Here are some hidden tape messages from long ago, hidden away inside Amstrad CPC cdt tape files. Some of the formatting is a little off but will tidy up later.
| Barbarian (E) – Melbourne House.cdt |
| OK I CAN’T FOOL YOU HACKERS-BUT PLEASE JUST FU**OFF… NECRON RULES !!!! HA HA AHA -ON NO NOTAHA AGAIN BY THE WAY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH EASIER TO POKE 0 WITH MY INITIALS. |
| Computer Hits 4 (E) – Side 1A.cdt |
| SPINDIZZY V1.0 RELEASE 1:COPYRIGHT Electric Dreams and Paul Shirley 1985/86 HI Hackers!!! |
| Gunfright (E).cdt |
| HELLO DEAR HACKERS.LOVE FROMPAMELA ROBERTS |
| Killer Cobra (E).cdt |
| ** Hi there hackers! Richard here (I wrote Fly Spy!!) ** |
| Revenge of the C5 (E).cdt |
| to all you hackers,please stop oggling our mega fantastic creation! |
| Skulduggery (E).cdt |
| Give us a ring if you want on Glosop (455) 5273 and ask for JASON (m.c.hackers only) |
| Spindizzy (E).cdt |
| SPINDIZZY V1.0 RELEASE 1:COPYRIGHT Electric Dreams and Paul Shirley 1985/86 HI Hackers!!! |
| Toujours Pret ! (E).cdt |
| HELLO HACKERS,COME YE ALL,HOGG AND ROGERS HOPE YOU HAVE A BALL;AS IF WE HADN’T ENOUGH TO DO,WE’VE LEFT THIS MESSAGE JUST FOR YOU. WITH THANKS TO: MUM,DAD,MARK.R,LESourtommysmate,DARAN.L,ART IN ACTION,PHIL.S,NATALIE.H,BADEN POWELL,the ZX81. The authors of this epic are COLINm HOGG and J.DAVE ROGERS,COLIN HOGG,J.DAVE |
| Trailblazer (E).cdt |
| HACKERS EVIL HOLES |
| Wriggler (E).cdt |
| What are you doing looking at this program anyway ? This is supposed to be protected. Go |
| Venom (E).cdt |
| yo hackers!! |
| Agent X II (E).cdt |
| CONGRATULATIONS! YOU FOUND THE JINGO! as a reward, please accept this INCREDIBLY CLEVER MULTICOLOUR MESSAGE!! Well, now that you’re here we’d better introduce ourselves: We are, (in reverse order) Mark, Steven, Jonathan, Tim and Mike. (oh, and sometimes Gof as well) (all from room 23 at Software Creations) We do already have a fan out there some-where, so, if you’re watching; ‘Hi Paddy!’ Write to us!! Unfortunately the jingo this time is just a few text pages. We were so rushedthat this is all we had time for. Sorry.We’ll do better next time. (It could have been worse, we didn’t have time fora jingo at all on the spectrum). DID YOU KNOW THAT..? (delete as applicable) We are all…. mad. sad. hexagonal. oversexed. everybody here has…. a 2cv. no brain. two brains. ulcers. everybody here hates…. anthrax. pop music. Tmny Brndy. having their genitals bitten. continued.. DID YOU KNOW THAT..? (continued….) We NEVER refer to each other as…. hippy. fatboy. melon head. nostril removal specialist. When nobody is looking we like to…. sleep. program. eat jelly. shave our heads with a cheese grater. Everybody here eats…. nothing. everything. leaves. young children for breakfast. You knew that? Aw shucks. “Doctor! Doctor! I think I need glasses! “Probably. This is a computer shop. Some useful words: The. And. Cat. Dog. Sex. Moron. Globule. Strellvarp. We hope that some of these words prove to be useful for you next time you have a conversation. Working on the BUM theory that NIPPLE any game POO which gets WILLIE itself banned FART will auto-DICK-matically go straight TITS to number FANNY one then Ithink TOILET