Concerning HeadHunterGS v.0.50 and the HHGS.Theme.SL archives

["Charles T. 'Dr. Tom' Turley" <cturley@grin.net>]

As a result of the following enlightening and informative research post included
and referenced in its full content from Mitch Spector concerning: "HHGS.Theme.SL"
the entire HeadHunterGS development project has been canceled and HeadHunterGS
v0.50 (an unauthorized spoof) has been deleted from any public access and future
public distribution along with the HHGS.Theme.SL. If the information posted by
Mitch Spector (who never even showed the courtesy of contacting me about the
matters before making his post) concerning the claimed origin of the uploaded
HHGS.Theme.SL archive contents, (which was certainly new news to me) proves to 
be correct, then I'm very sorry for having thought them to be original, as claimed 
when sent to me for such use, public release and distribution by Cliff Haight. 
I've sent an email to Cliff this morning - asking for his explaination about all 
this.

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"Subject:      Re: ANN: HeadHunterGS v0.50 released
From:         spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
Date:         1998/01/05
Message-ID:   <5JAN199822252012@vax2.concordia.ca>
Newsgroups:   comp.sys.apple2
In article cturley@grin.net writes...

[snip]

>HeadHunterGS Theme and SynthLab Music
>Arrangements: Cliff Haight

Hmmm. "HHGS.Theme.SL" is actually an unmodified MIDI composition
from Reggie Granados (iccthedral1@prodigy.com) and the instrument 
bank, "MyTune.BNK" and its waveform file, is actually an unmodified 
copy of "Europe.BNK" from Ian Schmidt (irsman@iag.net).

Mitchell Spector"

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The 'HHGS.Theme.SL' archived contents were sent to me by email from Cliff Haight
(blackj@oregoncoast.com). as an external attachement ShrinkIt archive file
(MYTUNE1.SHK) on 12/17/97. I unshrunk it and listened to it. I'd never heard it
before, I liked the music and the arrangement, promptly called Cliff by phone to
discuss it with him. He told me it was his own original tune that he composed
note by note, without using any external MIDI, using SynthLab on his IIgs,
completely from the programs keyboard input options. He also told me he created
both; (by his tweaking and modifications of the instruments and wavebank from
an unnamed SynthLAB .bnk and .wav file). He gave me his consent to change the
internal text of the SynthLAB sequence file as I elected and to use it as the
theme of HeadHunterGS, which I did, then made the archive and uploaded it to
Ground with a discriptive text file concerning the upload. I did this in good
faith, trusting it to be an original composition and music arrangment by Cliff
Haight, exactly as he stated to me that it was.

Here's the full story about the archive 'HeadHunter.shk'. After asking of it's
original upload origin, Steve Nelson of Ground informed me that It was uploaded
to Ground on 1/4/98 from an unknown individual without my knowledge,consent or
involvement, from a machine named 'Mars' located in Southern California. When I
first saw the archive on Ground (on Monday morning), I promptly downloaded it to
investigate exactly what it was all about. It was an unauthorized spoof of
HeadHunterGS, labeled as version 0.50 and made as a stack game with HyperCard
IIgs (with the subtitle:The Quest Against Flamers. I had no knowledge of its
creation or even of its existing - before I saw the archive on Ground and
downloaded it to investigate its contents. It listed the programmer as Chuck Y.
Tse and also listed me as: Coordinator of Development: Charles Turley.

I was not the Coordinator of Development for the stack in any manner! The theme
music was included within this stack without either mine or Cliff Haights
knowledge or consent. IMHO, Chuck Y. Tse is a bogus name used. The name 'Chuck Y.
Tse' is more or less ment as a pun against me as in; 'for Chucky to see' or
'Chucky tease' - how cute, this whole thing is - I thought, at that point! 

So, after playing the game stack to it's 15th level when it crashed, I decided to
play along with this unauthorized HeadHunterGS spoof release and made the
announcement of its existence with the post. I even made two web site homepages
for it and uploaded it to my ftp site, allowing it to be available for public
download, to see what the results might be. I did this mainly to provoke the
author of the HyperCard IIgs game stack into revealing his true identity or
contacting me about the matter of using my name in the stack without my
authorization, consent or knowledge.
 
After having read the post from Mitch concerning the alledged use of others
music arrangements, instrument and wavebanks and my own name being in the stack
listed as: Coordinator of Development, without my authorization, consent or
knowledge, I requested and had it removed from any public access and future
distribution. So, there you have the entire story concerning all this - as
best I'm able to relate it. I regret any problems cause by all of this!

Cheers,
Tom

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