Oh my. I can''t believe how familiar I am with this demo, I must have been amazed with it aged 10.

The Amsoft Welcome Cassette was the first thing I ever did on my first ever computer, the Amstrad CPC 464 (with colour CRT monitor), 31 years ago back in 1985 when I turned 11. Still got the keyboard unit today, now hooked up to my Samsung 26" LED TV (original 4:3 ratio adjusted). Works just fine with this 32 year old software cassette. My brand new i7-4790K build's got the Amstrad at the heart of it too, thank's to WinApe. ;-)

Wow ! Haven't seen it since 30 years :) Thank you Sir

@henrikarlo7826

3 жыл бұрын

I guess I'm quite randomly asking but do anyone know of a good website to stream new movies online ?

@elishaarturo3662

3 жыл бұрын

@Henrik Arlo lately I have been using FlixZone. Just search on google for it =)

The colour combinations in the "Spreadsheet" and "Word Processing" parts are just fantastic! Probably sponsored by he epilepsy organizations.

"Bored with all my games today..... Time to run the demo cassette again"... Ah memories. XD

@perplexedmoth

3 жыл бұрын

Haha exactly

CPC464 was leagues ahead of the C64 for the casual programmer. Every program on this demo cassette was written with the built-in BASIC the machine shipped with in ROM. You could do practically feck all with a C64's standard BASIC other than load commercial disks and tapes.

@jamiejohnson4890

Жыл бұрын

Yep, I used books on c64 basic programming on the abstract. Most worked.

One of my friends had such a machine, which we used to play games on. Most casette tape games had some really colourful title screen that took a-a-a-ges to load/draw onto the screen. We would always get a bit excited when the screen stopped saying LOADING block "X" and turned black instead. Then a couple of lines of the title screen were drawn, the tape would run for some seconds, then stop, then a couple more lines drawn onto the screen, then the tape would run a bit more, then stop, then a couple more lines were drawn etc. This could easily take up to 10 minutes. :D I think it was either 'Winter Games' or 'Spy vs Spy' that took the longest to load.... :P

Where have 30 years gone I remember the day we bought this home.

I remember this and the 11 other tapes i got with my CPC-464 for Christmas. We were green screen paupers though lolz. Talk about a nostalgia rush. I'd totally forgot about this welcome tape until now. Chuckie egg was my favourite game for the system, followed by treasure island Dizzy and all the other Dizzy games, i had the red Dizzy multi pack collection which was a revelation to me and probably the first games i obsessed over. Roland on the ropes was my favorite game out of the 12 games that came with the system. It's still strange to me to see all these 464 games etc in colour, hahaha. What an awesome (not so) little micro computer the Amstrad CPC-464 was, it was a great introduction into computers for me, i loved it and spent many hours using it.

Verdammt, ist Das lange her - und ich kannte beide Seiten - war mir gar nicht mehr bewusst. Danke, war eine schöne Zeitreise!

I had the green monitor… looks amazing in colour

Thanks for the trip back to Xmas day 1984 :)

Those word processor colours were brutal.

@Diamondblade2008

4 жыл бұрын

Back in the 80s my dad bought the 'Protext Word Processor' on disk. The colours were black on a grey background. Much easier on the eyes.

Oh man...I got an Amstrad CPC 464 for Christmas 1988. I havent seen that screen in over 25years. I still have it at my parents house in the attic. Hopefully some some it will be worth a fortune...LOL. The Computer Museum at Bletchley Park has a 464 in its collection. Thanks!

Oh that Homerunner game, I actually thought the full game was on that tape and spent quite some time pressing keys so I could play it. :D

... lief in den 85'ern jedem Kaufhaus :)

The guy from the Wordhang demo always reminded me of Gregory from Gregory Loses his Clock.

Ahead of its time. We STILL havent gotten to Bright Red on Lime Green screens for business productivity!!

my 1st memory of a computer.

Read error b

@aaaooaao9949

4 жыл бұрын

Read error b ... Read error b ... Read error a ... shit

@Diamondblade2008

4 жыл бұрын

@@aaaooaao9949 How shitty was it to get a read error A or read error B just before the game finished loading...

@Lookoutmedia353

Жыл бұрын

I used to get Syntax error a lot. Especially when trying to type in the Pontoon (black jack) card game in Basic that was in the 464's manual. It used to take forever and half of the time wouldn't work went i had finished typing it in.Hahaha, those were the days.

