Megahawks Music Disk 1
Megahawks Music Disk 1 is a homebrew demo by Musculman / Megahawks Inc released on 30 August 2008. It’s a collection of various Amiga tracks from the 1980’s compiled into a playable N64 ROM.
You can get the ROM from its download page by using the password musicman64.
About Megahawks Music Disk 1
This demo has a somewhat interesting history. It dates back all the way to 1989 When Megahawks made a demo for the Commodore Amiga that included a bunch of music and 2D graphics. Over time the original demo was lost, but Dr Vector (one of the composers) had a backup of the music and graphics.
They managed to rebuild the demo for the PC (.exe) in June 2002, and then a port of it on PS2 in November 2003. It would take until August 2008 for it to finally reach the Nintendo 64 as their final demo in the console.
This demo is called Megahawks Music Disk 1, but I couldn’t find any evidence of there being a second one. my guess is that they made several of these back in the Amiga days, but this is the only one to be recreated on other platforms.
The demo itself is fairly self explanatory. It’s a collection of audio tracks in MOD format that are played on your Nintendo 64. Here’s a list of tracks and their authors:
- Beachparty 89 – dr.vector
- Things are o.k. – copycrazy
- Muscleman – copyman
- Robotic muscle – dr.vector
- Lambada robat – mc coolbeat
- Dragon’s flight – copyman
- Top gigolos – dr.vector
- On the disco with no girl – mc coolbeat
- Horse of steel – pizza
- Women of my dream – dr.vector
Another N64 release, thanks to dynamix,locke and CZN for material that has helped out
This musicdisk is a conversion of our Megahawks Inc musicdisk 1 back from 1989. It was originally released on amiga, but we wanted to release it on N64 also so the kids of today can enjoy it aswell, as not everyone has an amiga nowadays you know!
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This has to be the longest marquee I’ve ever seen. It’s so long that the demo actually crashes before the marquee has a chance to loop over. And yes, I tried it twice and it crashes at the same point. It lasts for a total of 47 minutes at about 100 characters per minute which means it’s reaaally slow.
Another N64 release, thanks to dynamix,locke and CZN for material that has helped out
This musicdisk is a conversion of our Megahawks Inc musicdisk 1 back from 1989. It was originally released on amiga, but we wanted to release it on N64 also so the kids of today can enjoy it aswell, as not everyone has an amiga nowadays you know!
Welcome to the first music collection from Megahawks Inc. Made at the Megahawks Inc Summer meeting! Fist some credits: N64 code by Musculman. Original code by Pizza… Logo by Dr. Vector… These fonts by Madcat… Upper fonts by Dragonmaster… Music by Dr. Vector, MC Coolbear, Copyman, Copycrazy and Pizza. Use arrow keys to control the scroller. This is Dr Vector writing this scroller at the Megahawks Inc meeting at Pizza’s House in June of 1989. Rest of the Megahawks are watching Knight Rider on TV. MC Coolbeat brought his David Hasselhoff album with him. So you could say this is a Knight Rider meeting! Nice album. But I prefer Sabrina or Michael Bolton. Copyman showed me his soon coming Samantha Fox ham demo 4. Great work man! Now MC Coolbeat wants to write something…
Hey dudes! This is Coolbeat, Im so stoned on bear right now… Dr Vector say I must write something about my music.. On disco with no girl is a song from I was on disco and never got a girl… Took seven hours to make but it was worths its… Back to Knight Rider…
Hello people, this is now space operator behind the keys! It is very fun here and I have just seen another nice episode of Knight Rider, starting hero of our party David Hasselhoff! This afternoon Copyman and me have been sweating all the time at the beach, with our shorts off, while useing Dr. Vectors personal portable fitness equipment!!!!! We had fun in the sun, and Copyman had a verye big blaster with some musice he made for a good friend of us who has a gym, called Fernando. Right now I am gonna get myselve more bear, so hang in there!!!………..
Okay here I am back, I have gotten myself anothar bear and it tastes verey good… Right now we’re listening to shower of love one of Dr. Vector’s mega scene hits, beauty song!! Time for some serious disco dancing! Cya….
Dr. Vector again. I forgot to tell you that last night we were at the local disco and the disc jockey CDJ Kerchevalj played my Top Gigolos module and the crowd went wild! I think I am going to pursue a musical career after all (and not military career like I originally planned). Ciao!
This is Copyman on the keys fresh from pumping some iron. Vectors fitness machine really works out your triceps and abs. Here is my greetlist……
- Pornolord of pornolords… You asshole where are the disks sent you? Need them back, send back ass soon ass possible!
- Mr Waldo of Blue Lightning Softworks… Why do you keep sending me all that old stuff? Stop it…
- T.H.O.R. of Thunderpower Cracking Crew… Nice work, keep it up. Contact me ass soon ass possible ok?
- Huxtable of Digital Doom Crew… Keep on music!
- Gorath of Blitter Wizards… Your code is lame! Ha ha what a lamer… Go buy Atari ha ha… Contact Copyman of Megahawks Inc. for hot swap…
- Fausto Vittucci via Torino138 Roma 00184… Illegal swap only!
Megahawks also sends greetings to our friends in: Batman Group, Bitblasters, Bit Box Boys, Bit Crushers, Copper Crew, Dark Demon, Dark Demons, Firehawks, Gay Team, Ghostbusters, Knighthawks, Panic, Technowizards, and the forgotten rest… Fuckings to Xor Control!
Okay! Brave of Megahawks Inc Here… The atmosphere is great… Guillermo (Dr Vector) and me has taken off our T-shirts now… And the sweet is dripping down my neck! Hardcore! Anyway, excuse coming… Sorry for interruptign you Copyman but I have important message to viewers of this great collection… Have a cigar and RELAX…. And I will tell you the story how my life got twisted upside down, and how I became to know the prince… It all started one day in school when me and Guillermo heard about this new guy who was going to start in our class in school… In diffrence to all other sudents in class we were pretty excited after we heard that he liked basketball and computers… Some gossips and rumours were circulating… A friend of mine said that he was into the data… So no second thoughts… The very next day we brought our best disks… Though… I was really tired after working out with Guillermo! So he had to carry the disks. Hehe! (Sorry pal!) Anyway, back to the story… The very next day tehre was a new dude in our class… The first lesson was very quiet and short, someone had put some glueing on ours teachars chair… And she was very upset!!! She said we all could take a break… Back on schoolyard 10 minutes later we walked up to the new guy and I slided up our latest crack (test drive) out of my sleeve… He said that he already had it!!! I could not believe my ears!!! At this point he did some sort of ni
Conclusion and review
Given that Megahawks Music Disk 1 is really an Amiga demo put on the Nintendo 64, it’s not particularly impressive especially considering some of Musculman’s previous work.
It is somewhat reminiscent of other demos like 2 Blokes & An Armchair in the sense that it’s a port of an earlier Amiga demo. The music is fairly decent for homemade chiptune, it’ll make you feel right at home in 1989.
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