Amiga Kickstarts distributed without a care

windale

Hi, I just wanted to make it known what a [removed] this guy is, [removed] alias Horace&theSpider. He has a download link for everyone for a WHDLoad loader program that he uses on Retropie. Inside it contains all the kickstarts. I gave him a heads up about it and he deleted my post and locked the thread like a child ! 2 hours later he came back and said
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"The files that have so offended your hypocracy @windale have been removed.

Perhaps you should consider why this petty behaviour is so important to you and why you feel the need to make things more difficult for hundreds of other users.

This requested change will now go to the bottom of the priority list."

What do you guys think about this ? People pay hard earned money for the Amiga Forever package to get these files legally.

herb_fargus

@windale said in Amiga Kickstarts distributed without a care:

why you feel the need to make things more difficult for hundreds of other users.

They should consider that about the hundreds of thousands of people that use the retropie project, because every time someone does something to associate our project with piracy it's that much closer to being shut down. I'm honestly surprised we have lasted as long as we have.

windale

@herb_fargus My thoughts exactly. That's why I mentioned it to him and he absolutely flipped out! He's removed the files now as you can read from his childish sarcastic answer (it got worse). The thing is he has a Facebook group (which contains the RetroPie name) where everything was shared to 100's (maybe 1000's) of people . Overall, the thing that pissed me off was that he didn't care and just deleted my posts and locked the thread.

mediamogul

@windale

I saw at another forum you posted on that the whole thing was met with general apathy all around. It seems that if something like this doesn't affect them directly, most people just don't care. Mark my words, these same people will come out of the woodwork with a million passionate opinions on how to fight if the project were ever threatened with extinction and they realize they might have their toys stamped on.

BuZz

I glanced over this post the other day, but now have read it properly, and need to make this clear - Whether or not you (or I) condone the actions of someone, that language and sort of personal attack is not acceptable here. You should know better.

Do it again and you will face a permanent ban.

HoraceAndSpider

Actually there was no response of apathy from myself.

The files were included as a genuine error (being in devs/kickstarts) and were not even correctly located for use as the main bios files for Amiberry.

The files were removed at windale's request , however, the reason for my dislike and removal of his comments from GitHub were a result of him posting there about the WHDbooter , on a page for another area of my the project (the config maker), and continuing to post on the matter despite me making this point to him.

As is clear from the language used above , the intent was purely to annoy, and given that he previously has caused issues on the Facebook (taking , rather badly , responses to requests which there was not capacity to resolve in the time he wanted), and had falsely claimed he did not use Facebook (accounts across several sites are not that hard to follow) I stand by my response to him,

Whilst I too do not condone piracy, my personal opinion on the matter of older bios files may differ to some... ( considering I still own a considerable amount of Amiga hardware with this rom data) nonetheless, I still removed files and it is irrelevant to the main RetroPie project here , and I would always respect the wishes of this forum... i would note this is why I have never posted regarding my project/Private Facebook group on this site, since reference may be made to using easy to obtain (google) files which anyone can download.

I hope this explains my position on this matter, and thank you to Buzz for removing personal details.