Another dose of quality buddy, enjoyed that..:)

I remember the defunct short lived British software company Amsoft very well and it was owned by Amstrad (sadly Amstrad went out of business years ago after it was sold to Sky, a subsidiary of an American company Comcast) 3:05 That triangle looks like a Christmas tree 🎄! Anyway I played some Amsoft games on Amstrad when I was younger such as Sultan's Maze, Oh Mummy!, Timeman, The Galactic Plague (a clone of Galaga which is owned by Bandai Namco Entertainment) and Roland on the Ropes. By the way I used to have an Amstrad CPC but the screen was always green instead of mixed colours. Now it has gone to the scrapyard. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪

Haven't seen this since owning an Amstrad yet I remember it like it was last week... ah the memories

@quatermano42

5 жыл бұрын

RetroMan HD Time fliiiiiiiiies

Loading from tape, when you could eat your tea whilst waiting for a game to load (or fail to load)

@Diamondblade2008

4 жыл бұрын

One game I had on my CPC6128 was 'Live and Let Die' on cassette. That game took forever to load and it was annoying as hell to get the nasty 'read error A' message just before it finished loading.

fantastic! mon 1er pc le cpc souvenir trés claire et intense avec mon père a la découverte du monde informatique!!!merci papa pour l'ordi amstrad.j'ai encore l'ordi et la cassette.

@quatermano42

5 жыл бұрын

PIERORAZIO MARC caprice32 n u get all u need

They play the "Home Runner" music in Hell.

Epiiiiiiiiiic!

ha, yeah 6128 had the same thing on disk - this takes me back !

Lol I remember word hang too. I played that game for ages....

EPIC !!!!!

I remember sometime when loading games I would not fully press the play button on the tape deck and the tape would play twice as fast and load twice as fast too (unless the game was hyperload with flashing borders)

@quatermano42

5 жыл бұрын

Dexter Jeffrey Yes now that ur talking about it, but the read error b was close before ending loading, I had plugged a disk reader to the 464 after this n really enjoyed to get the game faster playable

Xyphoe: Excuse me for asking you about it on this video, but: - I have been trying to get past stage 1 on Rambo 3 (CPC) for some days now. All of the versions seem to crash after rescuing Colonel Trautman. Could you please tell me which .dsk version did you use (or if you used the real machine)? Thanks in advance and congrats for the amazing channel, long live the CPC!!!

@aitormenta4300

10 жыл бұрын

OK Xyphoe, I managed to get to the last stage on Rambo III: The issue was with WinApe. You must not use snapshots on this game.

Thanks for sharing! The aspect ratio is slightly wrong, as can be seen in parts showing circles, e.g. 03:00 . Good memories anyway!

When i got the machine the last tape i loaded was probably the demonstration :D

i used to put in the wrong letters on hangman just to watch his little face turn sad! :P

@WinrichNaujoks

3 жыл бұрын

Did you also use to pluck the wings off flies?

Surprise!!! I have it already, till today...

Where do you find the code for the bomb ?

I like how they refused to show gameplay from Sultan's Maze. It's like they knew it wasn't very good or something... :P

Never did play home runner back in the day. Don't know why, it knocks the shite out of my Xbox.

5:33 This may cause epileptic seizures and it may not be suitable for players who has epileptic seizures because of flashing colours/images.

i have this tape ;)

@12:15 ASBO :D

Read error a

we could create an elderrly group !

@quatermano42

5 жыл бұрын

rototo titir Yes lol I m fifty but that does not keep me from playing Fruity Frank or gta v on the pc (caprice32 for Amstrad games)

Syntax error

Type Mismatch

@Diamondblade2008

4 жыл бұрын

Type Mismatch Improper argument NEXT missing Unexpected NEXT Bad command Syntax error Redo from start? Operand missing Line does not exist

@quatermano42

4 жыл бұрын

Diamondblade2008 Print Covid19 Syntax Error

@Diamondblade2008

4 жыл бұрын

@@quatermano42 |fuckoff Covid19 Unknown command Ready

@quatermano42

4 жыл бұрын

Diamondblade2008 On rom station pc you got 148 pages of games like Sentinel with Dos emulator, fantastic!

I insist on my idea, that 90% of the 6128 software is directly from the 464 machine. They also had the same demo and the only difference is that it is faster when running on the 6128....

@miguelvanhove5906

10 жыл бұрын

Nope. 6128 was not faster than 464. It haves only 128ko in place of 64k for the 464. And these 64k mire were not easy to use...

@Misel982001

10 жыл бұрын

Miguel Vanhove but the 64k games play faster on a 6128!

@stevendegreef93

6 жыл бұрын

Misel982001 Same clock speed, same games. No, they don t run faster.

@quatermano42

5 жыл бұрын

GliderDS With a disk reader on my 464 games were loading faster but were not playing faster, would have been 2 good lol

I had a green screen monitor total bollocks

@WinrichNaujoks

3 жыл бұрын

It was great for 80 column mode. Infocom text adventures. Word processing.

No sound?

ugh twas a horrible introduction to the CPC