THE AMIGA CRACKTRO MARATHON (PART 1 of 4)

[@ZEUSDAZ]

THE AMIGA CRACKTRO MARATHON (PART 2 of 4): kzbin.info/www/bejne/aoDZcnSgZb2Jac0 THE AMIGA CRACKTRO MARATHON (PART 3 of 4): kzbin.info/www/bejne/gl7Pp62IetCmr6s THE AMIGA CRACKTRO MARATHON (PART 4 of 4): kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJuZeGl7otZqjsk

[@sun-zk6je]

WIR SIND DEUTSCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WIR KENNEN DAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@sun-zk6je]

UND ENDLESS PIRACY AUS DEUTSCHLAND ARE GAYS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JinxyZombieHyperdrive]

You're a legend. Thank you so much

[@EvilCensor]

The good old days where the "cracktro" was in cases the *only* reason to insert that disk :)

[@MrFurious_666]

Often better than the game :p

[@zenithquasar9623]

Amount of the times where I would do this is countless!

[@daniel1112417]

@@MrFurious_666 I have to agree with this

[@LupoAndy]

True!

[@gaymothaunt]

a lot of the time the cracktro would have more impressive technical feats going on than the game ever did, it was hilarious

[@ZEUSDAZ]

This was my own compilation which took me a long time in the making to do. I had to load every amiga cracked game i have, record them, edit them so it would be smooth to watch and finally convert and upload it, 4 hours of it!

[@chrisyuri4187]

Thank you for your service Unironically though thanks man

[@damocles5047]

i salute you sir, what a legendary move!

[@ZEUSDAZ]

@@damocles5047 Thank you.

[@alfomo6670]

@@ZEUSDAZ here, you dropped this king 👑

[@setsers1]

Thanks for your service, Matey.

[@RogueBoyScout]

What I loved about my Amiga days... The community it built. By that I mean for me the schoolyard. It brought people together to copy games for each other. In a society now where it's all about getting "likes" and "shares", the irony is social media is kinda anti-social. Back then, you took time out of your day to copy games for other people, and they would respond in kind. Yes, there was a personal benefit for you, but if you lived in those days, I guess you know what I mean...

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Magical days, especially seeing a huge jiffy bag on your doorstep full of Amiga disks (sorry Police, I didn't mention anything about copied games cough cough).

[@VK2FVAX]

Was the same here in Australia :) Couple of friends would use it as an excuse to drop around "Here.. I brought you a copy of XYZ.. it's amazeballs! Lets try it on your system". Five of us sitting on a kids bed staring at a tiny 12" telly. Taking turns at something. Having a ball. Then feeling guilty and saving chore money to buy a copy because we liked it enough to keep and wanted the manual.

[@mystsnake]

irony even bigger is that you mention community (which is alluded to being positive) while mentioning how you rampantly practiced pirating which is antisocial behaviour and hence a negative, not that I personally care what anyone does, just pointing out the contradiction but you're right about the scourge that is 'social media', misinformation, ganging up online to bully others while acting like they're in the right, clicking report buttons on peoples kids picture as 'inappropriate' just cause they are not 100% normal looking and the general trend to people that spend the day on their phone looking at others life's

[@VK2FVAX]

@@AA-bh3bz Yeah yeah.. how else did you get something to dump with the freezer cart and disassemble so you could copy the thing...?

[@MarkTDKKnight]

Quite a few of my old chippies in this compilation :D

[@alexcraxton9337]

Mark Knight also one of my old chip tunes called Anthrox 5 on here, looong time since I heard that though probably wrote it around the time Ipec Elite vaporised

[@tubeMonger]

I had a couple tunes there as well.

[@brostenen]

I think you mean mod music and not chip tune.

[@brostenen]

@Brad Allen Nope i do not realise it. All I know is that it have always been mod-files, since I experienced it for the first time in 1991, when I was 14 years old at that time. I know a mod-file compared to a C64/OPL chip tune, when I hear them. I am like, lets call a spoon for a spoon and fork for a fork kind of man. That the way you refer to things over time have changed, is a completely different thing. 😉

[@LERobbo]

@@brostenen To my knowledge chiptune was a style of music, MOD a file format. So a chiptune could very well be a MOD.

