Amstrad CPC 464 Welcome Demonstration Cassette ("Welcome To Amsoft") 

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

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

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.

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

Those word processor colours were brutal.

Thanks for the trip back to Xmas day 1984 :)

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.

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)

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 🇮🇪

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

They play the "Home Runner" music in Hell.

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

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

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

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

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

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!!!

Epiiiiiiiiiic!

Where do you find the code for the bomb ?

EPIC !!!!!

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@12:15 ASBO :D

Syntax error

No sound?

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....

i have this tape ;)

I had a green screen monitor total bollocks

ugh twas a horrible introduction to the CPC

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

I had the green monitor… looks amazing in colour

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

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

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.

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

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

we could create an elderrly group !

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)

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.

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