Temat: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

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.

Ostatnio edytowany przez PeteyM5 (2023-02-05 15:50:42)

2

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

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.

Ostatnio edytowany przez PeteyM5 (2023-02-06 00:04:32)

3

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

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.

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

Looks like a scam artist may be at work.

Absolutely no doubt about it.

4

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

Wow, Peter, you are seriously a piece of work.  Similar to your post above, here's a post you made in your Facebook group this afternoon:

https://atariage.com/temp/Peter/Peter_6502_Barbara_Post_2023-02-05.png

Peter, the depths you will go to just astound me.  YOU are the perpetrator, and this is a twisted attempt to try and cover your tracks and pin this account on someone else.  This account is clearly owned and controlled by you.  If you do not remove this post on your group immediately, and you do not also permanently delete that Facebook account, I am going to start posting all the screenshots we've made with this account over time to clearly demonstrate how this account is YOU, how everything posted by this account is YOU, and which will show beyond a reasonable doubt to anyone with half a brain that you are lying and doing so very openly.  And that exposés of all your other accounts will be forthcoming, along with emails you've sent people, DMs you've sent people, and so forth.

Additionally, if you do not remove that post and remove that account, once I post all the evidence that this account is yours (which I will do on AtariAge and on Facebook), I will then DM every single person you've friended with that account and point them to the thread on AtariAge, which will be the first of many, demonstrating what you have been up to these past four years.

Is that really what you want?  Because it sure seems to me that's exactly what you want.

Here's a taste of what everyone will see:

https://atariage.com/temp/Peter/BarbaraDobrosso_Sal_2022-10-08.jpg

Some background for others.  This post directly references Sal Esquivel, whom I also mentioned in the previous thread, where Peter was practically giddy that Sal was in poor health and he was eager for him to just kick off and die already.  Sal and Peter had a falling out, and Peter has spent a lot of time and energy maligning him on Facebook and also harassing Sal with direct messages and emails. 

Sal used to live in Oregon, in a trailer, and he then moved, ultimately settling in Texas, which is where he lived when he recently passed away.  Some random person on Facebook who has never interacted with Sal Esquivel before would not have known this about Sal, much less made a post of this nature about "a history of screwing people over".  This is just one of many, many examples that demonstrate Peter is a sick, twisted individual, and, again, a coward for using fake accounts to attack and defame people.

Here's another for good measure:

https://atariage.com/temp/Peter/BarbaraDobrosso_Jon_2022-10-17.jpg

This post is directed squarely at Jon Halliday, flashjazzcat.  Last year someone threw a brick through a window of Jon's home, and that is what Peter is referencing here. Again, Peter using a fake account to say hateful things, and there are a ton of posts like this about Jon across multiple sock puppet accounts Peter has created.  Also, use of the term "bully" here as Peter does ad nauseam.

So, Peter, I guess you really want to be publicly and broadly exposed for all the fake accounts you've created on Facebook over time, accounts you continue to use, accounts you've friended various people in the hobby with, who have no idea these are not real people, accounts you've used to send people harassing DMs, accounts you've used to post in your own groups, sometimes even responding to posts and comments you've made yourself, and so forth? 

It's within your power to make this stop, otherwise the floodgates are going to open.

..Al

Ostatnio edytowany przez AtariAge (2023-02-06 00:25:43)

5

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

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.

Ostatnio edytowany przez PeteyM5 (2023-02-06 18:26:43)

6

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

https://lachroniquefacile.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/820.jpg

And having read you wished death to someone, it says 1000x more than is needed.

7

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

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.

Ostatnio edytowany przez PeteyM5 (2023-02-06 20:04:51)

8

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

Why do you think we care? Stop bothering people with your fairytales, stories, grudges, 'investigations' We dont give a f**k (me at least) about all this crap. Maybe someone does - if that fuels you, you should seek some help.

"Was powinny uzbrojone służby wyciągać z domów do punktów szczepień, a potem zamykać do pi* za rozpowszechnianie zagrożenia epidemicznego" - Epi 2021
"Powinno się pałować tylko tych co tego nie rozumieją. No i nie szmatki i nie chirurgiczne tylko min FFP3, to by miało jakiś sens. U mnie we firmie, to jak przychodzi bezmaskowiec, to stoi w deszczu przed firmą" - Pin 2021

9

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

It is known that perpetrators observe others on social media, and sometimes mimic others.

https://i.imgflip.com/7a6lp5.jpg

forgive me, I could not resist

10

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

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.