PARTS that we THIGHS stand a BREAST-FONDLE good chance of BOTTOMS this selling quite well by now. Do you think this will really work? Oh yeah. Definitely. But your Honour it was a JOKE! MASTERING A few interesting facts about mastering a game: It stinks. It takes forever. It reduces grown men to tears. It’s crap. It begins with the letter ‘m’. It has to be done EVERY SINGLE TIME THATYOU WRITE A GAME. And THAT’s why Agent X II blew its dead-line. Honest. SPECIAL THANKS …are due to the following people: ‘Tiny’ Williams…Without whom etc. etc. Richy ‘baby’…Who was absolutely crazy enough to hire us in the first place. Terry ‘Tezzer babes’ at Mtronic who was very patient, all things considered. ..AND NOW, THE END IS NEAR… Well I bet you’re all sat there thinking’What a pile of tedious old cak!’.You’reprobably right, Still, you pays your money you takes your choice. There’s plenty more fish in the sea. A bird in the hand is wor…..I’m sorry, I don’t know what came over me. M.W. ’87 |
| Darkwurlde (E).cdt |
| Hi there!I hope your having fun!Considering that you have taken the trouble to hack into DARKWURLDE i have decided to bury this little message in the code.DARKWURLDE was written on an AMSTRAD CPC464 f during the first couple of months of 1986.It’s taken me a long time to write because i’m still at school doing my A-levels and i only get a couple of hours spare time in the evenings.I used ARNOR’s MAXAM assembler/disassembler/monitor to write DARKWURLDE _ and i would just like to thank ARNOR for doing an excellent job on it.I’ve got to admit that DARKWURLDE is not as good as i originally hoped it would be but i was getting a bit short on cash and had to rush it in the end.I must admit that DARKWURLDE is parSftly based on ULTIMATE’s UNDERWURLDE with a bit of JETPAC thrown in.ULTIMATE have greatly influenced my style of programming and i’m afraid the more games that i publish the more you will see a great similarity between them and ULTIMATE’s.I must point out t hough that DARKWURLDE CANNOT be compared with anything ULTIMATE have ever written.I am totally addicted to everything that they have ever written and hopefully one day i will be able to write games that will even make ULTIMATE look average.During JANUARY 1: 986 i started seriously thinking about 3D games.KNIGHTLORE,ALIEN-8,NIGHTSHADE and GUNFRIGHT have really got to me.Since then i started work on HAGIS:Holographic Adventure Graphics Interaction System.It is virtually completed and uses all 4 of the mode 1 co% lours whereas ULTIMATE only use 3.The reason for this is that some of the pixels in a sprite must be transparent.ULTIMATE have sacrificed one of the pens to represent this transparent pixel but i have slightly increased the sprite data needed.Unfortunately D my system slows the code down a bit more than ULTIMATE’s.I have already started work on 2 games that will use hagis and one of them,i don’t know which yet,will be published in spring 87 under the title of ISLANDIA..One of them is based on ULTIMATE’s ENTOM BED and KNIGHTLORE.The other is based on ULTIMATE’s NIGHTSHADE and KNIGHTLORE.I’d like to assure you though that both games will be very different from ULTIMATE’s mentioned above.The game