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. ;-)
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 🇮🇪
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.
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.
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)
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!!!
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....
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
I guess I'm quite randomly asking but do anyone know of a good website to stream new movies online ?
@Henrik Arlo lately I have been using FlixZone. Just search on google for it =)
I had the green monitor… looks amazing in colour
The colour combinations in the "Spreadsheet" and "Word Processing" parts are just fantastic! Probably sponsored by he epilepsy organizations.
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
Verdammt, ist Das lange her - und ich kannte beide Seiten - war mir gar nicht mehr bewusst.
Danke, war eine schöne Zeitreise!
Thanks for the trip back to Xmas day 1984 :)
Where have 30 years gone I remember the day we bought this home.
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.
Yep, I used books on c64 basic programming on the abstract. Most worked.
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.
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!
The guy from the Wordhang demo always reminded me of Gregory from Gregory Loses his Clock.
Those word processor colours were brutal.
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 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
Ahead of its time. We STILL havent gotten to Bright Red on Lime Green screens for business productivity!!
Haven't seen this since owning an Amstrad yet I remember it like it was last week... ah the memories
RetroMan HD Time fliiiiiiiiies
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.
PIERORAZIO MARC caprice32 n u get all u need
... lief in den 85'ern jedem Kaufhaus :)
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 🇮🇪
my 1st memory of a computer.
Loading from tape, when you could eat your tea whilst waiting for a game to load (or fail to load)
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.
Another dose of quality buddy, enjoyed that..:)
Read error b
Read error b ... Read error b ... Read error a ... shit
@@aaaooaao9949 How shitty was it to get a read error A or read error B just before the game finished loading...
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.
ha, yeah 6128 had the same thing on disk - this takes me back !
i used to put in the wrong letters on hangman just to watch his little face turn sad! :P
Did you also use to pluck the wings off flies?
They play the "Home Runner" music in Hell.
When i got the machine the last tape i loaded was probably the demonstration :D
Thanks for sharing! The aspect ratio is slightly wrong, as can be seen in parts showing circles, e.g. 03:00 . Good memories anyway!
Lol I remember word hang too. I played that game for ages....
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)
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
Surprise!!! I have it already, till today...
Epiiiiiiiiiic!
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
EPIC !!!!!
5:33 This may cause epileptic seizures and it may not be suitable for players who has epileptic seizures because of flashing colours/images.
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!!!
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.
we could create an elderrly group !
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)
i have this tape ;)
Where do you find the code for the bomb ?
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....
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...
Miguel Vanhove
but the 64k games play faster on a 6128!
Misel982001 Same clock speed, same games. No, they don t run faster.
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
It was great for 80 column mode. Infocom text adventures. Word processing.
Read error a
@12:15 ASBO :D
Type Mismatch
Type Mismatch
Improper argument
NEXT missing
Unexpected NEXT
Bad command
Syntax error
Redo from start?
Operand missing
Line does not exist
Diamondblade2008 Print Covid19 Syntax Error
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Unknown command
Ready
Diamondblade2008 On rom station pc you got 148 pages of games like Sentinel with Dos emulator, fantastic!
Syntax error
Bourne Educational Software 1984 = NOPE
No sound?
ugh twas a horrible introduction to the CPC