Index of sid/Tait_Mark/

Comments by Mark Tait himself are denoted by (MT).

FileSTIL Commentary
1943.sid    "1943 was the first commercial game I wrote the music for, and was responsible for me being offered the job at Tiertex. The people who wrote 1943 were John Prince and Donald ?????? (sorry can't remember his last name). They partnered up and started Tiertex in 1987/8, and offered me the job as musician. There were only 5 of us in the company at that time, and we were writing only for Capcom/US Gold, working mainly on arcade conversions." (MT)
Better_Dead_Than_Alien.sid    It is not a straight remix, but it's based on it.
Black_Tiger.sid   
Call_Me_Psycho.sid    Also used in the demo "Billy Bubbles II".
Digi_Concert.sid   
Dominion.sid   
Dynasty_Wars.sid    Does not cover the arcade version.
E-Motion.sid   
Galaxia_7.sid    "I cannot remember giving my permission for it to be used in a computer game. It was a Compunet demo I uploaded in about 1986/7 which I can only assume was ripped [...] but I did not receive any payment from any sales of it." (MT)
Human_Killing_Machine.sid    The whole music shows a big resemblance to this tune, especially the bassline and the arpeggios. "I will freely admit to Rob Hubbard and Martin Galway being my biggest influences of the time (as far as computer games were concerned), and I will not deny at all that their music had a certain influence on me. I truly wish however, that no-one thinks that I was ever copying them. If any of their sounds or productions in general rubbed off on me, I can only hope that they thought of me as a fan, and not as a plagarist." (MT)
Last_Crusade.sid    "... for the Last Crusade we got the original John Williams handwritten score of the main theme from the film. That's what I worked from to produce the music for the games (C64 and pc, Amiga, ST etc etc etc). [...] I was quite proud of that, if no one else was." (MT)
Last_Duel.sid   
Mix-e-concert.sid    The original demo has a selector where you can change drums, bass, and lead voices. Each has four variations, making 4*4*4=64 possible combinations.
Music_Demo_2.sid   
Music_Demo_3.sid   
Music_Demo_4.sid   
Music_Demo_5.sid   
Music_Demo_6.sid   
No_Scolly.sid   
Protector.sid    "I do remember the music, just not the permission to use it in a game." (MT)
Protege.sid   
Spacebike.sid    "I do remember the music, just not the permission to use it in a game." (MT)
Strider.sid    The same music was used in the sequel, Strider II. Based on the arcade version by Junko Tamitani. "I left before Strider II was even ever mentioned (I'm sure howere it was given the 'inhouse name of ' TOR, although I honestly cannot remember what TOR stood for (although I do remeber proucing a killer of a soundtrack which was recorded on an Akai X7000,and was, even by my standards, probably the best soundtrack thet was ever produced from Tiertex TOR is machine)." (MT)
Superman.sid   
Thunder_Blade.sid    "Thunder Blades music was produced over night. It was decided that a demo of a level would be appearing on the cover of Zzap! 64. The actual C64 game was not written by Tiertex (although the other versions were), it was a guy called Chris someone. As I remember, he credited everyone but me!" (MT) (Chris someone = Chris Butler)
Thunder_Hawk.sid   
Trumpet.sid