Indeed. Almost all with a very eighties style. I really wanted to make this video as a tribute to that first stage, where the samples of pop songs from the 80s were the soundtrack of cracks and intros. That's how I met this wonderful computer. At the house of a good friend who could afford to buy an Amiga imported from the USA in the summer of 1987, when it was not yet sold in Spain and I think, I am not sure about this, that it was not sold in all of Europe either. He showed us all these things and our heads really exploded with what we saw and heard, our imagination ran wild, the mythical Commodore Amiga was born for us :) and of course, we dreamed of one day having this magical computer. But in my case I still had to wait a few years, when the affordable Amiga 500 arrived in Spain :)
Btw, 13:42 This song is familiar to me, I've been with it in my head for several days but I can't identify it. You sound familiar ? Excuse me, if I'm wrong but it seems that she sings in French, maybe?
Made me choke up remembering the days when one could only dream of this magic power machine that seemed to have appeared from the future. Watching these marvels at the more fortunate friends, who's dads could afford to buy them these super expensive monsters, was like out of this world. I can still remember the amazement I felt when I saw the Alpha Flight cracktro the first time and heard that sample. So far from anything the C64 or the Spectrum could offer. Never thought, at that point, I would ever be able to own an Amiga myself since they costed a fortune (which my folks didn't have). Managed to save up the cash and eventually got an A500 in 1989 and then a 1200 in 1993. Kept that one up til 2004 when I gave in and sold it for next to nothing (regret it to this day). Oh well... Thanks for this awesome trip down memory lane ❤️
@@EquinoxeZX Just thought I'd mention, I checked up on the TMB Scoopex channel and found "The Star Frontiers Uridium Demo Amiga Demo". They used the same tune as the Bamiga Sector One & The Kent | Team did at 23:21but at another samplerate. However the sample is taken from the song "Time's up" by Saga from 1981...😄
Thanks for this video. I love some of these early amiga intros. When groups were just starting to get to grips with the power of the Amiga compared to the older 8-bit machines. It takes me back to when I first saw an Amiga and I was blown away by its capabilities.
Thanks for your comment! I love those early Amiga intros too, it's awesome to think about how groups were just starting to push the limits of the machine. Brings back the same memories for me-first time I saw an Amiga, I was blown away by what it could do!
Excellent intro compilation. I didn't know any of these intros. It's very interesting to be able to see them without having to load them one by one on the Amiga 😃 Music takes me back to the 80's when I was just a kid. Thanks for sharing 👍
After these times, in 1988/89 one half of the c64 Dynamic Duo (that is seen in some greetings here) began to crack on the Amiga as Rob/Quartex. I can recall a period in which really most of the titles were cracked by him, all without an intro and just some text displayed. Then after some time their monopoly faded and there were competition and intros again.
32:00 Sounds like a slightly pitched up sample from Hacker II - The Doomsday Papers. 38:40 Reminds me of All throught the night by Cindy Lauper somehow, although it's different. 57:15 Reminds me of Cambodia by Kim Wilde somehow, although it's different. Wow, Live to tell has a wonderfull beginning, well done Patrick Leonard! Nice video, thanks!
Nice video! 00:21:07 and 00:36:33 cover C64 tunes: Yie-Ar Kung Fu II and Comic Bakery. I was surprised by the amount of looped samples, but I guess there weren't many alternatives until Soundtracker came along.
Glad you recognized the C64 tunes at those times. Yeah, AMIGA intros used a lot of looped samples back then until Ultimate Soundtracker and later ones changed the game. Thanks for your feedback!
00:50:09 Starglider (Crack Intro) by The Cosmos Crackers (1987) - Max-Him - Lady Fantasy (sampled by Martin Aberle from Kingsoft for the Game Cruncher Factory)
@@Tone--hs7ds I don't understand what you mean here. The sample from 'Winter Games' is identified. Perhaps you are referring to another part of the video?
As indicated in description "Sample 'Beach Scene' by Tangerine Dream". The sample is taken from theme "Beach Scene" ruclips.net/video/Upf4YwGq9_4/видео.html Thanks for commenting!
Hmm, although the rhythmic base is very similar, I notice some differences that make me doubt if it's a loop sample taken from the track you mentioned. I'll investigate. Thank you very much for the contribution.