[@JinxyZombieHyperdrive]

Still can't get enough of these Cracktros. The nostalgia this brings is indescribable !

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Yep those were the days.

[@Georgiahulse]

I come to these videos to hear these intros and the nostalgia really is powerful. Takes me back to a completely different time with warm fuzzy memories!

[@BorysPomianek]

Such a time specific culture when you think about it - not a simple fad at all but also never went mainstream unlike many other things people used to do in the dark corners of distant irc channels and bb groups back in the day.

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

IDK, many modern cracks still have this kind of music in them ;)

[@ppate8]

Electronic music

[@codewiz]

I love the Skid Row cracktro tune starting at 2:49:36... They were among my favorite pirate crews on the Amiga scene :-)

[@uEUJfpex]

30+ years later I still love the Skid Row cracktros and that tune.

[@GG-rm6hd]

Legend!

[@MpjV]

Damn is that 4mat - Lff ?? I love 4mat chiptunes

[@analogmoz]

4mat is the absolute best.

[@GhostLeeds]

For real

[@Battledrone]

Back in the days I loved these intros more than the games themselves. Now I still do! Thanks for compiling them!

[@slappytheclown4]

God I love shit like this. Im only 27 so i missed this era entirely but I just love seeing old stuff from the piracy scene as it existed back in the day.

[@SgtSlapmaster]

What a great video. This should be in a museum, imagine if all these wonderful efforts were lost forever!

[@setsers1]

Agreed

[@szlkok]

2:25:40 I remember that song from my childhood. I still had it in mind past a whole time. Thanks that I can hear it again

[@Stevieboy74]

47:21 - Paranoimia Super Cars. Music called 'Elsewhere' - I used to load this up just to listen to this awesome tune. A close second for me is the musc used on the Horizon cracktros. Take me back the good old days!

[@TheFlazak]

I enjoy these cracktros nowadays more than the games themselves ! Games move on but the music does not.

[@DetectiveOnan]

I remember that sometimes I left my Amiga on the cracktro playing for hours, instead of going to the game. Many times the cracktro was 100+ times better than the game itself :P

[@Injectz]

This takes me back....... As a 10 year old back then... We appreciated the artistry behind these crack intros...... The graphics and animation yes... But the soundtracks were incredible ❤

[@Revelation13-8]

the intros was the best , respect to those who made them , enjoyed them alot back in the days , thanks again for the games and music.

[@sandakureva]

I remember seeing quite a few of these on my dad's computer back in the day.

[@Mitzi-chan224]

Same

[@Monler-0]

The tune at 1:06:41 brings the most nostalgia for me. Used to have a cracked copy of Zool that had that playing on the trainer. I would put the disk in just to listen to it, and it's been in my head ever since. - so good to hear it again, after all these years.

[@intrepidis1]

Sounds like Golden Axe at the start. 😊

[@mosheyosef386]

I've been loving this since 2015. Some of them from my childhood.

[@ujustgotpwned2008]

When I was a kid so many of my brother's Amiga games had intros like this I thought they were just part of the released product.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Quite a few cases where the cracktro music was better than the games It'self.

[@trashmetalzoetermeer]

The tune at 2:34:00 is a cover from The Droids - The Force :) Great tune, searched many years for this one. Another masterpiece in this marathon is from Skid Row, they used a cover from Electricity by OMD

[@da5e]

Thanks for this! Nothing beats hardware. This is the sound of my childhood!

[@MikBaa]

Excellent collection, was a huge fan of these audio visual programming delights when I was a young Amiga user. Crystal 3 (1:34:40) remains my favourite music from back then 😁👌

[@JinxyZombieHyperdrive]

November 2020 ! Still here listening !

