Podcast episode profile for 20. All you need is love
It's almost Valentines day and love may be in the air. DJ Daemon doesn't care too much about that and instead plays everloving Amiga-tunes and remembers when he fell in love with C64 basic (perhaps not something he wants to admit…), the demo scene and everything else around Commodore geekdom.He also overuses the word “Love” in a way that even the Beatles would have found a bit too much.
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Flashback, tracks from the past
We have covered the demo scene since 2020, and play all the great chip tune music as well. Join us to hear tracked music combined with commentary from the geek-of-all-trades: DJ Daemon. He was once known as Daemon in the Amigaworld, and brings you stories about Amiga, retrocomputing, C64, demos, the demo scene and all things nerdy in the retro world.
We play tracker music composed on Protracker, Screamtracker, Fasttracker and Impulsetracker. It's music composed on Amiga and the retro-PC. Genres such as Chiptune, Synthwave and Retro electro.
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🎤 Production Notes
This is one of those shows, where the date pretty much made the topic mandatory. It did air one day before valentines day. But still....I didn't notice at recording that “TAP – Love Me – TNE rmx” and “AceCream – LoVE Me” are remixes of the same song… Ah, well, it's good enough to hear twice…Colophon:"All you need is love" is a song by the Beatles, released in 1967. It's commonly believed it was featured on their magnum opus "Sgt Peppers lonely heart club", but this is not the case.
Transcript
Amiga Flashback – show intro
You are listening to the Ericade Radio Network. Time for another episode of Amiga Flashback. The show that takes you back to the 80s and 90s. And it's close to Valentine's Day. This is DJ Daemon. And today's theme is love. Not necessarily love between two people. It could be love to a dear computer. That's the whole idea with this show, isn't it? So all the songs today have love inthe title.
DJ Daemon speaks about the show and mentions that love for computers also counts!
Amiga – Love thief
DJ Daemon speaks about how he grew up to love computers in the 80s.
love feat here on Amiga flashback. So what about love? Well, I fell in love with everything that had with computers in the 80s when my father brought home a lot of cool stuff. We had a Vectrex gaming console, a number of Commodore computers and different stuff. And my father, he actually opted to buy a Texas instrument TI-99. My first computer and I told you this before was a Commodore 64 and I fell in love withwell, the very simple, primitive, basic language that was installed in it. You're gonna do that much with it, but I loved it to death. I mean, I could build my own software and I have the software still. It's very enthusiastic. That is, it's quite bad, but it's fun to look at what you did. And it was a labor of love. You have to get stuff to work, play music, and maybe have some bitmap sprites that moved along on the screen.Really, some days those were.
Swallow – Love & emotions
DJ Daemon speaks about how he made his girlfriend a cosysop (not sysop!).
love and emotions by Swallow. So what about real love then? You know, the love between two persons. My first girlfriend, I met her in 1994. And well, her name was Pamela. We have not met for many years, but I can tell you this much. She actually became Sysop of my PBS back in the time and it ran on LaMiga 500. Really cool computer.and I have a picture with her sitting in front of it. She had no idea how it worked or how to actually use it. However, when she came back from a vacation in the summer, I taught her to become a really good cosy sub. She wrote many smart texts and basically just kept everything in check. Well, love wasn't meant to be forever, obviously, because we parted ways in 1996, but the BBS, it lasted until the year 2000.
TAP – Love Me – TNE rmx
DJ Daemon speaks about loving a computer. Mentions Bad Religion.
Love Me T &E Remix by Tapp. Loving a computer isn't that hard. mean, there's a song by Bad Religion called I Love My Computer. And there are a number of songs incorrectly attributed to Weird Al Jankovic with the same kind of theme. And Mr. Jankovic himself has actually made a song called It's All About The Pentiums. So yeah, you can express love.to a computer.
AceCream – LoVE Me
DJ Daemon speaks about loving been a geek and what defines a geek as opposed to a more “normal” person.
Love Me by Ace Cream. Ace Cream, it's like ice cream but ace. Yeah, I understand that is the joke. So what about loving something else more conceptual? Maybe being in love with everything geeky. You know, the difference between reading the first pages in the manual and then figuring out how to use the computer and then, I don't know, kind of Googling for recipes of cookies.or simply understanding the computer from the ground up, picking it apart, reading all the manuals, going out on the internet, debating which is the better CPU, Motorola vs Intel or something else, maybe today it's more like AMD vs Intel. Yeah, that is the difference between being a geek and simply using a tool and also that's the difference between being a normal person and a biton the annoying side, wouldn't you say?
Barry Almon – Lovely Girl Drowning
Barry Alman with Lovely Girl Drowning. Now that's a Downer song, isn't it? I don't like that. Let's be a little bit more upbeat and talk about love for the demo scene. Or rather, in my case, love for the demos themselves, be it intros for cracked games or really cool dentros or maybe a full-fledged multi-floppy demo. Yeah, there were many nice things to see.I remember State of Art, we kinda stopped dead in our tracks when we saw that. I remember Enigma. And I remember one of my favorites, Budbrain Mega Demo with the wrapping chickens and other demos that had funny little stories and cool effects and stuff like that. Really, there were many and too many to add. And at later date, I found out how cool Commodore 64 demos are.The newest ones, for example the last truck stop one that Fairlight did, that is a favorite. And a number of other ones, too many to mention, but I am so in love with all of those fantastic creations.
