Give Noisetracker credit to the FTA

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <19961107201900.PAA08160@ladder01.news.aol.com>,
 <RUBYWAND@aol.com> wrote:
>     One of the wares 'discovered' is named "Noise Tracker". I'd heard the
>name before, but, never seen the program. "_Noise_ Tracker" is not a title
>one automatically associates with music composition. Also, it's a ProDOS 8
>program; so, it almost got passed over.

   Which rock have you been living under? Noisetracker was one of the
last programs done by the FTA, and has been available at the legit
Apple II FTP sites for well over 4 years.

   The first version was done entirely by the FTA.

>     NT started up with an attractive super-res intro screen showing
>(surprise!)  a 1 World Software Wizards logo; 

   You must have a later version. Ian Schmidt can detail exactly which
features, easter eggs, and the like were removed from the original
version, and which crashing bugs were introduced.

   Thanks to the sector editing work of Turley and company, all of the
original credits must have gone bye-bye as Turley has tried to make his
group look like they're capable of producing such a work.

>but, a bigger surprise was
>the ultra-slick Control Panel screen. This is a _very_ nice piece of work;

   Amigaesque. And FTA, not 1WSW. 

   CREDIT SHOULD GO TO THE ORIGINAL PROGRAMMERS, NOT THE SECTOR EDITOR.
Why do you think a lot of programmers rather dislike Turley for ripping
off others programs and attempting to pass them off as his own?

   For the record: I do have NTGS 1.0 on my HD. Original and best, accept
no substitutes, clones, ripoffs, or imitations. Drop by a real Apple II
ftp site to see exactly how much work was done by the FTA, and how little
has changed since then.

Nathan Mates
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