[@ZEUSDAZ]

lol, good to know :-)

[@rich_edwards79]

Love this, thanks for the upload and trip down memory lane! Takes me right back to the early 90s and swapping games in the playground at middle school. Pity some of the games didn't live up to the cracktro music. I loved electronic music at the time, all my friends were into metal but I lived for rave and euro dance and you can hear the influence in so many of the tunes. Hard to believe it was almost 30 years ago! Where did the time go and when did I get old :(

[@bringmeheadofbill1226]

Yes, those memories... it was magical time, looking back now. I remember rainy afternoons, running back to home with some copied diskettes, after long and boring school day. They dont make computers like that anymore.

[@MDMister]

Been listening to these for years, thank you for your hard work.

[@probierstand]

The first song is the best...

[@jaycee1980]

mod.echoing i believe it is called

[@Kevin-jb2pv]

2:52:16 is my fav so far, I think.

[@CaptainNow2]

6 people have no idea about gaming history.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

+Wayne Ashworth It's a sad thing :-(

[@scramrp]

+Wayne Ashworth 7 dumb assholes :-)

[@bangerbangerbro]

Arjen Schumacher Zuckerberg is an idiot though

[@bangerbangerbro]

Wayne Ashworth Or had a console.

[@ShallRemainUnknown]

Much more than just gaming history; an entirely new grassroots multimedia artform & subculture...

[@LarsBorris]

This is so freaking awesom dude! This basicly sums up my entire childhood. Good times man, good times.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Well if you like this, then you may wanna take a look at my Amiga top 75 music countdown :-)

[@tsk-meteakabruceleekills1311]

The 1st track is legend!

[@TheDarkNikolai1]

59:02 absolute banger

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Cool.

[@paoloadrianobruno]

Thx for the upload! Have had the Slipstream cracktro melody in my head for the last 20 years without finding it. And here it is. Now i can die in peace :) Thx a lot!

[@landediluvian]

Oh, this is the perfect soundtrack for getting work done. I still get super pumped listening to this stuff, as if I was still anticipating a game, haha! Thanks for putting all this together, awesome work!

[@XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX757]

Very nice compilation, and kudos for your efforts in making this compilation. Those were the days when I enjoyed the cracktros more than most of the games that were attached to them ;-D

[@lk-music]

Some of these are a total blast from the past!

[@alichinogaming6089]

OMG, 49:55 cracktro for VROOM is sooo out of this planet!

[@GG-rm6hd]

One of the best cracktro sound! I was looking for this comment.

[@MarkMerkens1]

Awesome compilation, thanx for this nostalgic trip. I have better memories of the cracktro's and demo's than of the games themselves.

[@MarkMerkens1]

Haha, eigenlijk zitten luisteren het meest .. wat een momentje met mijn jeugd was dat

[@nszeba2]

Prestige's (2:25:39) cracktro is my favorite! Those times...

[@richardholland9026]

I love the skidrow cracktro coded by dan/anarchy at 2:49:39, pretty sure i got a converted pc version somewhere on my pc with sourcecode.The music in particular is pretty catchy .

[@turbolenza35]

Amazing work, thank you so much for spending time on this!

[@edwardseymour4691]

The feeling of optimism that these pirate tunes evoke is so remarkable.

[@hazardbalt7319]

How many times did I let the intros run for the music, actually I didn't play games that much back then, I mostly liked demos and Swapping

[@AaronAzan1979]

I'd feel blessed that it's even been compiled...... Grab WinUAE, grab the ADF's, and record! It's a big job. Hats off to @ZEUSDAZ .

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Very kind, comments like that keep me doing this channel, cheers. Don't forget to check out parts II & III also of this marathon.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

"AMIGA CRACKTRO MARATHON II" WILL BE COMING SOON!!!

[@SalMightyOne]

Damn Zeus you did well! So many memories passed by watching this, almost brought tears in my eyes!

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Very happy you enjoyed it :-)

[@ZEUSDAZ]

The sequel is on it's way, i'm busy getting my 500th upload ready which i've been looking forward to, then i will upload Marathon II.

[@lellereb]

I was so waiting for Horizon to turn up, and at 18:15 there we were :) Great collection this, highly appreciated. // Rebel - Horizon

[@doncasterrunner]

Best into tune ever lol, love it. Use to fire up the Amiga just to play this

[@pelimies1818]

Yeah, quality stuff.

