51

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

I can see how Albert can make a case for Bianka Desch, vague posts relating to Sal's and Jonathan's situation, harassing people. However, Jaraslav Popovic so far has not replied to my private message, and nothing has been proven about him harassing anyone. Now, what is going on with Donald Stanley? He was 1 of 4000+ in my group. He just makes a post about insane crap people post on Facebook, then suddenly Albert claims it's "mine" account. How many other people are being watched in my group or from my friends list? Are you saying just these people are the only ones posted on Facebook, and millions of other people did not? This must be a full time for Albert. Again, where is proof that Donald is doing something to someone? Is this how you plan to take down our business? Yeah, I can see where this is going?

52

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

I determined Jaroslav Popovic was not in many of the other Atari groups simply by having members lists searched, just like you determined he was in my group. There are a few groups that I had not been blocked from and I can have a friends search in others.  I am assuming he got blocked from everywhere except my group. A private message was sent to him today to see if he responds, it may be possible it is an abandoned account. I am going to give him some time, if no one responds, I will remove him from my group. There is not much in his profile other than a photo of an XEGS Keyboard, a 800XL computer, and a pixelated photo. I sent him a private message about my group about a week before he joined mine in 2012. He must have been in another Atari group at some point. Not consistent with what was seen with these other accounts. Going by membership and a single like does not prove he is one of my fake accounts.

53

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

I apologize for all the drama that was centered because of this sound gap issues, and fixing up games making them more presentable before release has become more of an effort. I wish to thank everyone for letting me know what is going on. I was even had to save the audio track and analyze the recording with Audacity. I was wondering why I could not get the sound-gap at other measurement than one TV frame, until I tried writing 0s to the POKEY sound registers, then the gaps ended up being under 0.01 second. There are points in the game where it needs to stop the music, inflate a new RMT file into RAM before continuing with a new screen. This is only done when entering one of those screens. Otherwise, it just has an extra RMT play call during the new screen draw period.
Now if this is about an account under the name Jaroslav Popovic, I would be happy to delete it, if I had the login credentials and password. I know he has been blocked from all the other Atari Facebook groups except mine, never posted anything. Could be someone spying on me. Those damn Russkies are at it again, now they are trying to steal our secrets. Without any more information about this person, I am not taking any actions.

54

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

The Facebook accounts mentioned have been gone now. What is most important that these accounts are offline and currently not a problem.

55

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

Secretum Labyrinth Dark Castles is a complicated Role Playing Game with hundreds lines of code, and there were a few issues that I figured out how to solve and make it work better. The sound gap issue was never considered major, as it was never known to crash the system while running on real hardware. I did look into the matter last year because Video61 and I were looking to release this game soon.
What I discovered, a call to RMT Silence will cause RMT to be silent for one RMT Play call, until another RMT Play call is made. It was better to just write 0s to the Pokey Registers so the next RMT Play will immediately make a sound. The new screen draw does not contain many loop processes that run very long, so checking the VCOUNT thing would not have worked. It was easier to look at the processes during new screen draw and estimate where the program is at when a new frame starts, and add a RMT Play Call. This was a very simple fix to the sound gap issue. The final version will run without any disturbing sound gaps.

