No more requests please... my ears are deaf.

I've loaded everything I've completed into the news page and it will churn them out for a while, but when they stop - thats it.

To take the time and work with someone to release an unreleased game (and TOS fix it) and get no feedback at all is one thing.... but when some ignorant bastard then takes that version and puts it on their website with absolutely no mention of where it came from... thats the straw that breaks the camel's back.

So, go ahead.. feel free to praise him for his amazing work. I'm sure you all will anyway.

And before some smart-arse-does-nothing-for-the-community type (box scanning does not provide something for the community) chimes in with "isn't that what you did with XJ220?" you could tell where it originated from our write up - the fact that they proclaim themselves the ultimate ST site, but their database is pathetically small for the time they have spent on it (and also inaccurate) doesn't seem to bother their tiny little minds. Also our XJ was done from the "originals" and not from someone else's version who we then didnt credit. The title should have been left in the realm of screenshots. Oberje was doing a great job, yes, but its so unfinished that it should have stayed that way. How much pressure was he put under to get it for them?

Our webhosts (streamline.net - I would utterly recommend everyone to never deal with them) have given us nothing but greif over the "archives" despite telling us we can host them there... and despite us having a business class "unlimited" account - this really kills motivation as we've had over 130gb of data that we uploaded removed.

All in all, it's becoming too much of a "chore" and not enough "fun".

So, I hope you've enjoyed what I've patched up so far (I certainly hope you agree that I mainly did the good games first) and I hope you enjoy the final few releases for now.

I'll "maintain" ULS if anyone finds any bugs.

Sayonara.

CJ.

Hello CJ,

You *are* appreciated, just that people are shite at communicating the fact. It's always been a problem and the effort to tangible appreciation ratio's have always been piss-poor. This goes right back to when people were expecting to make a living from shareware and were underwhelmed by the response.

Speaking as a long-term member of the scene (Diskmag editor, main contributor and lame fake demo maker) I'm having a similar problem of motivation much of the time myself. You may be aware of the diskzine called "Alive", and you may be aware that the last issue was a long time ago. Well I've got a load of stuff written and waiting for the next issue, which should have been released at Evoke *last* year! It doesn't help that the main editor seems to have gone ÁWOL without a word of warning or explanation. Still, I'll see if he turns up at Outline, and if not, start to make contingency plans  

In fact, there seems to be a general problem even with people replying to simple emails, and this isn't just an Atariscene thing. I sent off three to different people on different subjects but no replies within the last 7 days. Maybe if it's not on Facebook or Tw(a)tter, it doesn't exist, I dunno. There are no simple answers.

I think a break might be a good idea, but don't give up. If you do, then *censored* has won!

And I don't think you want that!  

Take care,

Chris.

It's the little motivational things that really help...

This, taken from someone's site.

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Unpublished game by Jamie Woodhouse. Still better than ST version of Uridium !

Some Atari 'magician' guy complained about not crediting him and his work in resurrecting this game. More here.

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clicking "here" results in:

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So, what CJ did to make this game (Sideways prototype) more usable ? He added ULS (so called Universal Loading System) to ensure work from hard disks, higher TOS versions, on Falcon. The result: need for 1MB RAM. while game can run fine with 512KB. But enough of technical details.
CJ wants credits, so here are they: I credit CJ and D-Bug for underestimating and humiliating other's work, programs, HW solutions, articles, posts in forum etc. They did it many times. Examples: writing nonsenses and frightening comments (about destroying whole partitions etc.) about program in which people invested hunderts and hunderts hours of hard work, testings, communication with people, correcting some bugs, improving program by suggestions etc... Other example: CJ wrote 'priceless stupidity' about new solution for gaming from hard disks on Ataris with little RAM. I could here add at least 2 dozens of other examples, but it is enough. Visit their forum to read more idiotism and spitting.
On the other side, all what they do is : 'magic', 'state of art' and similar. But what they really did and do ? Only game adaptations and some demos (intros). So called ULS is not universal, and will never be. Something like that is simple not possible in real World. Name is just misleading, and Atari people may have irreal expectations from. But we see results already. So, I credit CJ, D-Bug for beeing self-conceited, not listening to other's opinion ones.
Then, CJ complains about lack of (positive) feedback, not crediting him and crew... So, I took chance, and credited him. This is best credit what I can do. Thanx for your time, dear reader. End of ranting PP

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I'm not even going to bother wasting time to reply to that.

I love Atari - I always have, and I always will. I'll almost certainly keep pottering around with them for years to come, but the community is rotting away beneath our feet.. less and less is getting put back in....  and, frankly, I'm happy to not release anything again if this is the level of reception it gets.

So head on over to Hungary and leave all your messages of goodwill and support there.

Before you become too excited, 7days only :-\

http://ppera.07x.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4

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robert2098 wrote on 25.04.09 at 07:40:10:

Fully agree here!
Sad to see you lost motivation, but i really can understand it if you need a break after these tons of patches and new ULS in this short time.

I really appreciate your work and it would be a sad day for the remaining Atari Community if you stop patching or having fun with Atari stuff.
I want to thank you guys especially for the patch of Wings Of Death and the choosable Amiga Soundtrack on Falcon. That really blew me away!

Take your time and i really hope that you someday can just laugh about ppl like PPerror instead of getting angry at him!

Have fun whatever you do and i wish you all the best for the future!
I am sure there will always be people that care and appreciate what you do!

Saviour

See CJ, people do like you! 

ROFL

http://*censored*.07x.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=6

and

http://*censored*.07x.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&p=7#p7

He's had "a few ideas" - all of which are in ULS.

• memory snapshots
• switching TOS in and out
• save/restore timers/MFP

Except he's going to make people solder things to their computers.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Way to go!!! Can't wait to see how much of ULS he steals and claims is his. Ironic as he called it useless.

See, you really don't need us to do anything - because along will come "good old *censored*" with his NotULS(tm) + some soldering and make everything work for you.

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;
;; Memory block move
;;
;; a0-source
;; a1-destination
;; d7-bytes to move
;;

block_move
	divu #48,d7
	swap.w d7
	move.w d7,-(a7)
	swap.w d7
	subq.w #1,d7			; itterations of 48 bytes
.mvloop	movem.l (a0)+,d0-6/a2-6
	movem.l d0-6/a2-6,(a1)
	lea 48(a1),a1
	dbra d7,.mvloop
	move.w (a7)+,d7			; overflow remainder
	beq.s .mdone
	subq.w #1,d7
.myloop	move.b (a0)+,(a1)+
	dbra d7,.myloop
.mdone	rts 

Is what his soldering "work" essentially does. Your call....

I know watching him develop this is going to cause laughter and fun for months to come.

Everything is incompatible with a *censored* mod But it's not his fault, it's yours. You soldered the wrong TOS into the wrong slot. You fool. It works for him!

CJ - sorry I've not been here for a while - just catching up with all these posts...  Anyway, in my opinion a break is looooong overdue - enjoy the hiatus mate, we'll be here waiting for your patches when you return

IK+ was fixed for all TOS over 2 years ago... it's got sync-critical code in it though, so it won't run on the Falcon properly.

We've not released it yet.

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*Pats CJ on back