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So, here is the sourcecode of the XM information displayer.
It is a console application that plays a XM module with BASS and retrieves the current position from BASS. With that position the current notes are displayed.

First, the module is loaded in memory, and that's the part that I arranged. (thanks to libXMP, mikmod).

Enjoy, Rene.

P.S. the Bass lib is 64-bit. In case you get compilation errors.

Looking at the BASS library, I discovered that the position of the MOD can be retrieved. No other module information.
So, I will be making a XM module loader to map the BASS position to the XM structures. That way, I can determine which instrument is played in realtime.
I saw some information about XM in the MikMod sources, so I guess it can be done.

Greets, Rene.

There is music, maestro! 
BASS ships 64-bit DLL's and LIB's compatible with VS2010.  Download at: www.un4seen.com/stuff/bass24-x64.zip

To start the music simply do:

HMUSIC TheMod;
BASS_Init(-1,44100,0,0,NULL);
char xmfile[] = "CRACKINT.MOD";
TheMod = BASS_MusicLoad(FALSE,xmfile,0,0,BASS_MUSIC_RAMPS,1);
BASS_ChannelPlay(TheMod,FALSE);

and at exit:
BASS_MusicFree(TheMod);
BASS_Free();

Include the bass.h in your C code and link the bass.lib.

To Hellfire: I do my demo in 64-bit because my host operating system is 64-bit. I really do not want to reinstall Visual Studio, Cuda toolkit, etc... You are right that I don't need more than 2 Gb for my little demo!

Thanks for the hint, Raizor.
This morning I discovered that XMPLib contains a win32 directory, so I gave it a try with MINGW on my Windows 7 64 bit.
The DLL is compiled correctly after the "confgure, make" dance. However, the DLL was still 32-bit!  After checking the MINGW website, I discovered that MINGW is only 32-bit at this time.
There is another project called MinGW-w64 that claims to be able to compile x64. Perhaps I try to install that.
When that fails, I will try to look at chibi-itplay.

Just for fun, I created a sinescroller using nVidia CUDA. It all works fine.
But now, I want to add my favorite XM module as a music, but  I'm using Win 7, 64 bits. Unfortunately, there seems to be no XM player compatible with 64-bits.
Ufmod, mini-fmod all contain assembler, which does not link with 64-bits.

Does anyone of you know a XM player which can be linked with 64-bits C code?
The XMPLib does not compile with Visual Studio, so that is not working for me.

Greets, Rene Olsthoorn.

C# for work. (in the past I did 6510, 68000, 8086, 80386, C, C++, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic, Java)
I'm reading a book on parallel programming with Cuda. My last demo was for the Amiga, but now I want to create another demo, because all those Cuda cores are great for creating demos.