56

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

I believe everyone here, and within the Atari community, can be sure I am the programmer for Tempest Xtreme and Venture, and other games. They seen my posts for years about games, and would not doubt my programming skills that put those games together. That is very well established.
I avoided discussing Sal because of the controversial nature of the subject, but since it has been bought up repeatedly attempting to accuse me of harassing him.
It is interesting, one can claim that he does not know why Sal got the boot from Lance around March 2015, especially when they were involved with the reason. If Albert has any concerns about my claim that Sal pestering Lance about selling stuff to Albert, then Albert should send Lance an email to get his side of the story. After the Retro Portland Game Expo's back in 2012, Sal admitted to me that he met Albert at the Expo, and I also have witness reports to them talking to each other. Sal the next day after the expo, started asking Lance to sale parts to Albert.
When we worked together on Tempest Xtreme, Sal had people beta testing the game for us, long before Lance decided to have people under non-disclosure. It helped me get the game working correctly. When we moved on to Venture, and I wanted beta testers involved, Sal got real nasty with me, and with people I was emailing, and wanted to handle all the beta testing himself. When bugs were reported on AtariAge, I got upset about it, and did send some ROMS to trusties, that resulted in Sal flipping out, and asked Lance to terminate me from the partnership. But as everyone knows, I was the one providing Lance with game programs and what side Lance will take. I already had several more games in the works that Sal wanted to put a stop to. When that did not happen, things went further south with Sal.
The last straw was when it was discovered Sal passed along source code and ROMS. Something happened that made Sal come running to Lance, asking for a lawyer. So Lance asked what happened. Lance must have been upset, and asked Sal to pay back owed debt. Sal passed along copies of game ROMS and Source code to people he knows from AtariAge forum, who he showed them to. Some of them must have threatened him to pass along pirated copies, and make a claim that I was the one who stolen the source code for these games from someone else. Since Sal could not pay, Sal was requested to sign Atlantis Games Group over to Lance, and will no longer receive royalty payments. I was not told immediately what happened, only told that Sal was in poor health and could not continue working with us, and told not to write to Sal.
At this time, I am not going get into the phone conversations I had with Sal in 2017. If Albert has concerns about what I posted so far, he may contact Video61.

57

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

Alright then, I will continue showing the Atari community the games I am working on and hopefully get some feedback that may help make the games better before they are complete. It is good to communicate with our customers. That is the important thing with porting Work-in-Progress Videos.

58

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

I will no longer discuss those accounts that were alleged to be under my control. They are gone now.
What started this whole thing was something about my work-in-progress videos that people like to see. Someone posted on AtariAge that my videos should not be included of games in progress unbiased list and should be censored, then I posted on Facebook about with my opinion about it. I looked things over, and do see some additional things that may be provoking the situation such as the amount of videos I post of different games I am working on.  Going forward, I am going to reduce to about one video every 2 weeks as a guideline. I am going wait until games are more complete before posting videos. I know my Youtube account is monitored for work-in-progress videos now. It could also be about captions and extra watermarks, but people need to get back to me about their concerns.

59

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

At this time, I am not disclosing everything that happened with Sal. We have dealt personally with Sal for many years. With what happened after Video61 decided to terminate Sal's business relationship, why Video61 did not want to continue working with him, and what I learned, anyone will understand my feelings about him afterward. He has a history of betrayal not only with us, but several others I speak with. We have plenty of proof, dated documents, witnesses, and know who he got involved with.

60

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

I left the post up just long enough to see if anyone came forward with some information. People were posting replies to the post and I also took it down so the hostile party involved has less information. After seeing a separate posted on January 6 by a Facebook user claiming that is sending friend requests across separate social media networks directed at high-end men and women, attracting them, providing false information to turn people against each other, and scamming people for money, should tell you that this is something not in my best interest and something I have no history of doing.
The account did disappear, and hopefully my post would serve as a deterrent. The party involved might have been observing us for years, and know what is going on.
I will point out, the two samples provided were posted on her wall, not directed at anyone specific, and did not mention names. The majority of the people reading it probably didn't know who she was talking about. Why was this person being monitored in the first place? From the feedback I got, most of her posts were unrelated to stuff I post about.

61

(33 odpowiedzi, napisanych Bałagan)

Earlier today, got word back about this Barbara or Bianka Dobrosso. Looks like a scam artist may be at work. Changed her date of birth, name, making friend requests of people with high incomes, and also operating on other social media networks. It is known that perpetrators observe others on social media, and sometimes mimic others.
People that known me for years, should know my interests would involve "shilling" my games or having a few words with people I don't like. The only social network I use is Facebook.  But she is not doing any of that, but doing something far worse. People also know I work in security, and have experience dealing with such scumbags.