[@TheRealKaiProton]

At least 2021 has some good points, I can listen to these fully while working, the days are not a total loss.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Try my Amiga marathon :-)

[@TheRealKaiProton]

@@ZEUSDAZ Already do, and have, and will again Im sure :-)

[@ZEUSDAZ]

No problem, glad you like it. Don't forget to check out part 2.

[@thedesertspider6238]

HORIZON(18:14) Thunder Cross - First Attack

[@MhLiMz]

That's odd: the first song in this video I know from the intro by "World of Wonders" as they presented their cracked copy of "Twin World". Amazing how I remember that after over 30 years... :-?

[@richardogden9545]

This is brilliant! Thanks for timestamping everything. Nostalgic overload!

[@martinflashgordon]

fantastic sounds, I go back in time, childhood days, priceless

[@AlkisGR]

It's great that you compiled all these intros, so many great intros... so good that many times we ended up watching and listening to them for a long time before loading the actual game... Or let them run while we were doing something else! Many thanks for these videos.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Glad you enjoyed them, don't forget parts 2,3 & 4 :-)

[@Revelation13-8]

I dont care about the music , thanks to all the cracked games u guys provided us whole 80ies and 90ies !

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Naught naught!,...guilty as charged (with a guilty look on my face).

[@ZEUSDAZ]

There's only so much you can do with the original hardware and that's before youtube does it's compression deal to them, only full screen will it look low bit-rate, the smaller screens seem ok enough, certainly watchable. Part II on it's way soon after my 500th upload which will be coming.

[@cwxdaf152]

This is amazing mate, thanks for putting it together. I might use it to unwind when I'm stressed, it's remarkably soothing with the nostalgia chemicals coursing through me.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Enjoy!

[@KERMiTtehDOG]

Brings back some memories. I wish the scene was still this kewl.

[@Taneuma_563]

1:31:40 sounds like something straight out of Mr.Gimmick and Cocoron.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

No problem, glad it's been such a hit hence why i did 2 more parts to this.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Thanks very much, was a bit annoyed as i accidently left a space of 5 seconds of workbench screen at 2:58:02 between 2 cracktros, annoyed i missed this small edit after all my editing, was thinking about re-uploading it but that would mean i lose all comments and views when deleting this one :-/ Sorry to everyone for this small error in editing,...it was a big upload after all :-/

[@TheVincent1977]

The tune used in the Oracle cracktro does what it's supposed to do .. rocking that cracktro!

[@Sleepysidney]

Champion!!!! Takes me back to my scened days with the most fondest of memories Thank you kind sir for a truly special upload.

[@andrer4508]

wow i remember intro to pinball dreams 2. it was sooo good.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Very happy these are pleasing gamers of the past and present, yes it took some doing but i enjoyed doing it. Look out for my 500th upload coming soon, still a secret to what game and machine / console it will be.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Glad you like it mate, please spread it to anyone who may enjoy it and my channel.

[@BixenteFabregas]

Conqueror and Zike intro is an amiga remix of Chris Hülsbeck legendary "Shades" tune, and anthrox is a remix of "Wizardry", both composed originally for the c-64!

[@raizor5]

Thanks for putting this together, really looking forward to part 2 :)

[@Drachenreiterklaus]

Thank you thousand times for your great work! I love the amiga and have so much great memories with this machine.

[@chrisyuri4187]

(23:25), PRODIGY oh my God I'm in love, this tune has that one note that's from a old classic song or abba lol sorta sounds like the one tune from Abba SOS song, love it

[@supper_e1823]

(My favorites list) 0:05 7:27 10:48 13:06 16:10 20:38 23:25 40:43 43:12 49:55 54:19 56:20 59:04 1:06:42 1:15:43 1:18:35 1:29:32 1:31:40 1:34:40 1:40:37 1:44:57 1:50:16 1:54:54 2:20:41 2:23:15 2:36:07 3:03:31 3:09:32 3:11:20 3:32:05 3:35:17 3:40:26

[@Smraedis]

My fav is 13:09, especially the part at 14:43

[@myself248]

First step, acquire flux capacitor. Then, possibly more difficult, acquire a mint-condition 1983 DMC-12. Combine the two. Go back to the early 90s and look at the computers people were actually using, and compare to the title of this video. Thanks, man! Best laugh I've had in weeks.