Ostatnio edytowany przez PeteyM5 (2023-02-06 22:56:28)

11

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

I will no longer discuss those accounts that were alleged to be under my control. They are gone now.

Yeah, how many times have we already heard this from you, yet, here you are.  Also, just stop saying "alleged", we know it's you, and you've already admitted to creating "most" of them.  Your word is not worth anything at this point, only actions are.  As of yesterday you were still making posts to Barbara's wall.  I'm going to assume at this point you'll continue using these accounts.

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

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.

Nobody at all cares about your videos and how often you post them. The problem started with you.  Creating fake accounts on AtariAge, and then you went completely off the rails on Facebook once were (finally) banned from AtariAge after being warned not to continue creating sock puppet accounts.  What people care about are you using fake accounts to get around bans in Facebook groups from which your primary account was banned, using these accounts to intimidate and harass people (such as the posts I displayed above, which is only the tip of a huge iceberg), using these accounts to harass people via DMs on Facebook, using them in your own group to shill your own posts, and so forth.  And, of course, all the bullshit you post about AtariAge, Jon, myself, Sal, and others.  You have absolutely zero self-control, it almost seems like a game to you. 

You even harassed Sal directly on AtariAge with one of your fake accounts, and this was one you created in 2020, over a year AFTER you were banned.  These were posted on April 4, 2020. First, here are two public posts you made with the account:

https://atariage.com/temp/Peter/JacksonK72_Sal_Forum_Post_1_2020-04-06.png

https://atariage.com/temp/Peter/JacksonK72_Sal_Forum_Post_2_2020-04-06.png

And here's a private message on AtariAge Peter sent Sal using this account (Sal sent me this screenshot), also on the same day:

https://atariage.com/temp/Peter/JacksonK72_to_Sal_AtariAge_PM_2020-04-06.jpg

Good job playing the role of stalker, and this is a very common theme you repeat constantly with your Facebook sock puppets.  We probably have at least a hundred different "We are watching you!" screenshots.  You really need some help.

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

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.

Again, nobody cares at all about your videos.

And here I am, loudly expressed my "concerns", but they are clearly falling on deaf ears when you start talking about stupid shit like your videos.

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

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

Blah blah blah, more attacks against Sal, who is no longer here to even defend himself.  So you guys parted ways, you're badmouthing him without showing any proof whatsoever.  If you had "plenty of proof", etc, you would have showed your hand long ago.  And what does "who he got involved with" even mean?  You mean he actually SPOKE TO OTHER PEOPLE!  OMG!  One of those people was ME, because Sal was forwarding me all the emails you were sending him, the DMs you were using to harass him, and of course, I saw all the crap you continually post in your echo chamber 6502 Programming group on Facebook. And anywhere else you post, such as here.  And even if this all were true, your public statement gleefully awaiting for his departure from this earth demonstrates your true character.

Jacques napisał/a:

And having read you wished death to someone, it says 1000x more than is needed.

Correct!

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

I left the post up just long enough to see if anyone came forward with some information.

This was just a ruse to make it look like the account didn't belong to you.  Yeah, you posted a few things with the account so you could attempt plausible deniability, but really, it just makes it even more obvious that you were doing it just for that purpose, since you made too many other posts with this (and other) accounts that clearly show they belong to you. 

I have to wonder if the people you friended with these accounts even notice when you repeatedly rename them, give them new Facebook URLs, and change the cover and profile photos.

Please, keep posting, I'm enjoying watching you dig your hole even deeper. And I have an endless supply of screenshots showing you being a terrible and deceitful person with both your real account and all your fake accounts.

..Al

Ostatnio edytowany przez AtariAge (2023-02-07 00:06:09)

12

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

Czy ktoś może posprzątać zamykając ten wątek?

Atari 65XE, U1MB, Sophia2, AVG Cart, SIO2SD

13

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

dlaczego? warto wiedziec kto jest papużką nierozłączką :-)

http://atari.pl/hsc/ad.php?i=1.

14

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

...jak baby ze wsi normalnie.

ADRES: pin@atari.pl - konto zlikwidowane. Aktualny adres: pin(at)atari8.info

15

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

Jacques napisał/a:

And having read you wished death to someone, it says 1000x more than is needed.

