Cerulean / David Whittaker Contact Message
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Current E-mail address for David Whittaker does not work. To: David Whittaker <DialogueGuru @ ntlworld . com> Dear Mr Whittaker My name is Simon Osborne, and I am writing on behalf of Project Aon, a group of admirers of the fictional world of Magnamund, including the computer game Lone Wolf--The Mirror of Death which we believe you composed music for. (If you are not the same David Whittaker who composed music for this computer game, we would still like to hear back from you so that we do not contact you again in error. In case you were wondering, we found this E-mail address via the Wayback Machine pointing at your website <http://davidwhittaker.co.uk>(approve sites).) You may be aware that Joe Dever's Lone Wolf books have gone out of print, and that the copyright to the text has reverted to the author, Joe Dever, and the copyrights for the illustrations have reverted to the various illustrators involved. In December 1999, Mr. Dever contacted some of his long-time fans who have maintained web sites devoted to Magnamund, granting them permission to make web editions of related books available, provided it was not done for any form of commercial profit. His grant, however, was limited strictly to the text, and does not cover works by other companies done under license without their explicit permission. We are doing our best to ensure that such rare works do not become completely unavailable and have already published many of the original gamebooks, as well as Lone Wolf-based magazine adverts and articles that have graced role-playing periodicals over the years. We have also made available PDF versions of the Lone Wolf Club Newsletters, which were published between 1985 and 1996, and were originally only available to members of the Lone Wolf Club. Our website is maintained here: http://www.projectaon.org We are, therefore, seeking your permission to include copies of the music for the game Lone Wolf--The Mirror of Death as a download from our website. The music that has been ripped from the Spectrum 128K version of the game is in VTX format, and we also have a SID file of the Commodore 64/128 music. If you are amenable to this, these files will be distributed free-of-charge from our website to appreciative fans everywhere. We would be interested in any information/memories, however brief, you may have about the creation of this game and its music. Also, if you happen to have a copy of the music in its original form (we are aware this is extremely unlikely), would you be able to send us a copy of it so that fans may hear the music in its full glory? We offer the promise that Project Aon will never profit financially from such material. So far, artists Rob Adams, Paul Bonner, Gary Chalk, Melvyn Grant, Pete Lyon, Graham Round, and Brian Williams have all given their permission for us to distribute their work, as has author Ian Page. We have also contacted sculptor Roger Andrews, who is kindly going to send us photographs of his Lone Wolf statuettes. It is our hope that this broad availability will serve to make a new generation of fans aware of the titles which we have found to be so enjoyable. Please let us know whether or not we have your permission to include your work in this way. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. The volunteers of Project Aon can be reached most simply via our contact web page: http://www.projectaon.org/en/Main/Contact If you would rather, feel free to write me back at this E-mail address, and I will pass the substance of your remarks on to the rest of the staff. On behalf of Project Aon, I thank you for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you. Sincere regards, Simon Osborne |
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