20. All you need is love

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 Demon. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 speakingErik Zalitis

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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 Demon 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!

Last up in this episode of Amiga Flashback is Love Opens Your Eyes with Nabo and Teo.