@@adrianhendy Okay, in the absence of a version that matches exactly, I've listened to several remixes and versions, for now, I'll keep it as a sample loop of the original song you mentioned. Thank you very much.
intros that use module files or similar 00:21:07 ► Jinxter (Crack Intro) by The General (1987) - Music Dr. Nobody 00:26:46 ► HQC Cruncher v2.0 Intro by High Quality Crackings (1987) Music by Karsten Obarski 00:36:33 ► Defender of The Crown (Crack Intro) by High Quality Crackings (1986) - Music by Dr. Nobody 00:48:01 ► Cool 87 Intro by High Quality Crackings (1987) (Unknown) 00:55:02 ► Bad Cat (Crack Intro) by Unit A (1987) - Music by Chris Hülsbeck 00:56:03 ► Feud (Crack Intro) by Fairlight (1987) Music by Orbit 01:03:31 ► Destroyer (Crack Intro) by Bamiga Sector One & The Kent Team (1987) Music by Karsten Obarski ( thank you equinoxeZX!!! )
00:21:07 ► Jinxter (Crack Intro) by The General (1987) - Music Dr. Nobody 00:48:01 ► Cool 87 Intro by High Quality Crackings (1987) (Unknown) 00:55:02 ► Bad Cat (Crack Intro) by Unit A (1987) - Music by Chris Hülsbeck 00:56:03 ► Feud (Crack Intro) by Fairlight (1987) Music by Orbit The authorship of certain MODs, as well as the origin of specific samples, is yet to be identified. Any contributions in this matter are appreciated.
These are like beginner tutorials for coding, I can do copperlists, release it.I can do bobs/sprites/rasters/tiling, release it. I know, I went through that phase learning to code on the Amiga. Fascinating to watch, especially if you can find an early coder from the late 80's through to the 90's and see their progression and innovation. And those bloody ST-00 instruments ha
It might seem easy nowadays, but it's not for beginners back in 1986/1987 when there was barely 1% of the technical information available about the Amiga that we have at our hands today. Those who created these 'small' intros back then were raw explorers of a machine about which very little was known. I love intros with looped samples of well-known songs from that era and i love the ST-00 instruments. All of this managed to captivate many people with the Amiga and laid the groundwork without which we would be telling a different story about this computer.
@@EquinoxeZXExactly - you had ZERO internet so we were all learning from manuals and looking at other coder's intros/demos to see how stuff was being done.
I learned asm from using Rossi monitor to look at code and change it to see what happened. I ordered a copy of the famous hardware book at the library and I think they got one about 5 years later!
@@EquinoxeZXtrue. Still to be fair. From the release of the Amiga along was published the hardware ref manuals that was amazing and layout all the hardware features with example code. So it’s was more that we did knew how to use the hardware than we did not know how the hardware worked. 😅
Great complilation!! i am still looking for an old cracktro with samples from the song "Its as sin" Does anyone have an idea of which group this was made by?
If you could provide more information such as the year or the game for which the cracktro was made, perhaps it could be found... With just that information, it's very complicated. Let's see if someone who knew it remembers. Thank you for your comment.
@@EquinoxeZX it's the " Logic Works (Crack Intro)". I remember this audio, play on a hifi with 2 big speaker. I came from a C64, and i have buy a ST last month ago i saw this : it's unbelivable.
@@chrisophieandre Oh, that demo for the time had incredibly smooth scrolling that hasn't even been seen in games yet. Also the sample loop has very good quality. The Atari when the Amiga was released became "obsolete" very quickly. It was a good computer but the comparison with the Amiga hurt it a lot.
Wow. How did you show such a crisp and clean scrolling? 60 Hz are ok, but the music still sounds like 50 Hz... This is so amazing... How did you do that?
Does anyone know where the music at 00:23:21 ► Mercenary: Escape from Targ and The Second City (Crack Intro) by Bamiga Sector One & The Kent | Team (1987) is sampled from?
@@HaquinusDeGothia Thanks alot i never thought i would find the song ever! That sample is just fantastic! Was impossible to find using Shazam on the phone because the sample quality was too low.
