADE 3.05 as released on 2024-10-06.

Related projects

UAE provided the emulation foundation UADE builds on.
Eagleplayer and Delitracker supplied the historical player API model UADE reimplements.
Exotica, Modland, and Amiga Music Preservation are adjacent archives named by the project as useful sources of Amiga music.

Sources

https://zakalwe.fi/uade/ describes UADE's purpose, licenses, releases, repository, platforms, command-line/plugin design, and historical dependencies on UAE, Eagleplayer, and Delitracker.
https://zakalwe.fi/uade/faq.html documents command-line usage, bug-report expectations, format behavior, plugins, and archive workflows.
source_facts.executables and source_facts.package-manager identify the packaged commands and Homebrew/Nix availability.

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 8 platform targets.
Installs with 1 runtime dependencies.
Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure
`bencat`	cli	global executable
`mod2ogg2.sh`	cli	global executable
`uade123`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08

manager version3.05

manager updated

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://zakalwe.fi/uade/

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://zakalwe.fi/uade/none confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:uade
Version	3.05
Package manager	Homebrew
Package manager page	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/uade
Homepage	https://zakalwe.fi/uade/
Repository	https://gitlab.com/uade-music-player/uade
Upstream docs	https://zakalwe.fi/uade
License	GPL-2.0-only
Source archive	https://zakalwe.fi/uade/uade3/uade-3.05.tar.bz2
Dependencies	libao
Build dependencies	pkgconf
Bottle	available (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	not defined
Service	none declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	uade
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

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Nix95%

uade

nix profile install nixpkgs#uade

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Matched by: Uade

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package graph

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source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/uade.yml

Used sources

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