Sparky / Pompey Pirates - Quartet Tunes

[ZX81v2]

Hehehe "It's a Dog's Life" mp3 rips
eMule link:
ed2k://|file|Sparky%20of%20Pompey%20Pirates%20-%20Yep%20It%20Really%20Is%20A%20Dogs%20Life%20(The%20Midland%20Boyz).rar|9261958|ABFB789A915206FBC4415D9DC3521B5D|h=GRUAHPDMA4MEV7UVVBUTVRNAEJI7EACC|/

I allways loved the Pompey Pirates, and allways loved finding the cool menus with Sparky's music.
Would be cool to get sparky's contact info to see if he still got any of his original works.
Could have some fun rewriting it nowdays
remember Alien of PP was/is a very good programmer and some of the replay codes may have been altered in some way to stop ripping from the menus .
Just a thought. I used to use the ultimate ripper cart on the ST and some of the tunes I could never get ripped properly, Inc the tune above "Yep it really is a dogs life)

Sorry don't know if the emule link is allowed, I have this file and it's clean from crap! (3 mp3's)
I need some barking dog samples, gonna have ago at re-witing this tune Allways remember mate being bored while I just listened to the tune

Regards
ZX81v2 - PS Mug UK, your stuff on the ST was cool Nice to see some of the old skool faces still going respect

[MiggyMog]

Here are the sparky MSA's which have 4Q files on them.

You can use the program on the disks to seperate them back into 4V & .SET for editing

Or drag the 4Qs off the disk to an atari drive which your PC can see too and play them using Jamplayer in windows!

[ZX81v2]

Thanks MiggyMog

Blast from the past

[Mug UK]

ZX81v2 - welcome aboard and thanks for the kind words. Hacking Quartet tunes (back in the old days) was good fun. A bit easier now using STEEM but it must be a few years since I've attempted any

[lotek_style]

Thanks MiggyMog! Well separation is not necessary. WinJam 2.1 replays .4Q on PC

[lotek_style]

Btw... if somebody has following sparking tunes from PP Menus - 39, 43, 45 Please post them here

[lotek_style]

btw... what is SPARKY's realname? I have two in my List:

-Sparky, Pompey Pirates, Dan Panke, UK, n/a, n/a

(Sparky, Pompey Pirates, Jim Thomsom, USA, n/a)

??

[nativ]

think Sparky was UK

[lotek_style]

Yeah well I think so too but that does still not confirm one of the names... not sure if any of the info is correct.

[Hippy Dave]

Hi lotek_style,

Your first comment (the 13th) to this thread in 2004 has an attachment called sparky.zip
which contains SPARKY01.MSA and SPARKY02.MSA.

I believe that the answers to the Missing music and to who Sparky really is; have been here
the whole time just waiting to be discovered!

I've discovered that there is a player on each disk for the Excellent music contained within.

[lotek_style]

Sorry... there is NOTHING on that disks that 100% confirms who is Sparky.... The Player doc-files tells DAN PANKE as the creator of the utilities but is HE really SPARKY? Sorry there is NO evidence.

[Mug UK]

Dan Panke was a coder of (mainly GFA) utils. When I was in contact with him he made no suggestions that he was Sparky.

Sent from my rooted & upgraded Galaxy S2

[lotek_style]

Well also Dan Panke was from Canada... I think Sparky was from UK

[Elrond]

btw... what is SPARKY's realname? I have two in my List:
-Sparky, Pompey Pirates, Dan Panke, UK, n/a, n/a
(Sparky, Pompey Pirates, Jim Thomsom, USA, n/a)
??

Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I wanted to clear up the mystery about Sparky. Jim Thomson, USA is the correct answer. My dad!

[lotek_style]

Thanks a lot Is he still around? Has he maybe any old unreleased musics lying around?

Are we allowed to put his realname into our DB?

http://demozoo.org/sceners/2537/

[Elrond]

Sure, that's fine! It looks like you have the same two Quartet Music Collections that I have. Unfortunately that's all there is. Currently he is a composer for TV. I still have his Atari ST. I love it.

[catmando]

Did anyone ever find out the Alien's real name?

[Mug UK]

Did anyone ever find out the Alien's real name?

From what I remember he was the coder behind quite a few ZX Spectrum utils when emulators first came out.

Sent by my Note III

[lotek_style]

I doubt that he wants his real name spread over the net

[punkrulesok]

no of course not, but it would be cool to hear what these guys are up to now

[catmando]

Did anyone ever find out the Alien's real name?

From what I remember he was the coder behind quite a few ZX Spectrum utils when emulators first came out.

Sent by my Note III

Any hints as to what these spectrum utils might be?

[Mug UK]

I doubt that he wants his real name spread over the net

As Lotek says above

Sent by my Note III