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by: Stu Taylor
copyright: 1986 Stu Taylor

MUSICIANS/T/Taylor_Stuart/Sky_Runner.sid

CSDb entry: https://csdb.dk/sid/?id=37917

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COMMENT: "I had been commissioned by Orpheus Software (ironically the makers of Electrosound) to code the music for their game Sky Runner. They sent me a work-in-progress version of the game along with a sort-of-completed Electrosound composition. They wanted me to transpose this to a non-Electrosound version and make it my own - what you hear on here is the end result. Unfortunately the MD of Orpheus at the time was a complete nightmare to work with - I was young and naive at the time but this was my first experience, commercially, of trying to get money out of someone. He just wouldn't pay - kept saying cheque would be in the post, give it another week or so etc etc....looking at Sky Runner for the first time ever (on here) it looks like the programmer's deal with Orpheus went pretty sour as well. I see the game was published by another software house (Cascade?) and the music had gone back to it's original Electrosound composition - obviously I had no dealings with Cascade - they probably didn't even know about my arrangement!!.... About 1 year later, under new management, Orpheus approached me again asking me to do some more music. OK, I said, firstly you pay me for Sky Runner and secondly I want the money for the new music (I think it was an adaption of some board game involving moving buses around London???) up front - they obliged so there was a happy ending to this story." (ST) The original tune can be found in /GAMES/S-Z/Sky_Runner.sid