Re: Give Noisetracker credit to the FTA (DAMN STRAIGHT!)

[irsman@force-ten.iag.net (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <560olr$883@news.wco.com>,
Charles T. Turley <cturley@wco.com> wrote:

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's the month of November.  Time to cook the turkey!

>For the record David 'Captain Harlock' Scott, get a CLUE and get the 
>facts correct PLEASE - Noise Tracker v1.0 was done by the FTA and it was 
>also declared by none other than Joe Kohn to have been a program placed 
>into public domain from the FTA, v1.1 was from Ian Schmidt (Ian obtained 
>the src. codes - indirectly via me - BTW), v1.3 thru v2.0 were from 
>1WSW, they were legal updates, also sanctioned by, with the knowledge, 
>help and the blessings of the original author - Olivier Goguel and were 
>not rip offs or sector edits in any respect what-so-ever. They were 
>compiled by our 1WSW programmer Dave Swanson, with my instructions and 
>suggestions for all enhancements and updates.

What about that time on the phone when you came straight out and said v1.2 was
a sector edit of 1.1? :)  Oh, wait, you didn't include 1.2 in the list of 
"legal updates", my bad.

For those who didn't know the whole story of 1.1, here's a recap:  I was given
the NTGS 1.0 source codes by my friend Kenrick Mock.  I made some changes to
include both better MOD importing (more MODs would import properly), and I
also changed the playback to use noise-suppression technology which turned out
to be quite similar to Tim Meekins' from soniqTracker.  These changes took me
around a month.  Imagine my shock after I'd released the update to get a rabid
series of phone calls from the Rev. Dr. Charles T. "Dr. Tom" Turley claiming
that he owned the program and he was going to "get me" if I didn't give him
the new source code ("src. codes" in 1WSW-speak).  I, having better things to
do with my time, gave him the source.  He promptly released v1.2, which was
simply a sector edit to replace my credit with credit for him (remember, as
he has stated himself, Rev. Dr. Charles T. "Dr. Tom" Turley is not a 
programmer).  


>The President of the FTA - Olivier Goguel, cofounded 1WSW with me, in 
>1993 for the express purpose of my coordinating the program updates with 
>the FTA releases - Olivier furnished me with the Noise Tracker v1.0 src. 
>codes first. I furnished the v1.0 src. codes to others second. These are 
>facts that nobody can deny or prove otherwise. I have ample letters and 
>documentations from the author of Noise Tracker (Olivier Goguel), to 
>prove all of this. This is common knowledge that many others are also 
>aware of.

Wanna know the real truth about Olivier Goguel and 1WSW?  This is a real 
shocker, and it's never before been released in public.  Kent Keltner ran
into Mr. Goguel at the 1995 Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas,
and even got "The Gog"'s business card (and yes, I got to touch it ;)  Anyhow,
the deal is, Goguel just strung Turley along because like many of us, he was
sick of hearing from him.  Goguel went so far as to have his phone number 
changed so he could avoid the Rev. Dr. Charles T. "Dr. Tom" Turley.  Olivier
(that's pronounced "Oh-live-eee-eh", not "Oliver", as the RDCT"DT"T likes to
call him) isn't stupid, folks.  Think about it.

>justified. To make it very clear to everybody - just because something 
>resides inside of the Ground apple 2 ftp sites 1WSW folder doesn't imply 
>that it's from 1WSW or that I uploaded or requested that it be placed 
>inside of the 1WSW folder. 

I suppose this is your excuse for the time you placed sloppy disassemblies of
several of my programs on Ground with documentation written in your all too
easily identifiable style claiming they were the "src. codes".  Are these the
actions of someone who REALLY wishes to promote IIgs software development?  
Harassing the developers isn't the way to do it, Mr. Rev. Dr. Charles T. 
"Dr. Tom" Turley sir.

Here's exactly how fed up I am with the Rev. Dr. Charles T. "Dr. Tom" Turley
I am:  I have essentially completed versions of many programs, including
AudioZap 2.0, MODZap 1.0, MegaTracker 1.0, and others on my IIgs.  I'm just
going to sit on them until such time as the Rev. Dr. Charles T. "Dr. Tom"
Turley (no, that's not a macro, folks ;) announces that a) he's going to
stop being surprised when he posts lies and other bullshit and Nathan and
others correct him about it.  b) stops harassing developers (this includes
phone calls; my email is already filtered).  c) puts out some useful programs.
d) apologizes for his past sector edits of things like SoundStudio that
appeared on his early VAMPS disks.

BTW, there's a rumor going around that the release version of NTGS 2.0 was
sector-edited, and this is why nobody but (wait for it) The Rev. Dr. Charles
T. "Dr. Tom" Turley can save MODs.  No proof yet, but it's on my good friend
Dave Swanson's harddisk right across the street.  Stay tuned =-)

Oh, and I am fully aware that someone or someone(s) have leaked development
versions of all this stuff to Turley.  I don't care.

Ian Schmidt / Author: "SoundSmith to S3M" for Linux and Win32 platforms and
"MegaTracker Player" for Linux and FreeBSD, coming soon.

-- 
 Ian Schmidt / Digital Man, Analog Kid, and former Snow Dog
"But do you really wanna see naked shots of the girls of Texas A&M, and do you
 wanna wait 25 minutes while the bloody thing downloads into your computer?"
                                           - Geddy Lee, 7/31/96