DJ Daemon speaks about love for the demo scene.
Ginseng of Alchemy – Lovesick
DJ Daemon admits using the word “Love” too much.
beginsing of alchemy with a lovesick and I admit I have used the word love so many times that I guess I'm probably breaking against some convention somewhere in the world So maybe a little bit more music and a little bit less me speaking
Cyanid of Total&SPA – Love like fire
DJ Daemon speaks about "Digital – a love story" that features an Amiga and retro-AI:s.
Love Like Fire by Cyaned. Alright. So, set five minutes into the future of 1988. In this game you have an Amiga desktop, a BBS client, ANSI art and a Fidonet node. and you Pwn Sprint. This is Heavy Rain meets Hackers. Okay, that's actually a description of a computer game called Digital A Love Story.Yeah, that is quite a cool game, which is mostly text driven I played it and it ends up with you having to meet some real intelligent AI's running on retro hardware and in the end It's all about love and a sacrifice. It's a free game So you can download it yourself for your PC. You can play it and it is fantastic It really really takes you back
Scorpion of control – Love and loss
DJ Daemon speaks about the author of the game mentioned in the segment and mixes up the title a bit.
So I want to give some credit where credit is due. Her name is Christine Love and she has a company called Love Conquers All Games. She is actually the author of Analogue, love story. She also have another game series that came out. I have spoken about them previously in a pod episode. are called Analogue, a hate story.and hate plus they're well worth downloading but it cost money of course but again we've spoken about them so just wanted to put that in there
Ead of Intense – Lovely Girl
DJ Daemon loves that the girl isn't drowning this time.
lovely girl with EAD of interns and this one is not even drowning. Perfect! I love this!going on with some more love, this time from Griff. Thanks for watching.
Griff – Love
DJ Daemon remembers how scary an inquisitive computer could be.
So let's talk about fear instead. In 1995 I had two Amigas. A 500, I used that for word processing and stuff, and a 1200, that was the BBS. Pamela, my girlfriend at the time, yep, that's the same one I spoke about earlier. I taught her how to use the 500 for word processing, which was all good, until I showed her something called LICS. LICS simply means Läsbarhets index, or in English,It is a readability index where you can simply see how easy your text is to read. You get a number and so. And she actually got so scared of the computer because it knew how she was writing that she actually walked with a wide berth around it. actually almost slithered through the walls not to get anywhere close to it. So I told her the computer can't bite you, you know.And then she calmed down and wrote some great stuff on it.
James Hsu – Love Letter
DJ Daemon speaks about how much he wanted an Amiga 3000. A love that was not answered.
by James Su. I think that's how he pronounces it. Sometimes love is not, you know, answered. I remembered I wanted an Amiga 3000 when I was a kid. It was a very expensive thing. It cost nearly $5,000 in Swedish equivalent at that time and that was totally impossible.But today I actually own a 3000 that I bought used. It wasn't expensive, it wasn't cheap exactly, but then again I really wanted it and it feels like sometimes you just have to wait for it.
John Stouffer – Love2
DJ Daemon doesn't think Kalachnikov is such a loving name.
he calls himself John Stauffer. Next up, love only, by a guy calling himself Kalashnikov. Not really exactly, kinda the right theme here today, is it?
Kalachnikov – 01 Love only
DJ Daemon says goodbye and wishes everyone single or not a happy Valentines day.
find a way in a few seconds because that's the song that's coming up here. Mitchell VandenBosch is his name. This is DJ Daemon and I want to tell you that you will have to find a new podcast in a few minutes. Another episode of this one or simply staying tuned to the station because it's continuing its journey into the night. So forever everyone out there, if you're lonely, if you have a girlfriend, boyfriend, whatever,All I can say to you is Happy Valentine's Day!
Michiel van den Bos – Love will find a way
DJ Daemon signs off and sends you away with one last tune.
Last up in this episode of Amiga Flashback is Love Opens Your Eyes with Nabo and Teo.
NaBo&TeO – Love Opens Your Eyes
About the artist Amiga Flashback View all tracks ›
Started in december 2020, Amiga Flashback was the first name of "Flashback, tracks from the past". It features nice midnight DJ banter from DJ Daemon, interviews, discussions about retro-stuff and lots of tracked music. Most of it is Amiga tracked tunes. In May 2021, it was renamed and started allowing all kinds of tracked tunes instead of mostly Amiga ones.
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He got his Commodore 64 in 1989 and his first Amiga in 1990. A huge fan of tracker music and have had a long standing dream to create a radio show playing that kind of music. In 2020, that dream came true and in december Amiga Flashback started as a podcast. It was later renamed Flashback, tracks from the past and here we are.
He is also an orga for Swedish demo party Edison and a total retro nerd.
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