that i will not publish under the title of ISLANDIA will be the thiro d game in the series and will be called DAWNSLEY.I’ve also got plans for a game called LUNARUN but it’s only a fast action,2d,shoot-em-up style arcade game and i don’t think i’ll bother with it just yet.I believe that the trend set by KNIGHTLORE is the besPlt way to carry on at the moment and so you’ll be seeing more advanced 3D games from PJM in the months/years to come.Finally i’m going to start taking programming more seriously when i’ve finished my A-levels in the summer.I’m going to publish a few more ga mes first but then i’m going to set up a software house.It will be run along the same lines as ULTIMATE:a team of programmers,artists and musicians working together to produce one or two games at a time and developing new ideas and concepts.My aim is that it will give ULTIMATE some stiff competition.Sometime in SPRING 1987 i will officially start looking for the people that i will need.I’m looking for men/women that can program Z80,6502 or 6809 or are capable of designing graphics and advertisements on comp/ uters or can write and program music and sound effects.I need a good bunch of people that can get along together,talk to each other and work out problems and ideas together.Initially i can only cope with a few people so the sooner you can contact me the be tter.If you think that you fit the above description and are very VERY keen to work with home micros then please contact PAUL on 01-398 3145 anytime.I will be very gratefull for all enquiries.Also if you have any software of your own please contact me for Xan evaluation with a view to publishing,very good royalties will be paid for all software under the PJMsoft label.SUNDAY 16/3/1986.RE-EDITED TUESDAY 2/9/1986.(c) PJMsoft (r) 1986.! |
| Alien Highway – Encounter 2 (E).cdt |
| What’s this….Another Hacker? Watch out for :- ‘REVENGE OF THE ALIENS – Encounter 3’ Due out sometime in ’87 If I get around to it! Congratulations on getting this far! But have you got it to work on disc? HI THERE,HACKER! I’M INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW YOU GOT HERE PLEASE CONTACT:- MARK HAIGH-HUTCHINSON, c/o VORTEX SOFTWARE, 24 KANSAS AVENUE,SALFORD,M5 2GL. Congratulations on getting this far! But have you got it to work on disc? HI THERE,HACKER! I’M INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW YOU GOT HERE PLEASE CONTACT:- MARK HAIGH-HUTCHINSON, c/o VORTEX SOFTWARE, 24 KANSAS AVENUE,SALFORD,M5 2GL. |
| Android Two (E).cdt |
| What’s this….Another Hacker? Watch out for :- ‘REVENGE OF THE ALIENS – Encounter 3’ Due out sometime in ’87 If I get around to it! Congratulations on getting this far! But have you got it to work on disc? HI THERE,HACKER! I’M INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW YOU GOT HERE PLEASE CONTACT:- MARK HAIGH-HUTCHINSON, c/o VORTEX SOFTWARE, 24 KANSAS AVENUE,SALFORD,M5 2GL. Congratulations on getting this far! But have you got it to work on disc? HI THERE,HACKER! I’M INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW YOU GOT HERE PLEASE CONTACT:- MARK HAIGH-HUTCHINSON, c/o VORTEX SOFTWARE, 24 KANSAS AVENUE,SALFORD,M5 2GL. |
| Balloonacy (E).cdt |
