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/* Cover Tapes */
Here are some covertapes converted to disks and uploaded by forum member '''dodogildo''':
[[File:AAcoverdsks.zip]]
During the first six years, Amstrad Action featured a cover tape on special occasions, such as the Christmas and Birthday editions:
* AA4 (Christmas 1985) - Kung-Fu, Number 1
* AA16 (January 1987) - Druid Demo (Level 2), Amfile, Ramdisk, Fastform (NB bug causes error message, see page 21), Blitter, Drumkit, Gigo
* AA28 (January 1988) - The Duct full game, 464 to 6128, Disk Editor, First Numbers, Thoughtlink, Sound Digitizer
* AA37 (October 1988) - Dizzy Special Edition, Micro Assembler, Special Disk Formatter, SmArt II
* AA40 (January 1989) - Total Eclipse Special Edition, Isotopes, Solar System, Perspective Art, Disk Library System, Gibberish, Reviews
* AA49 (October 1989) - Shinobi Demo, Daleks, DataMaker, WordFinder, SelfDest, Easisheet
* AA52 (January 1990) - The Untouchables Demo, Sun Crossword, Gunslinger, Word Processor, Typewriter
* AA61 (October 1990) - Ironman Demo, Tau Ceti
* AA64 (January 1991) - Puzznic Demo, Lost Caves, Space Froggy
Beginning with issue 67, Amstrad Action began to feature a cover tape on each issue.
From issue 67 to issue 90 the cover tape was known as the Action Pack. This tended to feature a demo of a new game, a full older game (or sometimes two), an application or piece of serious software and type ins or pokes:
* AA67 (April 1991) - Total Recall Demo, Hydrofool, Dizzy
* AA68 (May 1991) - Predator 2 Demo, How to be a Complete Bastard, Biggles, AA Toolbox
* AA69 (June 1991) - Spindizzy, Wizard's Lair, Toolikt
* AA70 (July 1991) - Switchblade Demo, Megaphoenix, Future Knight, Balldozer
* AA71 (August 1991) - Hero Quest Demo, Technician Ted, 3D Construction Kit Demo, Devpac
* AA72 (September 1991) - Robozone Demo, Lightforce, Heavy on the Magick, Rambase, Datafile
* AA73 (October 1991) - Turrican 2 Demo, Thunderjaws Demo, Marsport, XREF
* AA74 (November 1991) - Turtles 2 Demo, Terror of the Deep, Sweevo's World, Drumkit, SmArt II
* AA75 (December 1991) - Cisco Heat Demo, Impossaball, Tir Na Nog, RSX-LIB
* AA76 (January 1992) - Graphic Adventure Creator, Southern Belle, Pagemaker Plus, Extended Basic
* AA77 (February 1992) - Seymour Take One, Firelord, Football Forecaster, Fonts
* AA78 (March 1992) - Space Crusade Demo, The Sphinx Jinx, Shockway Rider, DiscContent
* AA79 (April 1992) - RanaRama, Maze Mania, Word Pro, Easisheet, Powerbase 2
* AA80 (May 1992) - Stryker and the Crypts of Trogan Demo, Croco Magneto, Anarchy, GPaint
* AA81 (June 1992) - Forbidden Planet, Sprites, The Addams Family Demo
* AA82 (July 1992) - Lemmings Demo, Dragontorc, Powerpage
* AA83 (August 1992) - Defenders of the Earth Demo, Drehdriss, SuperSonic
* AA84 (September 1992) - Famous Five, City Slicker, Notepag, Liteprog
* AA85 (October 1992) - On the Run, Link, Worktop, Disc Organiser
* AA86 (November 1992) - Glider Rider, Animator, Screen Compressor, G-Paint. Side B of this cassette had an audio track demonstrating the result of MIDI software on the CPC.
* AA87 (December 1992) - Nexor, Pakman, Pilot
* AA88 (January 1993) - Tankbusters, Penguins, JL-COPY
* AA89 (February 1993) - Wriggler, MagicDOS, Superchars, Flik
* AA90 (March 1993) - Steve Davis Snooker, LARA
From issue 91 to 97 the cover tape was known as the Classic Collection. This tended to feature one full game and one application:
* AA91 (April 1993) - Tasword, Colossus Chess 4
* AA92 (May 1993) - BooTracker, Syntax, Balloon Buster
* AA93 (June 1993) - Racing Boxform, Who's Afraid of the Balrog, Mystical
* AA94 (July 1993) - Instant Recall, VFProg, Contraption
* AA95 (August 1993) - Mastercalc, Biff
* AA96 (September 1993) - Screen Designer, Neil Android
* AA97 (October 1993) - Zapp Assembler, Rik the Roadie
Issue 98's cover tape was not named:
* AA98 (November 1993) - The Blues Brothers
From issue 99 onwards the cover tape was known as Serious Action and typically contained an application and a full game:
* AA99 (December 1993) - Stormlord (full game, AA censored version), Font Editor, Dartsma's Clip Art, Grab Converter
* AA100 (January 1994) - Elite
* AA101 (February 1994) - Exolon, Accounts
* AA102 (March 1994) - Graph Master, DIYFX, Cybernoid 2
* AA103 (April 1994) - Nebulus, Speech
* AA104 (May 1994) - Uridium, AA Toolkit
* AA105 (June 1994) - Deliverance, BLITZ!, Status Window, Disk Encoder
* AA106 (July 1994) - Zynaps, Spriting Back Utility
* AA107 (August 1994) - Ikari Warriors, Screen Dump, Picasso
* AA108 (September 1994) - Fantasy World Dizzy, Routeplanner, Graph Plot
* AA109 (October 1994) - Turbo the Tortoise, Crossword Compiler
* AA110 (November 1994) - Crazy Cars 3, RTC Player, Daily Diary, Crossword Compiler
* AA111 (December 1994) - D.E.S., Dos Copy, Breakdown, Minesweeper, Logistic
* AA112 (January 1995) - Titus the Fox, Mega Blasters, DES
* AA113 (February 1995) - Samurai Trilogy, Power Spell
* AA114 (March 1995) - Ball Bearing, Masters of Space, Columbia
* AA115 (April 1995) - Spaghetti Western, Cyberboy, TUSS
* AA116 (May 1995) - Hercules, Chuckie Egg, Disc Editor-Archiver, Columbia 1.1, Bankman
* AA117 (June 1995) - North & South, Imageprint
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