We working with Video61 and PeteyM5 on game projects wish to provide good quality and fun software for everyone to enjoy. That is our established goal. We do not wish to spend much time debating involving the choice of Video 61 to distribute game programs on cartridge only.
I would start with an apology for sending Jonathan Halliday and Albert Yarusso malicious and disturbing messages or for making public posts. Now they can discuss with me directly, maybe future problems can be avoided.
If those Facebook accounts that were causing concerns have disappeared, deleted, been blocked, disable by Facebook, then they are no longer a problem or should be a problem in the future. Does not matter if I had control over them or not.
I know I have expressed concerns about the security of copyrighted materials and sensitive information. I have investigated reported incidents. For those that engage in bootleg or piracy activities, know this, WE already know who you are, and WE will be watching.

63

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

Discussion about my defense here has been terminated. I will continue with discussions only about software I am developing. I may create a topic in that subforum when I have time in the future.
I moved discussion to: http://www.atari.org.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?id=18992
I discovered something disturbing about someone that was alleged to be a fake account of mine.

64

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

This is in response to Facebook accounts list. I also never stated that was I that deleted most of those accounts. I know a few disappeared and I had no control over that. Some of those listed like “April Roberts”, “Babara Dobrosso”, “Jaraslav Popovic”, “Joe Anamolous”, and “Peter Option M” were accounts that I either had no control over or did not know they existed until Albert listed them. I have no idea about malicious statements they posted or who they were harassing. It did not come from me. Also, no proof has not been posted about those particular accounts that link them to me.
Perhaps, I feel that I am also expressing my opinion within my Facebook group or on my “wall.” I feel I am invoking my first amendment rights. On my account timeline, most of my postings do not involve Atari.
Yes, I admit I have shown paranoia about piracy, and I discovered it was happening for real. There were attempts to fraud us, I have been approached to sell my game ROMS, and discovered later the same parties were selling bootleg copies of game ROMS. Good thing I sent them sample fake ROM files. Friends alerted me to their activity, I investigated and confirmed, as they did not know they were talking to me. Some games are the ones sold by Video61 and AtariAge. I did call them out and blocked them and taken down accounts used for investigation. No one wants to see anyone loosing money here because the hard work we do. I will do whatever I can do to protect copyrighted materials, even if it involves an impression that I still have something going on with social media.

65

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

As long as we do not smoke that weed where this thread ended up. I had removed many of the Facebook posts that were of a concern. Facebooks accounts were terminated that I had control over. Anything else monitored are not mine.

66

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

I have also been requested from Video61 not to continue responding or defending here. Someone emailed Video61 earlier today.
I will continue with my hobby of making Atari video games. A few months ago, I did put forward an idea of taking the Turbo Basic version of Megaoids, port it to Fast Basic + Assembly, and use VBXE graphics. This will not be a retail project, as the market for VBXE is more limited in an already limited market. It may be my next Github Fast Basic project.
A few years ago, I noticed there were not many good samples for Atari Fast Basic (Integer) so I did a few to learn the language myself and provide what I used to learned from as samples to others.

67

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

Perhaps an attorney needs to contact Albert and Metaguy66 again. If I recall, this whole thing was about a version of SpartaDOSX cartridge modified to work with certain devices. I know Sal got nasty with Metalguy66. I stayed away from it. There were no problem between myself and Metaguy until I tried to have him fix my Atari MIO device and I became aware with what was happening.
The only one I can confirm still existing is "Jaraslav Popovic" and is not one of my accounts. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id … p;sk=about
All the other ones are long gone, mine or not, are long gone. The ones that FJC had problems with were deleted last year, and are no longer a problem.
I am not sure what was going on with the forum in 2021. I am aware in another post Albert said something about the beginning of 2021. What was the name on the account, and what did he post?

68

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

A request about bullying examples: Start with this https://forums.atariage.com/topic/26412 … -routines/
I was having productive conversations with members there before stating that compressed data is harder to hack, like using a hex editor to change. Then the thread got flooded with attacks against me, accusing me of calling people pirates (again), links to YouTube videos, etc. It got to the point that I reported it, and created a separate thread in the programming area. I consider responses as bullying when replies become not about the game or main subject, but are there just to insult or provoke the author of the thread. Taunting a negative response. I have not gone through the Venture thread on AtariAge yet, but I guarantee I will find a lot of harassment there against myself, Lance, and Sal (at the time.)
It appears the facts surrounding me changing my screen name here are open to interpretation and we have different opions if I was truthful or not. I still have my actual emails, and keeping it as evidence.
Most of those Facebook accounts had been deleted years ago. I know a few were not mine at all. (Peter Option M, Joe Anomalous, Jaroslav Popovic, April Roberts) One did attempt to join my group and my moderator alerted me suspecting it was fake. I sent them a PM, and confirmed he was real.

