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Few reasons:

1.Midas is outdated
2.Midas requires commercial licensing
3.MikMod is still under development, and stable enough
4.MikMod can be cross-platform
5.Can wrap MikMod command sets to compatible with current PB
6.Supported MOD formats are almost identical
7.MikMod has better licensing scheme

Personally I prefer uFMOD, but it's still growing, however MikMod/LibMik is a good solution tho.

Why not using libmodplug ? It have far better sound reproduction, better interpolation (sinc/polyphase), a better support for all weird modules, the sources are not released but are open in case you want to code a OSS/Alsa/Esd/Jack output driver. (the code is plain C)

It's OK to use 3rd party solution, and either is better than Midas,
just wondering how Fred will deal with PB.

This remains unchanged since I bought PB long ago, and we have many solution now, the question is "which" will be in.

yoxola wrote:Few reasons:
...
1.Midas is outdated
2.Midas requires commercial licensing
...

Absolutely.

There is also an issue with coppyright of the name "MIDAS". The system is now called HouseMarque sound system and hasn't been updated since 1998.

Any plans to update the 'Module' library to use something more sensible?

Cheers,
Codefire

We plan to switch from MIDAS to libmodplug with the next Lost Labyrinth release.

Give us native streaming OGG support
It's free!!!

Has anyone a running linux version?

We tried it on lostlabyrinth but we hear no sound.