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)

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:

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:

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:

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)

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

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.

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)

Czy ktoś może posprzątać zamykając ten wątek?

...jak baby ze wsi normalnie.

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.

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:

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.

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." 

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

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)

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)

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.

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.

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)