69

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

http://www.atari.org.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?id=18941
http://www.atari.org.pl/forum/viewtopic … 94#p293694

I have released many cartridge games with Video61 that had been discussed on Atari.IO and Facebook.
I am starting with Dark Castles and waiting to see if anyone responds. Recently edited to include a Polish translation to make it easier for members here to read. When I have some time later, I may add more topics related to games I currently have in progress.
I also have many Atari open source games on Github, which I already linked to on here.

https://github.com/PJM-NCC-70511

70

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

BartoszP napisał/a:
PeteyM5 napisał/a:

...There are other reasons why I did this, as I do see people here were also interested in my stuff...

What are "the other reasons"? How do you measure that people are interested in your stuff?

When I start doing work on Atari 8-bit games, I will post about them in the Atari 8-bit area. Maybe I should include a Polish translation. People have already asked about my games in this thread.

Kiedy zacznę pracować nad grami na Atari 8-bit, zamieszczę o nich post w dziale Atari 8-bit. Może powinienem dołączyć polskie tłumaczenie. W tym wątku ludzie już pytali o moje gry.

71

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

Albert, it is nice to see you also.
Let me start by stating two things. I did attempt to make only one new account here around December 29, 2022 using "PeteyM5" as I did want to use the screen name I am known by on other locations. The forum admins contacted and informed this was in violation of rules. Asked if I wanted to them to delete "PilotZmii." I did make the request to remove PilotZmii. The Admins instead just changed my screenname from PilotZmii to PeteyM5. I did not have to do this. There are other reasons why I did this, as I do see people here may be interested in my games and programming. So, it may be better for people to know it is me here with future posts.
The other issue with Atari.IO. Only one attempt to create a fake account was ever made, back in 2016. Justin Scott caught it, and just deleted the account. Justin was also upset that I posted in anger on his forum about being banned on AtariAge. He asked Lance to moderate my posts for a while on Atari.IO. Now, I am currently under agreement with Lance and Justin, not to mention AtariAge on Atari.IO, directly or by description.
Sometime in common with allegations about Atari Area and Atari.IO is that they are exaggerated beyond actual fact and occurring more recently than events actually happened. I am not in a Court room here and do not need to prepare a longer defense here.
Issues regarding Facebook. Seems like I am being requested to remove posts and these alleged accounts. Can I expect something in exchange if I do so? It would take me awhile, but going to start with some recent posts.

72

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

I decided to go by PeteyM5 as of December 31, 2023, and would like to extend my communication with the Atari community. Feed back is important, and past criticism has been reviewed for ideas for how to improve the games I write.  Video61 does sell my games by cartridge only, and I am aware this is the main source of resentment from some community members. Therefore, it is beneficial that I make the best for these cartridge games so they can be enjoyed to play.

I have provided some free open source games on Github using languages like Fast Basic, Mad Pascal, CC65, and some assembly. I did these projects to help myself learn those other languages, and decided to provide them to help others. I left those completely open, even at Video61's objection. These could someday be ported to cartridge games, so consider them a demo to what may come at some future time.

https://github.com/PJM-NCC-70511

73

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

Looks like I am being libeled here with false allegations. I can use any screen name when signing in to a forum for the first time. I have accounts on forums elsewhere under a different profile name. It was originally done to avoid problems I had with AtariAge members do not follow me here.  I had accounts on PC gaming forums for years under a different profile name. I had posts here that does not have anything related what is going with FJC. I could have just stuck with PilotZMii if I wanted to. Also, I have my email with the forum admins that proves the facts that I did make the request myself. The facts FJC is stating are hearsay and are of his opinion.

