Re: Give Noisetracker credit to the FTA

["Charles T. Turley" <cturley@wco.com>]

Nathan as you so often say, get a CLUE, HINT, etc...

Get you facts straight and accurate Nathan - PLEASE. Open up your eyes, 
and READ THIS DUDE! The author of Noise Tracker and the President of the 
FTA - Olivier Goguel cofounded 1WSW with me in 1993, he sent me the src. 
codes to Noise Tracker v1.0 FIRST, transfered the rights of all the FTA 
releases to 1WSW and me in 1993. I have ample documentation with 
original hand written letters from Olivier Goguel to prove this.

I digitized them all and had them on my 1WSW web site for a long time 
last year. Many people have seen the actual letters, have contacted 
Olivier Goguel and varified what I'm saying also. 

Sure FTA (Olivier Goguel) did write Noise Tracker and v1.0 was the last 
FTA release of the program (actually it was noted as v.60) if you'll 
check the internal version number - you'll not that. However, it was 
really just an oversight on Olivier's part not removing that notation 
from the past versions, when he compiled v1.0.

Your post proves you don't know -JACK- about the real story of the 
updates and rewrites of Noise Tracker or what the 1WSW team did with it.
Your problem is simple. You've been listening to all the gossip, chatter 
and lies on IRC for so long that you actually beleive them as TURTH and 
FACT, when they are nothing more than the ignorant rants, hearsay and 
misinformation of a bunch of ego freaks and power hungry wanna-be 
know-it-all's!

You want me to write a FAQ for Noise Tracker for you to put on your web 
site? I'd be happy to. READ ON - Mr. Nathan 'misinformation' Mates, for 
just a brief review on the programs history! 

Kenrick Moch was given the src. codes by me in 1993, to find somebody to 
do an update. (I wrote to Ian Schmidt long before that - to ask him if 
he might be interested in doing such an update). Ian never even bothered 
to reply to my request. He obtained the Noise Tracker v1.0 src. codes 
via Ken's BBS, did a hasty and rather sloppy 24 hour hacked - rewrite of 
Noise Tracker to v1.1, without my knowledge or premission, released it 
eveywhere and showed his true nature by having done so.

The release of Noise Tracker v1.1 was a disaster for everybody, an 
embarrasment to Ian, etc. and so on. Ian's the person that removed all 
the easter eggs and such, not me and not the 1WSW group members. Ian 
also screwed the program up with sample saves that didn't even work and 
in general made some real goofs with the update code additions. I even 
got a copy of the Noise Tracker v1.1 update src. codes form Ian Schmidt, 
via Ken Moch - to attempt to get Dave Swanson to correct the errors from 
v1.1 ( BTW - Dave Swanson is our 1WSW team member and rewrite author 
with me, of Noise Tracker v1.3 up to and including the GS/OS complete 
rewrite version 2.0). They were all done with Merlin, no sector editing 
was done by me or anybody else on any of them. They all have 
improvements and valid, useful additional enhancements added to them, 
which was detailed in thir documentation.

I stil have those v1.1 src. code changes (a rather small set of merlin 
src.files also).

Those are just some of the many FACTS on Noise Tracker and all updates 
to it from 1WSW. If you don't beleive it, call, email or -WHATEVER- Ian 
Schmidt and ask him about it all. You want more PROOF - I've got it and 
will be glad to furnish it to you or anybody else with the need to see 
it.

Nathan, you and so many others have been living and feeding on so much 
bunk-misinformation, gossip and so on for so long now, you really thing 
it's TRUE!  Get you facts correct, before you start spewing your bunk on 
Noise Tracker and its history on this new group to all of its readers - 
PLEASE!  And especially anything relating to MY having sector editing it 
in any manner what-so-ever! That's simply not true. I never sector 
edited the Noise Tracker program (any version of it) - PERIOD! 

I still have all the src. codes from Dave Swanson for Noise Tracker 
updates - versions; 1.3, 1.4 and 2.0 - including all betas of same.  
Should you or anybody else need to see them - please let me know and 
I'll be happy to furnishyou with copies of such.
 
Download NoiseTracker GS v2.0 and all of the beta versions of it, which 
I released to public domain in 1994 - with the src. codes for all of 
them. Look at it closely. It's not a sector edited version of anything.   
It's exactly what I outlined it to be in previous posts to csa2 before, 
on many occasions. It's an expressive sequencer, a 4 track Modfile 
Editor, (the only true Modfile Editor for the Apple IIGS that can create 
Modfiles from scratch and save them as Modfiles in the Protracker 
format, with all the special effects of a Modfile). It's also a music 
format converter for 4 track Modfiles, NoiseTracker modules, Soundsmith 
sequences and wave files, NoiseTracker sequences and wave files - that 
can save its music sequences and samples (individual) as Protracker 
Modfiles, NoiseTracker modules; type 1 - (the original format of NT 
modules) or type 2 (which can retain and include 89% of all Protracker 
Modfile special effects).

It can import, convert and export all of the above mentioned - plus 
transpose and/or substitute any and all samples in the wave files and 
banks in either raw or standard sample format.

Would somebody kindly explain to me and everybody else reading this 
reply, how can any program be sector edited to turn it into a GS/OS 
desktop application from a P8 program? 

So, if you or anybody else care to know more about any version of Noise 
Tracker IIGS (any versions) - I've got all the FACTS to present, in 
detail. 

But, you won't ask for any more on this - because you can't handle the 
truth or the facts that would prove you are incorrect!

Cheers,
Tom