| LOTS OF LOVE TO MY WIFE JULIE AND MY BABY DAUGHTER EMMA x x x HELLO HACKER |
| Barbarian (E) – Melbourne House.cdtalloonacy (E).cdt |
| @OK I CAN’T FOOL YOU HACKERS-BUT PLEASE JUST FUCKOFF… NECRON RULES !!!! HA HA AHA -ON NO NOTAHA AGAIN BY THE WAY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN MUCH EASIER TO POKE 0 WITH MY INITIALS. |
| Postman Pat (E).cdt |
| Hello Bill, Crack this one then, POPCORN!! |
| Rooster Run (E).cdt |
| SO SOMEBODY FINALLY CRACKED THE PROTECTION,EH? WELL DONE,I SUPPOSE…WASN’T WORTH IT THOUGH, WAS IT ???….. |
| Australian Rules Football (E) – Side A.cdt |
| decided to have a look at the loader eh?people like you are very naughty |
| Highway Encounter (E).cdt |
| HI THERE,HACKER! I’M INTERESTED TO KNOW HOW YOU GOT HERE PLEASE CONTACT:- MARK HAIGH-HUTCHINSON, FLAT 1,14 CIRCULAR ROAD, WITHINGTON,MANCHESTER,M20 9LP |
| Jet Set Willy – The Final Frontier (E).cdt |
| (C) 1985 SOFTWARE PROJECTS Well, here is a little message to those of you who dare to HACK into other peoples programs! I cannot be bothered to put line feeds or carriage returns into all this, so there. Interesting thing, the Z80. Did you know, for example, about the conditional RST 38 instruction? Just try doing a JR Z,-1. Any condition will work. Not much use on the Amstrad! What do you mean you use it all the time!?!?!? Bye, and good luck with the game (tee hee!!). |
| Killer Cobra (E).cdt |
| (C) 1985 SOFTWARE PROJECTS Well, here is a little message to those of you who dare to HACK into other peoples programs! I cannot be bothered to put line feeds or carriage returns into all this, so there. Interesting thing, the Z80. Did you know, for example, about the conditional RST 38 instruction? Just try doing a JR Z,-1. Any condition will work. Not much use on the Amstrad! What do you mean you use it all the time!?!?!? Bye, and good luck with the game (tee hee!!). |
| Killer Cobra (E).cdt |
| (C) 1985 SOFTWARE PROJECTS Well, here is a little message to those of you who dare to HACK into other peoples programs! I cannot be bothered to put line feeds or carriage returns into all this, so there. Interesting thing, the Z80. Did you know, for example, about the conditional RST 38 instruction? Just try doing a JR Z,-1. Any condition will work. Not much use on the Amstrad! What do you mean you use it all the time!?!?!? Bye, and good luck with the game (tee hee!!). |
| 4 Mercenaires (E), Les – Side B.cdt |
| This AY music module is copyright 1987 Jas.C.Brooke. -Prepare to die!- |
| Lazer Tag (E) – Spain Retail.cdt |
| This AY music module is copyright 1987 Jas.C.Brooke. -Prepare to die!- |
| Madballs (E).cdt |
| This music module is the copyright of Jas.C.Brooke. Prepare to die! |
| Rockford (E) – Side A.cdt |
| This AY music module is copyright 1987 Jas.C.Brooke. -Prepare to die!- |
| Savage (E) – Side 2B.cdt |
| This AY music module is copyright 1987 Jas.C.Brooke. -Prepare to die!- |
| Super Trolley (E).cdt |
| This AY sound module is copyright (C) 1987/88 Jas.C.Brooke. -Prepare to die!- |
| Pyjamarama (E) – Amsoft.cdt |
| This AY sound module is copyright (C) 1987/88 Jas.C.Brooke. -Prepare to die!- |
| Rik the Roadie (E).cdt |
| DEAR BILL , WISH YOU WERE EARNING LOTS OF MONEY LIKE US. NOT PENNYLESS WITH A HACKING DESEASE. LOVE FROM ALL AT BRID, POPCORN!! |