To complement what Albert already posted, here's the email Sal forwarded me in December last year when he was gravely ill:

https://i.ibb.co/qCN027B/Sal-email.png

One hardly knows where to begin here, but - aside from the peak schadenfreude on display - the idea that Sal had to point out the 'music gaps' and/or that they were only made manifest by YouTube encoding or specialised analytical equipment is laughable. I remember the remarks concerning chaotic scene transitions and - latterly - glitching music; commentators became frustrated not by flaws in pre-release software, but because the author appeared totally unaware of said flaws, and - when pressed on the matter - was absolutely unwilling to acknowledge their existence, resorting to such ridiculous extremes as accusing viewers of playing the YT video back at half-speed in an attempt to magnify problems that were already impossible to overlook anyway.

The normal transaction is that one offers one's work for appraisal (and I assume anyone publicising a YouTube video of their game wants it to be appraised), receives constructive criticism, separates bugs from feature requests and subjective value judgements, acknowledges any issues, and fixes the problems. But if the author is capable of bearing a grudge regarding comments on 'gaps in the music' (something which would have long ago been forgotten by all observers had Peter himself not taken every available opportunity to remind them) for three or four years, such that he is determined to this day to 'throw it back in their faces' by way of vengeance, I have to wonder why they participate in online activities of any kind, given how badly they react to bug reports and constructive criticism.

Instead of blaming a specious AtariAge conspiracy for the negative feedback received regarding game presentation, bugs, cartridge labels, etc, it might be better to blame the game presentation, bugs, and cartridge labels, as well as the flagrant shilling employed to misrepresent the public reaction to demos and products. I don't think Peter is personally sympathetic to the kind of victim-status endlessly peddled in today's society by those incapable of being criticised, and yet he seeks to 'play the victim' in exactly the same way. Speaking for myself, it's not that I have any particular desire to endlessly regurgitate a synopsis of events which happened three years ago, and it would have faded from memory by now had Peter not persisted in sending me DMs, emails and friend requests using sock-puppet Facebook and email accounts to get around the fact I had blocked his main account and - latterly - each sock-puppet account from which I received unsolicited messages. Well, let's call it what it is: spam. Normally spam is impersonal and goes in the junk mail folder, but since I knew (and have known for three years) damn well who was originating all this stuff, I'm afraid it has to be dealt with at source.

Ostatnio edytowany przez flashjazzcat (2023-02-07 14:06:18)

16

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

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.

17

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

żona, cała roztrzęsiona dzwoniła, jest w szoku co tu się wyrabia

http://atari.pl/hsc/ad.php?i=1.

18

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

That email Peter sent Sal is ridiculous on so many fronts.  First, he wastes no time in bringing up Sal's poor health and, "No one can really figure out how long you have in this world."  Wow, really nice, again demonstrating your wonderful character.  Second, I've already explained multiple times why Peter was banned from the forum (he was creating multiple sock puppet accounts over a period of years, I warned him to stop, he did not, he was banned, simple as that).  This was done entirely by myself, with no input from others.  There was no cabal trying to get Peter banned from the forum, he is entirely to blame for that.

Second, I know nothing about any attempts to have Lance "sell parts to Albert", I already had everything I needed to make and sell games for Atari 8-bit computers, as well as various other platforms, so this makes no sense at all.  And the only one of Peter's games that we discussed selling in the AtariAge Store (at least with me as part of the conversation) was Venture, and that never went very far (thankfully, in hindsight). 

Additionally, the above email wasn't the only one Peter sent to Sal in 2022 (contrary to the email above), here's one from the end of February, this time using the name Marie Joseph with yet another email account:

https://atariage.com/temp/Peter/Peter_MarieJoseph_Email_To_Sal_2022-0w-26.png

Love Peter's admission about renaming Facebook accounts, including changing the URL, both of which I've mentioned on this forum.  Fortunately, it's trivial to see when this is done, so I guess Peter failed at his attempts to "mess with them" on this front.

And here's Peter harassing Sal with his "Jake Arthur" persona, which has also harassed Jon, this time on YouTube.  And, yeah, another instance of the "We are watching you" intimidation.

https://atariage.com/temp/Peter/JakeArthur_YouTube_Sal_2022-03-13.png

Here's the email "Jake Arthur" sent to Jon in December, again demonstrating Peter being pleased with Sal's death, as he would no longer be "a problem to some people."  And again with the, "I have been observing you for a long time." 

https://atariage.com/temp/Peter/Peter_JakeArthur_Email_To_Jon_2022-12-24.png

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

Alright then, I will continue showing the Atari community the games I am working on

Good, focus on your games, stop being the bully you claim others to be, stop harassing people, and stop using fake accounts to do so.

..Al

19

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

xxl napisał/a:

żona, cała roztrzęsiona dzwoniła, jest w szoku co tu się wyrabia

https://i.ibb.co/9sg5f0C/Participation-trophy.jpg

20

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

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.

