Jori Olkkonen

Jori Olkkonen (born 1968), current name Petrik Salovaara and known in the demoscene as Yip/Pure-Byte, is one of the most widely known Finnish computer game musicians of the 1980s, making music for the Commodore 64. His probably most widely known piece of music is 5th Dream About Happiness, which was first published in the Pure-Byte demo Scroll Machine and later used in the high-score list music of the game BMX Kidz (the main game music was composed by Rob Hubbard). Olkkonen also made the music for Jukka Tapanimäki's game Netherworld and Pasi Hytönen's game Uuno Turhapuro muuttaa maalle. Olkkonen also wrote for Finnish computer magazines. The listing for C64 music editor he coded and used, Megasound, was also published in C-lehti.
The famous Omega Man song was recently confirmed by Yip to be NOT his. The title screen from the game it originates from (TimeTrax) clearly assigns the tune to the programmer Paul Clansey.
He later changed his name to Petrik Salovaara when he got married.
Currently Olkkonen works for Solotes Finland Oy.

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