[PIGMI] LLamatron and Space Giraffe

[Dan Venkitachalam]

Yeah, I believe it was some animal sounds that he created by warbling into a
microphone.  The Llamasoft guys used it as a placeholder.  They later tried
to make their own set by sampling a live animal but decided it didn't sound
as good!


Dan.

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Andy Hawkins
<andyhawkins at ozemail.com.au>wrote:

>  Jeff Minter asked to use your friend's samples?  Very cool.  That's like
> Joe Satriani asking me to use of one my solos.
>
> Andy H.
>
> If it is indeed a sample I'm pretty sure he would have cleared it.  A
> friend of mine did some sounds for his own game and was contacted by Jeff
> (or Giles?) for permission to include them in Minotaur.
>
>
>  Dan.
>
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Paul Turbett (Black Lab Games) <
> paul at blacklabgames.com.au> wrote:
>
>> I think if they are the actual sound files from the Williams games, it's a
>> copyright violation. If they are created from scratch but happen to sound
>> the same, it's (probably) ok. Copyright is for the protection of the
>> expression of a idea/concept, not the idea/concept itself.
>>
>> L8r, Paul
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Hawkins
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>> Subject: [PIGMI] LLamatron and Space Giraffe
>>
>> Just been playing Minotaur by Llamasoft, and after reading his bio I
>> found about Jeff Minter's Xbox game Space Giraffe.  So I've been playing
>> that this evening.
>>
>> One thing I was curious about though was that he uses sound effects in
>> there from Defender, Blaster, Robotron and Sinistar - all Williams
>> copyright.  Is that allowed these days????
>>
>> Space Giraffe is awesome.
>>
>> Andy H.
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