[@Gringlebon]

Thanks for putting this together. So many memories.

[@JohnnyPope]

YEA!! I remember so many of these - The Paradox tune at 3:00:26 is sweet! A lot of the time the crack intro music was better than the games :-)

[@rogerwennstrom6677]

A bit late to the party, but the music is from the intro of the game Leavin' Teramis. (a conversion from the Atari ST) Take a listen here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aH7cfZWBprZ4r5Y

[@ZEUSDAZ]

You're welcome, part II on it's way soon.

[@lastofdafast]

3:45:16 is my fucking JAM

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Wasn't this stolen from Battle Squadron in-game music?! ;-)

[@lastofdafast]

I wish I knew! Sadly, this was a bit before my time. That being said, I still have the BIGGEST appreciation for this art! Collecting cracktros has grown into one of my favorite hobbies. :D

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Thanks bud, took a lot of work, hope it gets round the net quickly. I'll be putting up all the crack names and their start times asap.

[@BarrySlisk]

1:25 -> 1:28 puts me into a trance. When Amiga and C64 is best it beats everything else.

[@andyb9675]

This might be ten years old, but daymn brother... great job compiling all these! Some of these cracked screens had better music and graphics than many of the games themselves 😂

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Thank you.

[@RatsG123]

I'm looking for an Amiga crack/loader which had a fireworks display. Basically sky rockets going off and exploding with tunes playing. This was around 1992/1993. Any ideas? Thanks

[@JunkyardSam]

You, sir, have OUTSTANDING taste in music. Thanks for putting this together! I grew up with a C64 and always wanted an Amiga but my parents couldn't afford it. We had some financial hard times around that era... I missed out on some incredible music apparently!

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Many thanks, I have a "retro game music" section which if you scroll down my main youtube channel page you will see the section, from ZX Spectrum music marathons to amiga music marathons, a 12hr C64 cracktro marathon and many more, enjoy :-) Please sub if you enjoy the channel :-D

[@JunkyardSam]

I subscribed! Thanks again!!!

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Cool :-)

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Nope, they are all recorded in superior PAL but sadly i forgot to click the "keep original ratio" icon on the divx converter thus 2 inches on some of the uploads are missing from the bottom of the screen...ACCESSION for instance, i will be including that cracktro again on the upcoming AMIGA CRACKTRO MARATHON II and will make sure i click the box before converting.

[@PengPuffPutt]

Anyone knows the name of the song from the Conqueror & Zike "Continental Cirkus" Cracktro (16:10)? Can´t get it out of my head! Amazing!

[@VastyVastyVoid]

@Peter Ljungstrand Is it your own rendition of the C64 tune? It's a really neat remix.

[@VastyVastyVoid]

@Peter Ljungstrand Aha, I see. Makes sense that it would retain the same vibe then.

[@AdriftForWeeks]

Thanks for the response mate. An interview with someone who was in a group during the late 80s/early 90s would be ideal. Thanks for the suggestions, though I need to base most of my research on academic papers, wikipedia is unfortunately not accepted as a good source. I'll prowl some of the online forums too! Cheers again for the support :)

[@johnbeer4963]

i love you for posting this. I'm only 30 minutes in but haven't heard any i recognise from the olden days yet. YET. I might post again when i do recognise one. They're all good even though i don't recognise them. Lol

[@johnbeer4963]

VISION FACTORY

[@ZEUSDAZ]

No problem, just spread the channel :-)

[@Philtho]

I miss these days SO MUCH. Staying up until 4am chatting with people and swapping warez, sharing numbers and secret codes. War dialers for days. Amiga community best community.

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Yep sadly days that won't be duplicated but It's still going strong on the retro scene :-)

[@pycur]

That's impressive! You captured all these from real hardware. You are my insane friend! :D

[@ZEUSDAZ]

I did indeed.