| Sailing (E).cdt |
| DEAR BILL , WISH YOU WERE EARNING LOTS OF MONEY LIKE US. NOT PENNYLESS WITH A HACKING DESEASE. LOVE FROM ALL AT BRID, POPCORN!! Hello and welcome to the obligatory hacker’s message! Thank you for taking the time and (very small) effort to hack this program. If you’d like to drop me a line then write to ; RT Horrocks, 115 Jack Straw’s Lane, Headington, Oxford. OX3 0DW. |
| Slug (E).cdt |
| TO THE MERRY HACKER (BILL) LOOK! STOP HACKING MY GAMES OR I WILL SET LOIS ON YOU!! HOWS EILEEN? AND THE CATS!! 10-10 THE POPCORN….. |
| Tales of the Arabian Nights (E).cdt |
PROTECTION SYSTEM BY KEVIN PARKER. GAME AUDvIO,VISUAL,CODE COPYRIGHT INTERCEPTOR SOFTWARE 1985. USE POWER SWITCH TO RESET. **** NOT ANOTHER PIRATE ? THAT MUST BE THE 937’TH ONE SINCE I PUT THIS AMAZING MUSIC INTO THIS RATHER DULL GAME . CANT WAIT TO I GET PAI ND FOR MY WORK – DO YOU REALISE I HAD TO RE-WRITE HALF OF IT BECAUSE IT WAS SO BAD ! WELL , THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR USING A 6502 PROGRAMMER ON A REAL MACHINE LIKE THE AMSTRAD . COMING SOON – MUSIC WHILE YOU LOAD ! IF ANY SOFTWARE HOUSE OUT THERE WOULD LIKE T O HAVE THIS UNIQUE NEW LOADING SYSTEM WITH THEIR PROGRAM THEN THEY MUST CONTACT —– KEVIN PARKER , 19 RODWELL CLOSE , KINSON , BOURNEMOUTH , BH10 7JH . REASONABLE PRICES , MUSIC DATA SUPPLIED BY THE AUTHOR . ALSO AVAILABLE – AN AMAZING DISC PROTECTION SY STEM FROM ODDBALL SOFTWARE – CONTACT KEVIN PARKER FOR DETAILS . MUST GO , I’VE GOT TO PUT A TURBO ON THIS PROGRAM YET !! BYE BYE 4 NOW **** |
| Ice Temple (E), The.cdt |
| HELLO THERE YOU PESKY HACKERS.NO, I DONTWASTE MEMORY WITH THESE STUPID MESSAGES, BECAUSE THIS AREA IS USED AS A BUFFER. STOP LOOKIL NG AT MY CODE. GAME CODE BY JEREMY SHERLOCK, HELLO TO GARY THOMLINSON, OWEN HINES, DAVE FOOTITT AND CLAIRE TOWNSEND. BYE |
| Tubaruba (E).cdt |
| HELLO THERE YOU PESKY HACKERS.NO, I DONTWASTE MEMORY WITH THESE STUPID MESSAGES, BECAUSE THIS AREA IS USED AS A BUFFER. STOP LOOKIL NG AT MY CODE. GAME CODE BY JEREMY SHERLOCK, HELLO TO GARY THOMLINSON, OWEN HINES, DAVE FOOTITT AND CLAIRE TOWNSEND. BYE |
| Twin Turbo V8 (E).cdt |
| HELLO THERE YOU PESKY HACKERS.NO, I DONTWASTE MEMORY WITH THESE STUPID MESSAGES, BECAUSE THIS AREA IS USED AS A BUFFER. STOP LOOKIL NG AT MY CODE. GAME CODE BY JEREMY SHERLOCK, HELLO TO GARY THOMLINSON, OWEN HINES, DAVE FOOTITT AND CLAIRE TOWNSEND. BYE |
| Voodoo Rage (E).cdt |
| VOO DOO RAGE (FORMERLY COMPUTER WIDOWS) COPYRIGHT 1986 REMOTE SOFTWARE SINCE YOU ARE READING THIS I MUST ASSUME THAT YOU ARE A PIRATE . STOP NOW BEFORE INFRINGING ANY COPYRIGHT LAWS AS HEAVEY PENALTIES ARE NOW ENFORCABLE. THE PRICE OF SOFTWARE CAN ONLY ESCULATE IF THIS KIND OF PIRACY CONTINUES. DO EVERYBODY A FAVOUR AND BUY YOUR OWN……. IF, HOWEVER, DTHIS & IS ONLY GOING TO BE A BACKUP … CARRY ON Mc DUFF. |
| Hard Drivin’ (E).cdt |
| THANKS TO :- VICKY BYRNE, JUERGEN FRIEDRICH, AND ALL AT ATARI. |
| Hunchback II – Quasimodo’s Revenge (E).cdt |
| HUNCHBACK II WAS@WRITTEN OVER A@PERIOD OF 2 MONTHS@BY SIMON COBB.@THANKS TO ALL AT@OCEAN PARTICULARLY@MARTIN GALWAY,JOFFA,@MIKE,TONY & BILL@THANKS ALSO TO PAUL@FINEGAN FOR THE@TOFFEES !!!@ |