@@HaquinusDeGothia Fantastic i have waited for almost my whole life to get to know the name of the song that was in Bamiga Sector One & The Kent Team Cracktro! I thought it would never happen. Shazam app could not find it because the sample quality was too low.
Super vidéo, on reconnait bien le style du début. C'est fou le nombre de cracktro qui utilisaient un sample entier joué en boucle
Indeed. Almost all with a very eighties style.
I really wanted to make this video as a tribute to that first stage, where the samples of pop songs from the 80s were the soundtrack of cracks and intros. That's how I met this wonderful computer. At the house of a good friend who could afford to buy an Amiga imported from the USA in the summer of 1987, when it was not yet sold in Spain and I think, I am not sure about this, that it was not sold in all of Europe either. He showed us all these things and our heads really exploded with what we saw and heard, our imagination ran wild, the mythical Commodore Amiga was born for us :) and of course, we dreamed of one day having this magical computer. But in my case I still had to wait a few years, when the affordable Amiga 500 arrived in Spain :)
Btw, 13:42 This song is familiar to me, I've been with it in my head for several days but I can't identify it.
You sound familiar ? Excuse me, if I'm wrong but it seems that she sings in French, maybe?
@@EquinoxeZX nice story :)
@@AlexMenchi Thanks :)
@@EquinoxeZX You're welcome :) thank you for making me rediscover this cracktro
Made me choke up remembering the days when one could only dream of this magic power machine that seemed to have appeared from the future. Watching these marvels at the more fortunate friends, who's dads could afford to buy them these super expensive monsters, was like out of this world. I can still remember the amazement I felt when I saw the Alpha Flight cracktro the first time and heard that sample. So far from anything the C64 or the Spectrum could offer. Never thought, at that point, I would ever be able to own an Amiga myself since they costed a fortune (which my folks didn't have). Managed to save up the cash and eventually got an A500 in 1989 and then a 1200 in 1993. Kept that one up til 2004 when I gave in and sold it for next to nothing (regret it to this day). Oh well... Thanks for this awesome trip down memory lane ❤️
I am glad that this video has served to bring you such good memories. My experience doesn't differ much from yours :)
Thanks for your comment.
@@EquinoxeZX Just thought I'd mention, I checked up on the TMB Scoopex channel and found "The Star Frontiers Uridium Demo Amiga Demo". They used the same tune as the Bamiga Sector One & The Kent | Team did at 23:21but at another samplerate. However the sample is taken from the song "Time's up" by Saga from 1981...😄
@@HaquinusDeGothia Hey, awesome input. I'll update the description when I get back from vacation
Thanks a lot!
Those were the days
Wow! Some lovely Amiga archeology 🤩
Thanks. Greetings from Poland 🙌
Thank you for watching.
I'm glad you enjoyed it ✌
@@EquinoxeZX of course. We had strong demoscene in Poland in the 90's. In the 80s we had socialism 🤭
Some amazing music in here!
Thanks for this video. I love some of these early amiga intros. When groups were just starting to get to grips with the power of the Amiga compared to the older 8-bit machines. It takes me back to when I first saw an Amiga and I was blown away by its capabilities.
Thanks for your comment!
I love those early Amiga intros too, it's awesome to think about how groups were just starting to push the limits of the machine. Brings back the same memories for me-first time I saw an Amiga, I was blown away by what it could do!
Excellent intro compilation. I didn't know any of these intros. It's very interesting to be able to see them without having to load them one by one on the Amiga 😃 Music takes me back to the 80's when I was just a kid. Thanks for sharing 👍
You're lucky. I was already a young man with revolutionized hormones in the 80s :)
Neat little slice of early demoscene history. This pre-Soundtracker 'looping sample' era is super obscure! Thanks for the upload.
Yes, it is quite dark, but it has its charm. Or maybe it's just the nostalgia of having lived it :)
Thanks for comment.
Some fun stuff going on there. Lots of sample loops but great for the time. Great days!
11:30 Night Shift sample. Nice! These intros are a real treat. Thanks for compiling them.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the intros. It was a pleasure to compile them. Cheers!