[@amigalemming]

59:04 This is a demo song of the SonicArranger.

[@thesir1215]

amigalemming thanks

[@tubeMonger]

You had some cool tunes on some pretty cool crack intros.

[@Starredmediasoft]

47:22 I was looking for this for so long

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Yes, a few of the cracktro's are missing an inch at the bottom, i forgot to click the "keep original ratio" icon when i was converting, the Accession cracktro is featured again on marathon part 2, this time in all it's full ratio glory :-)

[@akaTheWilyFox]

20:38 is the one I remember, well the tune anyway. I'm sure I remember a more vibrant screen going on. Anyway thanks for the vids you've earned a subscriber!

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Much appreciated, glad you enjoyed it so much, if you like this then you may like my top 75 amiga countdown,...kzbin.info/www/bejne/bKO9Zaebg9qap5o.

[@akaTheWilyFox]

Already ahead of you. I so miss my Amiga, I'll never forgive the family member that threw my Amiga, Commodore Monitor and some 500 games away at the dump. I'd love to buy another Amiga, but prices are keen right now. Well luckily theres emulation so I can at least get some enjoyment back in my life....

[@ZEUSDAZ]

akaTheWilyFox Yeah emulation is a good thing if you don't have the real hardware or to play whilst traveling, but seriously you cannot beat loading the game into the original amiga hardware,...it's magical,...i've had m A500 for 26yrs and will never sell it, it's worth FAR more than what i could get for it especially as i have hundreds of full priced cracked games,..a wonderful machine.

[@akaTheWilyFox]

100% agree with you there. I actually own 28 games consoles (no xboxes). Whenever possible I like to play with the real thing. Like I said, I can't seem to find an Amiga for sensible money. Plus emulation is the only for me to go on arcade games.....

[@ZEUSDAZ]

28?!...bloody hell! I own an arcade machine, it sits in my living room, i used to have many boards for it but i mainly got and keep it for Street Fighter 1, the emulations i've seen of that game are still way off in comparison which is a shame as people only see the emulation version and judge it...unfairly with negative comments. My upload here shows a couple of pics at the beginning of my machine: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIqxgaikg812iLM, along with that i own 2x Spectrum 128k+1's, Atari 800xl, Amiga A500, Megadrive, PS1 (chipped, so i can play foreign games such as Einhander), PS2 & 3 and a C64, i was never really into consoles, i was a computer game kid :-)

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Did you read the disclaimer in my description above?! My channel is completely unemulated, no pc emulators are allowed on my channel, all original hardware used bysimply hooking the hardware up to my sony hdd / dvd recorder, recording them, editing them then burn to dvd, convert to divx and finally upload them...sonds long but simple and non emulated.

[@HayTatsuko]

awesome! this brings back the good memories of days long past. thank you!!

[@ZEUSDAZ]

J.R. Caldoon No problem :-)

[@tendarianZ]

Love your compilation. Scene 4ever!

[@altraz2k]

Already the first 4 minutes are pure magic! Thanks!

[@altraz2k]

+altraz2k Vroom cracktro! Yeah! :D

[@ZEUSDAZ]

+altraz2k Cool, I'm glad you are enjoying it :-)

[@altraz2k]

+ZEUSDAZ - THE UNEMULATED RETRO GAME CHANNEL I do! Good job, m8!

[@ZEUSDAZ]

+altraz2k Don't forget to check out my top 75 Amiga tunes video,...nearly 6hrs!!! :-D

[@MeteCanKarahasan]

3:11:20 TMNT introduction!

[@onlineamiga]

and here I am again dying of nostalgia wishing it was 1994 again :(

[@ZEUSDAZ]

Nostalgia?!, well in that case feel free to pop by my livestream this Sunday from 7.30pm BST, I'll be attempting a world speedrun world record on Bruce Lee for the spectrum, announcements will follow so please sub to receive it :-)

[@onlineamiga]

that sounds awesome, I will have to watch it on playback as i'll be on a plane during that time :( damnit.. why dont they have internet on planes!!!