Ostatnio edytowany przez PeteyM5 (2023-02-07 21:35:14)

21

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

Peter,

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

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.

Nobody has said otherwise, so I'm not sure why you're even bringing this up.

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

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's only controversial because you have made it so.  And, yes, you clearly harassed him, and there's considerably more than what I've already posted to this forum.  Continue with your current behavior, and you and everyone else in the retro gaming community will get to read about what you've been doing the past four years in full detail, with a hundred times more evidence than what has already been posted.

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.

I did not pay attention to what you, Lance, and Sal were doing very closely back then.  And who cares if I spoke to Sal at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo?  It's very doubtful we spoke about you back then at all.  Sal loaned me Commodore 1702 monitors for years at PRGE, and discussions about that, his booth, my booth, and topics about the show are mostly what we spoke about when we were both at the show together.  I talk to HUNDREDS of people at events like this.  I'm really going to just start calling you a stalker.  And I never asked Sal to ask Lance to sell me parts to sell me "parts", whatever that means.  If I was going to ask him anything, back then, it would be if he had any Atari 8-bit cartridge shells.  I already had boards and all the other parts to build 8-bit games, and I was recycling 8-bit shells at the time, which was a pain.  And even if that did transpire as you described, so what?  How the heck would that even be controversial in any way?

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

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.

I don't care about this at all, and it's completely irrelevant to the bigger issue, which you are, of course, avoiding, and that's your use of sock puppet accounts pretty much everywhere you go, and what they use them for (which I won't repeat AGAIN).  FFS, this happened years ago, Sal is now dead, just fucking drop it already, nobody cares!  It has no relevance now, and none of what you have written excuses your behavior with your fake accounts on AtariAge, Facebook, and elsewhere.

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

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.

Don't care, read above.

I'd like to stop posting here, so please stop giving me reasons to.  I'm sure everyone else would appreciate that as well.  Please heed my warnings about your continued use of fake accounts.  Focus on your games.  Stop harassing people.  Stop creating drama.

Thank you,

..Al

22

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

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.

Ostatnio edytowany przez PeteyM5 (2023-02-08 01:50:50)

23

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

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

Ostatnio edytowany przez PeteyM5 (2023-02-08 02:46:27)

24

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

PeteyM5 napisał/a:

The sound gap issue was never considered major, as it was never known to crash the system while running on real hardware.

Indeed. What we might call 'cosmetic' issues are less critical than bugs which cause crashing, but once your software doesn't crash, the next thing is to improve the presentation. The most noticeable thing about the presentation happened to be the gaps in the music, and normally it would be enough for one person to pass remark on this, and for the problem to be acknowledged by you (as it now is, some years later) and added to the 'known issues' list. But no: you chose to deny the problem existed and claimed that people were slowing the video down in order to manufacture problems where none existed, which in turn caused more commentators to remark 'No - the problem exists and is quite easy to spot'. You're responsible for turning something relatively insignificant into a point of contention about which you have apparently remained indignant and embittered for several years, before finally admitting what everyone else was saying from the start: the problem exists, but isn't a big deal as long as it's acknowledged and eventually fixed.

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.

Great. Until you discovered the cause of the issue, you could have written - three or four years ago - 'I will have a look at the music gap issue - thanks for pointing it out'. But instead it turned into a tremendous psycho-drama spanning years.

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

Where to start with this? The accounts mentioned have 'been gone', but what about the accounts we didn't mention yet? I know of at least one which is still active as I write this, as do you (since you haven't deactivated it yet). And what does 'are offline' mean? I assume it doesn't mean 'permanently deleted', especially since you add that they are 'currently not a problem', implying that they may soon be a problem again, once you reactivate them within the thirty day account deletion grace period. Temporary deactivation of sock-puppet accounts is not the most important consideration by any means. On the contrary, it's an attempt to divert attention from the most important issue, which is that you're still incapable of unambiguously owning up to creating and maintaining those accounts, and still incapable of getting rid of them, once and for all.

You've acknowledged and taken ownership of the 'sound gap' issue, so keep going in that same positive vein and take ownership of the other issues (Facebook, emails, etc). I'm pretty sure you'd eventually be glad you did.

Ostatnio edytowany przez flashjazzcat (2023-02-08 19:34:38)

25

Odp: PeteyM5s and Video 61s relationship with Atari Community

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.

Ostatnio edytowany przez PeteyM5 (2023-02-08 22:21:05)