Spikey

Hey folks, Something occured to me. In my hiatus from the SQ community from 2007-present, I released a SQ5 Soundtrack CD in late 2010. (Finally- I had a beta CD worked out in the days of the SSC and JT-mkI, circa 2005). You can find it here: http://www.sierramusiccentral.com/sq5cd/ For those who don't know me or my website, or are wondering why another soundtrack is out there, all previous (to my knowledge, 2) SQ5 soundtrack recordings were mostly just the original General MIDI audio recorded (in QuestStudios' case, there are a couple of additional enhancements, but mostly the original stuff). This soundtrack recording is enhanced greatly over what you will hear in-game. I'm not bold enough to call it orchestral in quality, but it's certainly much more orchestrated from what the original resources are. Additionally, it contains all the music from the game. Not all the SFX mind you, but all the music. There's even a bonus at the end that contains misc audio, and even an alternate death theme from the beta version of SQ5. Anyone who wants the original MIDI files or my enhanced CD MIDI files (the latter probably won't be useful to most, but still, there if you want it), just hit me up. Regards, - Spike

As I said on many a SubChan thread.. lol.

I don't dislike GOG, I think they serve a purpose. But for someone who has legal and illegal copies of pretty much every adventure game he cares about, it just doesn't have a lot of appeal for me. Don't get me wrong- It's good for the community to have a legal place for new adopters of old games to get them, for sure.

Good to see a thread like this. I once posted about a similar idea on Abandonia, and got my ass handed to me. Except, some of the forum mods at Abandonia were preaching ideals like, and keep in mind this was an abandonware community, pirating games from 20 years old is like *stealing a car from somebody*. People (in the retro gaming community) have all kinds of idiotic views about IP, copyright, abandonware and it's highly frustrating. The very notion of paying for something we've mostly all paid for a zillion times (how many times have I bought a SQ4 disk or CD version? I shudder to think), is abhorrent to me. Especially when the money goes to GOG or Acti. I don't have a problem with forum mods in places keeping it somewhat hush hush so their forum doesn't get closed. That's smart business (smarter than me apparently). But lots of forums won't allow any discussion about it whatsoever. You would think, especially as time has marched on, the percentage of people who played, say, SQ4 in the last decade mostly pirated the game versus buying it on eBay/Amazon/Galaxy Galleria Mall. So by shutting out these people, you would think this shuts out later-adopting fans of adventure games. Now, I take Collector's point. But guys like Crowe and Murphy, and Al Lowe/etc, are making money in new ways, they're not basing new IP off of sales of collections on Amazon (at least I hope not). I also would think that Activision would put a higher price on IP that is popular, rather than one that people are pirating and they're not getting any revenue anyway. But we're getting into longbow territory now, and not a Conquest-brand one (whoops, QFG joke not SQ). Rant over! Poke holes as needed.

+1. Good to see a lot of people in this thread.

I just finished SQ4 again today (first time in about 8 years I think). Kinda weird, all the things I missed, like sexual references and TONS of click events. I went through the beta's resources today also and came up with what I think is an alt. ending. Lots of interesting things all round.

I kinda doubt the 2Guys came up with "Space Quest" anyway, as far as a name goes, I'd think it was a Ken Williams branding strategy in hand with KQ, PQ etc.

If this is legit, I get the feeling this guy is really busy, hence the 'I'm here/I'm not' deal. Hopefully when he gets a chance he'll be back. - Spike

Good point, something like "Space Quest: The Legend Continues", or if SQ is a problem, "A Janitor's Tale" or some such :D Seriously, looking forward to those screenies. I think Kurdt got me excited about SQ again. - Spike

Maybe you could become a forum member also, "SQFan81" :D (And I see you eventually have, good man.) Looking forward to the update. :) I'm starting to get excited about this new one, it has been ages since even I saw anything new Sierra related, let alone SQ. - Spike

http://www.smc.sq7.org/assorted/spikenew.gi Where the URL is the text in the middle. I deleted the f of 'gif' so it wouldn't pop up. For example: - Spike

Hey folks, Feel free to continue the SQ7 beta thread in this new one, since the previous one was derailed. The original poster, "darealdeal" has so far said: And later: Other discussion includes the potential of it being a hoax, which hasn't come to anything. While I reserve my scepticism there's no point being overly cynical as yet, since there's no evidence either way. The guy seems nice enough :D So, carry on! - Spike

Hey man, I'll check it out in a minute and let you know. Out of interest, what's your preferred way to be reached? Finally, you're welcome to post about this on my forums if you want further exposure. Regards, and good to see you still updating, - Spike

I've never heard of that with ANY Sierra game. CDA is an audio file format, when you burn music to a normal audio CD, it becomes a CDA CD (otherwise known as an audio CD). I'm curious, why do you ask? - Spike

As much as I didn't want to post in such a thread, I'm curious- what pyjamas do you guys wear in public? I'm assuming, not pink ones or anything that'd stand out. But then again, knowing you guys, maybe yes. - Spike

Actually Grappa, "Johnny B Goode" is by Chuck Berry. :( A Sierra song that IS a ripoff of it is "Larry Be Bad" from LSL6, though. :) - Spike