Amiga floppy drive motor music

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A fun trick that came with some demo discs back in the day. Just be cautious. You don't wanna ruin the stepmotor in that floppy drive, do you? ;)

I did not use the step motor which moves the head like El Condor Pasa song you might heard on Amiga drive, or Star Wars theme on pc floppy drive.
Instead I used the motor that spins the disk. Hardly something that might get broken by turning it on and off...

indeed :)

I once got a virus on a disk that would turn the screen to the german flag and play the national anthem... took me several seconds to figure WHERE the music actually was coming from... I never switched the power off so quickly. XD

Neat trick. Would have been awesome as a prank boot virus and along with a flashing Beethoven will now destroy your floppy drive! message would have had me lunging for the power cord, pulling the wrong ones first, while flailing my arms and praying to the floppy drive god (I know from experience that I wont simply press the power button, Im useless in a panic). Hmm. Thanks for just making a youtube video out of this instead.

:-)
I actually had an idea to play an audio sample on floppy drive which would say "the devil possessed your amiga", but didn't have any means to record the voice at that time.
Btw, the music is by Strauss not Beethoven... ;-)

That would have been positively evil. If my floppy started speaking I'd piss myself and question my sanity. Hell, I was floored the first time I heard my Gameboy yell "cowabunga".

The track you hear is from Edelweiss.