After these times, in 1988/89 one half of the c64 Dynamic Duo (that is seen in some greetings here) began to crack on the Amiga as Rob/Quartex. I can recall a period in which really most of the titles were cracked by him, all without an intro and just some text displayed. Then after some time their monopoly faded and there were competition and intros again.
My old schoolmate Robin (nowadays a professor in CH :-) ).. good times in Dortmund .. QTX arrogance was next to none *lol*
You dig very deep to find out these oldies!
So many that I had not seen, thank you for this upload! :)
You're welcome. Thx for comment!
*Wow. This is ALOT of work!*
and collecting. Thank you sooo much for this!!
You're welcome. Thanks for your feedback!
Thanks for the upload, this is great
Thanks for your comment!
32:00 Sounds like a slightly pitched up sample from Hacker II - The Doomsday Papers.
38:40 Reminds me of All throught the night by Cindy Lauper somehow, although it's different.
57:15 Reminds me of Cambodia by Kim Wilde somehow, although it's different.
Wow, Live to tell has a wonderfull beginning, well done Patrick Leonard! Nice video, thanks!
Wew, takes me back... nice 1 for the upload! - >Frostbyte/Freestyle UK - Meltdown/Ecstasy
Funny to see, that there was no Music Tracker in 86-87. So they all sampled fragments from famous songs... 🙂
Nice video! 00:21:07 and 00:36:33 cover C64 tunes: Yie-Ar Kung Fu II and Comic Bakery. I was surprised by the amount of looped samples, but I guess there weren't many alternatives until Soundtracker came along.
Glad you recognized the C64 tunes at those times. Yeah, AMIGA intros used a lot of looped samples back then until Ultimate Soundtracker and later ones changed the game.
Thanks for your feedback!
Nice compilation.
00:50:09 Starglider (Crack Intro) by The Cosmos Crackers (1987) - Max-Him - Lady Fantasy (sampled by Martin Aberle from Kingsoft for the Game Cruncher Factory)
00:53:46 Dirmaster v1.1 (Crack Intro) by Bitstoppers (1987) - "Our Darkness" - by Anne Clark
01:02:00 Break! (Crack Intro) by Unit A (1987) - "Rambo 2" by Jerry Goldsmith (seems not to be the Original, but is the melody)
01:06:12 Winter Games (Crack Intro) by Longjourney Inc. (1986)
Superb contribution. Very good what you said about Rambo 2, as it is another version. Excellent musical ear :)
Thanks a lot!!
@@Tone--hs7ds I don't understand what you mean here. The sample from 'Winter Games' is identified.
Perhaps you are referring to another part of the video?
awesome compilation.. most of them i knew but the rest.. thx for this one!
I'm glad you like it. Thx for watching!
Great compilation thank you /rygar
@17:12 sample from Tangerine Dream / Thief OST
As indicated in description "Sample 'Beach Scene' by Tangerine Dream". The sample is taken from theme "Beach Scene"
ruclips.net/video/Upf4YwGq9_4/видео.html
Thanks for commenting!
Bitstoppers is a sample of Dr. Beat by Miami Sound Machine
Hmm, although the rhythmic base is very similar, I notice some differences that make me doubt if it's a loop sample taken from the track you mentioned. I'll investigate.
Thank you very much for the contribution.
@@EquinoxeZX tis from one of the (many) remixes but I cannot remember which one
@@adrianhendy Okay, in the absence of a version that matches exactly, I've listened to several remixes and versions, for now, I'll keep it as a sample loop of the original song you mentioned. Thank you very much.
intros that use module files or similar
00:21:07 ► Jinxter (Crack Intro) by The General (1987) - Music Dr. Nobody
00:26:46 ► HQC Cruncher v2.0 Intro by High Quality Crackings (1987) Music by Karsten Obarski
00:36:33 ► Defender of The Crown (Crack Intro) by High Quality Crackings (1986) - Music by Dr. Nobody
00:48:01 ► Cool 87 Intro by High Quality Crackings (1987) (Unknown)
00:55:02 ► Bad Cat (Crack Intro) by Unit A (1987) - Music by Chris Hülsbeck
00:56:03 ► Feud (Crack Intro) by Fairlight (1987) Music by Orbit
01:03:31 ► Destroyer (Crack Intro) by Bamiga Sector One & The Kent Team (1987) Music by Karsten Obarski
( thank you equinoxeZX!!! )
00:21:07 ► Jinxter (Crack Intro) by The General (1987) - Music Dr. Nobody
00:48:01 ► Cool 87 Intro by High Quality Crackings (1987) (Unknown)
00:55:02 ► Bad Cat (Crack Intro) by Unit A (1987) - Music by Chris Hülsbeck
00:56:03 ► Feud (Crack Intro) by Fairlight (1987) Music by Orbit
The authorship of certain MODs, as well as the origin of specific samples, is yet to be identified. Any contributions in this matter are appreciated.
