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Old 07-28-2009, 10:54 AM   #1
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Default Audio Demo Tape that Came with New Amiga?

Hi Folks,

I remember when my friend got his new Amiga way back, not sure if it was a 500 or not. Anyway, he got a cool audio cassette with it that had a really great song on it to demo the audio on the Amiga. I haven't heard it for years and I'm getting nostalgic about it, anyone know where I could listen to it again?

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Old 07-28-2009, 11:14 AM   #2
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Only Amiga Makes it all Possible

write an email if you want a dvd of it.
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Old 07-28-2009, 11:15 AM   #3
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Hi Folks,

I remember when my friend got his new Amiga way back, not sure if it was a 500 or not. Anyway, he got a cool audio cassette with it that had a really great song on it to demo the audio on the Amiga. I haven't heard it for years and I'm getting nostalgic about it, anyone know where I could listen to it again?
That sounds really cool, but AFAIK, NO Amiga's sold in the States came with a demo audio tape. That sounds like some real proactive marketing. The computer for the creative mind wasn't marketed all that creatively here ;-)
Reminds me of that Sharp campaign: From Sharp minds come dull products. lol

In the mean time, there are plenty of mods and digitised Amiga tracks out there to enjoy on your Amiga...
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Old 07-28-2009, 11:26 AM   #4
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That sounds really cool, but AFAIK, NO Amiga's sold in the States came with a demo audio tape. That sounds like some real proactive marketing. The computer for the creative mind wasn't marketed all that creatively here ;-)
Reminds me of that Sharp campaign: From Sharp minds come dull products. lol

In the mean time, there are plenty of mods and digitised Amiga tracks out there to enjoy on your Amiga...
Thank you Save2600. That's interesting. I definetly remember the Amiga branding on this tape and the music kicked so much arse!

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Old 07-28-2009, 02:25 PM   #5
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Only Amiga Makes it all Possible

write an email if you want a dvd of it.
Yeah, don't get me wrong - those video tapes of yore were really awesome, but Nick's talking about an audio cassette of Amiga music. I wonder if Atari ever did anything like that to push the fact they had built in Midi?

But back to Amiga Makes It Possible... that wasn't a pack-in with any of the computers, was it? I remember having to send away for it...
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Old 07-28-2009, 03:41 PM   #6
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Default Re: Audio Demo Tape that Came with New Amiga?

Wow i didn't know they did that either. I remember my Commodore 64 coming with an audio tape when I got it, but that as about it. My first Amiga 500 or subsequent A1200 didn't have anything like that.
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Old 07-29-2009, 01:36 AM   #7
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Well folks I hope I have this all correct and have not confused things through the passage of time. It was at least 15 years ago.

The tape definetly had "Commodore" writen on it. Maybe it could have been the 64 but there was great excitement that he had got the new 500 at the time. It was me putting it together that the cassette came for the new 500 he got and not the 64 he already had....

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Default Re: Audio Demo Tape that Came with New Amiga?

oops yeah sorry i misread your post.
how about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yckH2...x=0&playnext=1
i got mp3 of it, 4mb in size free to you if you want it. the song is pretty cheesy. ;-)
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Old 07-29-2009, 10:22 AM   #9
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oops yeah sorry i misread your post.
how about this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yckH2...x=0&playnext=1
i got mp3 of it, 4mb in size free to you if you want it. the song is pretty cheesy. ;-)
Thanks Nishtek but that's not the one. I came across that one too, "Only Amiga can.....", it is cheesy indeed!

The one I am looking for is all digital, synths and whatnot.

It's getting more and more elusive!



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Default Re: Audio Demo Tape that Came with New Amiga?

It could be on the B-side of a cassette called Toolbox. It came with my C64 I think, and told you how to set up the hardware etc. At the end, the guy says something like "Why don`t you check out the Amiga range from Commodore, amazing graphics, wonderful sound etc etc... You can hear some music made on the Amiga on the other side of this tape"

It was a good tune IIRC. Think I still have the tape somewhere...

Hmmm....
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Thanks Nishtek but that's not the one. I came across that one too, "Only Amiga can.....", it is cheesy indeed!

The one I am looking for is all digital, synths and whatnot.

It's getting more and more elusive!



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Oh... we all know which tape you're lusting after...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uh1Q_D_XU
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Old 07-29-2009, 03:29 PM   #12
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It could be on the B-side of a cassette called Toolbox. It came with my C64 I think, and told you how to set up the hardware etc. At the end, the guy says something like "Why don`t you check out the Amiga range from Commodore, amazing graphics, wonderful sound etc etc... You can hear some music made on the Amiga on the other side of this tape"

It was a good tune IIRC. Think I still have the tape somewhere...

Hmmm....
I think that's the one good Sir!! It's all coming back to me now! Any chance of having a listen off it?

Thank you!

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I think that's the one good Sir!! It's all coming back to me now! Any chance of having a listen off it?

Thank you!

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No sweat, i`ll find hoke out the tape and get it online.
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Old 07-29-2009, 03:43 PM   #14
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Oh... we all know which tape you're lusting after...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6uh1Q_D_XU
My god that's funny. He seems like such a nice guy!

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Old 08-14-2009, 04:33 PM   #15
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I think the music you're looking for is "Shufflepuck Cafe". The music from the this game was included on side B of the Commodore 64's Tool Box Introductory Audio Tape as an example of the Amiga's musical capabilities. I should imagine the music demo was probably the same on the Amiga tape.

Download the Shufflepuck Cafe game by Domark (1989), fire up your Amiga emulator of choice and see if that's the music you mean.
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