Peter Meyer <peterjm0511@gmail.com>
Dec 29, 2022, 1:29 PM
to Daniel

I would like to phase out the PilotZmii account and use PeteyM5 as my main account going forward. I am known by that screen name in other groups and forums. You may delete the old account.

Daniel
Dec 29, 2022, 2:24 PM
Hi, I can change your username PilotZmii → PeteyM5 if you want. Regards,

Peter Meyer
Dec 29, 2022, 2:44 PM
Please do, I am sure people will be pleased to see me.
Daniel

Dec 31, 2022, 6:58 AM
to me

Hi Peter,
I have changed your username to PeteyM5. Your new password: (omitted) Please change it immediately for security reasons.
Have a nice day,
Daniel.

74

(881 odpowiedzi, napisanych Scena - 8bit)

I decided to make the request myself to change my screen name with the admin here. I decided it was best to let FlashJazzCat  to see who he really were talking to here. Likewise, I actually had this account here for years, but did not use it much until a few months ago when I saw you were giving other people problems. Because this forum is Polish speaking, I did not come here that often. Oh, I have known association right away because not long after Jon posted on Facebook, it did not take long for Albert to show up.
As far as I know, AtariAge was the only retro community gaming forum that I ever had issues with. I had the same Atari.IO account since 2015 and because it is admin by a friend of Lance, I never attempted to do anything else there. So, what are the forum websites that FlashJazzcat speaks about? If other forum admins had problems, it is not me. I assume that they can track IP addresses and their origin.
I am relieved FlashJazzCat is not involved with those emails that we have been receiving.
I does look like my justifications for doing stuff because of piracy, bootlegging, and passing along sensitive information, and materials were well founded. Sal owed debt to Lance, and was showing the source code for Tempest and Venture to other people. It was when someone threatened him with allegations that I stole the source code from others, he requested to get an attorney involved. There were threats to distribute the binaries that he was providing for beta testing. It was because Sal severely violated the trust we had with him, that Lance requested Sal to pay back money owed. Because Sal could not pay, Atlantis Games Group was acquired by Lance. I understand that Sal was offering Atlantis Games Group to the other popular Atari store, and the owner was furious when Lance got it. I am not going to go into detail what sort of legal issues this could had caused. Sal was deserving some nasty messages from me because of the betrayal he did to us.
The other justification comes from another individual we had problems with for years, attempted to fraud Lance. The person  came to me offering money to buy game ROMs for their personal use. I did use aliases to investigate him over two years ago on social media. When a deal fell through, he created several fake email accounts and emailed Lance. Alleging that I was using fake accounts on social media, that I was greedy because the price offered was $10 per ROM. I believe he might have created fake AtariAge and Facebook accounts to get me into trouble. This person last year was also approaching friends of mine on Facebook, offering to sell them bootleg copies of games that included ones sold by Video61. Some others could be downloaded for free elsewhere. Again, I investigated, and eventually called him out, that we are aware and watching him, before blocking him. So is FlashJazzCat going to say I was not justified for taking such actions?

75

(7 odpowiedzi, napisanych Software, Gry - 8bit)

I have been looking alternatives of how things look on screen during game play. 
One ideal is to replace the HP: (Hit Points) indicator just to the right of EP: with a bar across the top of the screen, showing hit points or health. I could still have HP: in the character detail display (Press C on keyboard during game)
I have looked into making the walls look 3D, but my early efforts did not provide promising results. I am holding back on doing this because It would be a major overhaul of the game and will take a lot of time.

Szukałem alternatyw tego, jak rzeczy wyglądają na ekranie podczas gry.
Jednym z ideałów jest zastąpienie wskaźnika HP: tuż na prawo od EP: paskiem u góry ekranu, pokazującym punkty wytrzymałości lub zdrowie. Nadal mogłem mieć HP: w widoku szczegółów postaci (naciśnij C na klawiaturze podczas gry)
Zastanawiałem się, jak sprawić, by ściany wyglądały na trójwymiarowe, ale moje wczesne wysiłki nie przyniosły obiecujących rezultatów. Wstrzymuję się z tym, ponieważ byłby to poważny przegląd gry i zająłby dużo czasu.