@@EquinoxeZX thank you very much for filling the list out, i wrote mines in a hurry because i felt lazy at the time, haha
These are like beginner tutorials for coding, I can do copperlists, release it.I can do bobs/sprites/rasters/tiling, release it. I know, I went through that phase learning to code on the Amiga. Fascinating to watch, especially if you can find an early coder from the late 80's through to the 90's and see their progression and innovation. And those bloody ST-00 instruments ha
It might seem easy nowadays, but it's not for beginners back in 1986/1987 when there was barely 1% of the technical information available about the Amiga that we have at our hands today. Those who created these 'small' intros back then were raw explorers of a machine about which very little was known.
I love intros with looped samples of well-known songs from that era and i love the ST-00 instruments.
All of this managed to captivate many people with the Amiga and laid the groundwork without which we would be telling a different story about this computer.
@@EquinoxeZXExactly - you had ZERO internet so we were all learning from manuals and looking at other coder's intros/demos to see how stuff was being done.
I learned asm from using Rossi monitor to look at code and change it to see what happened. I ordered a copy of the famous hardware book at the library and I think they got one about 5 years later!
@@EquinoxeZXtrue. Still to be fair. From the release of the Amiga along was published the hardware ref manuals that was amazing and layout all the hardware features with example code.
So it’s was more that we did knew how to use the hardware than we did not know how the hardware worked. 😅
Thank you for the video.
You're welcome. Thanks for comment.
Die meisten Crackergruppen gibts ja schon lange nicht mehr 🥸
Great complilation!! i am still looking for an old cracktro with samples from the song "Its as sin" Does anyone have an idea of which group this was made by?
If you could provide more information such as the year or the game for which the cracktro was made, perhaps it could be found...
With just that information, it's very complicated. Let's see if someone who knew it remembers.
Thank you for your comment.
The kent Team, the first intro i have see on Amiga 1000, before the A500 born, but after i buy a Atari ST. Very hard to find info on this intro
I saw all these cracktros and intros on A1000 too.
There are three intros from The Kent Team in the video. Which of them are you referring to?
@@EquinoxeZX it's the " Logic Works (Crack Intro)". I remember this audio, play on a hifi with 2 big speaker. I came from a C64, and i have buy a ST last month ago i saw this : it's unbelivable.
@@chrisophieandre Oh, that demo for the time had incredibly smooth scrolling that hasn't even been seen in games yet. Also the sample loop has very good quality.
The Atari when the Amiga was released became "obsolete" very quickly. It was a good computer but the comparison with the Amiga hurt it a lot.
Wow. How did you show such a crisp and clean scrolling? 60 Hz are ok, but the music still sounds like 50 Hz... This is so amazing... How did you do that?
Thanks!
Most of these early intros are designed for NTSC systems, so I only had to run them on an NTSC Amiga and record them with a high bitrate.
Does anyone know where the music at 00:23:21 ► Mercenary: Escape from Targ and The Second City (Crack Intro) by Bamiga Sector One & The Kent | Team (1987) is sampled from?
"Time's up" by Saga from 1981 (just discovered it today 😆 "The things you find at TMB Scoopex...." 😂
@@HaquinusDeGothia Thanks alot i never thought i would find the song ever! That sample is just fantastic! Was impossible to find using Shazam on the phone because the sample quality was too low.
@@HaquinusDeGothia Fantastic i have waited for almost my whole life to get to know the name of the song that was in Bamiga Sector One & The Kent Team Cracktro! I thought it would never happen. Shazam app could not find it because the sample quality was too low.