Leaderboard

Quite happy to hand over the rather large archive of screencaps and emails from the last decade regarding how Kieren has been openly attacking myself and others, and encouraging others to also do the same, including many, many from Jaguar Sector III - including ones he left up just long enough for people to read before deleting, to any police force that requests them. Especially the ones where he claims I'm homophobic and causing gay people to leave the scene. People have been capturing from JS3 since the day it opened to collect this stuff because we knew he wouldn't stop hurling abuse at people. We've watched all his rants and attacks, all his purges of spies. All his posts and deletions. All of it. What I've posted here is the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Kieren, don't embarass yourself further. Admit your part in this, seek help, and then just LEAVE the retro scene and don't come back, ever. Let everyone heal without you. I don't think I can ever bring myself to forgive you, but right now I'd be more than happy to just forget you.

Kieren, this is an open letter to you, about the very deep and real trouble you are going to have with the police and legal authorities. A couple of years ago on Facebook, I saw that a comedian had spent the previous evening writing sick and racist jokes. He'd been mocking Muslims, he even took the mick out of the Hillsborough dead and even the people killed in the Manchester Arena terrorist bombing. A huge amount of comments from others on the circuit were, obviously, very condemning of him. Personal friends of mine from the circuit, warning him to stop this tirade of abuse. Some cancelling their gigs with him. I took screenshots of this bizarre outpouring of hate, and put it on my blog, just in case the vile 'comedian' turned his post private or deleted it. It'd serve as a warning to anyone who thought of booking him. None of the screenshots were faked, I just wrote a small paragraph naming him and warning readers that the content will of course be offensive. Last year, that 'comedian' contacted me with a legal threat, telling me to take down the screenshots. He was in the middle of studying for a law degree, so he could become a lawyer (this bit is actually true, as strange as it sounds, I've had friends confirm this, to my amazement). He said he'd use his legal prowess to sue me for having made such screenshots, as I was damaging his career. I didn't respond to him. I actually relished the idea of him trying to find anyone to take such a case on. After all, any sane person, could see that the only person who damaged his career, was himself. He wrote that disgusting content, I was merely quoting it. To this day, I have never heard anything back and the blog still exists online. His threat can be summarised as 'don't show everyone what an awful person I am'. And this is what you're trying to do with this forum, isn't it? Did you really report this thread to your local police force? I know narcissism is your defining streak, and your arrogance and vanity is off the scale, but are you seriously bringing YOUR ABUSE to the ATTENTION OF YOUR LOCAL POLICE? And your sole argument is that you're being criticised here? Do you actually think they're gonna side with you? To bring up a more famous case, let's go back to 1997. In the Bristol branch of PC World, like any other day, a technician is given a customer's PC to repair. Realising who the customer was - a musician who was a bit of a joke of a celebrity but had genuine fame in the 1970s - the technician did something that he was not authorised to do. He broke PC World's own rules, to have a look at the guy's personal files. Did this technician commit a crime? It could be argued he did, but that's just nothing compared to what he found on the hard drive, and those with knowledge of this case already know who I am referring to. No, for the record, I am NOT comparing your misdeeds to that of an actual nonce. However, you have broken the law several times and it's detailed in this thread. The England and Wales law I'd say you have broken the most, is the Malicious Communications Act 1988 - specifically section 1 (1)a and b. Then there are the copyright issues. Now, yes, it was at least mitigating to have closed down your Laird's Lair YouTube account, your Laird's Lair FB page and your @RetroLaird Twitter account. However, right now, your Patreon page is still live and it's actively selling intellectual property you don't own, for your personal profit. One such posting has you pay-gating a mass of content belonging to a major magazine/radio giant, Bauer Media. I have warned you about this in the past, you blocked me. I know why you're going to fail because I've had it in the past from a forum troll. About ten years ago, for the first time in my life, I had police on my doorstep, telling me that I've been abusive online to an autistic man via a forum I ran. The extent of this guy's complaint was that he was being ridiculed on my forum by users - which was true. I was still picking my jaw off the floor because I was astonished he would get the police involved. But there was something odd about him. He had turned up to a real life 'meet forum members' meeting a few months earlier and acted rather strangely, shouting at the top of the voice on subjects we agreed on, as if we were disagreeing with him. We eventually blocked him, he was a massive nuisance on the forum. I later found out he had some learning difficulties and was also very far on the autism spectrum. I can kind of empathise as I'm also autistic. However, whatever condition he had, did not negate the fact that he had spent a week after his blocking, registering multiple accounts to write that "PETER IS A NAZI"; "PETER IS A CHILD MOLESTER" and other slurs. He also mocked up images of him shooting guns at photos of forum members. The abuse was relentless, but thankfully, being a web developer at the time, I rewrote the forum software to notify me of his specific IP address and that was pretty effective at keeping him quiet. I was still astonished that such a guy would get the police involved and here they were in my house. Still, it gave me my chance to show them what he'd been up to. To say they were surprised was an understatement. Were it not for his severe neurological condition, he would have been charged and facing court. As it was, he had to give an undertaking to never visit my sites and never contact me again. I learnt a lot about how the police deal with online abuse that day. I've learnt quite a bit more from a friend who has worked with a charity that tracks down online abusers. Shall I give an outline of how - if that screenshot of your complaint really is true - your police complaints are going to go down? It's already been said that your forum rules are not equivalent to the laws of England and Wales, nor do they override them. Yes, people are taking screenshots of your abusive language, and you could try your hardest to say it's some kind of GDPR or privacy violation, but here's how this goes... The police officers you speak to, they won't care for the nuances of this particular fandom. Chances are, they're pretty young and their concept of retrogaming is playing a four-years-out-of-date copy of FIFA. They may be vaguely aware of Sonic and Mario. Ultimately, they're not here for a discussion on retrogaming itself, their job is to see if crimes have been committed. They have to see both sides of the story. And I really really am playing Devil's Advocate for you here, Kieren. I can't imagine myself in your situation, because, although I'm no angel, I've never been that stupid or egotistical enough to find myself in a situation like yours. A situation where Chris Wilkins, Craig Turner and others are openly discussing the possibility of suing you. Your representation to the police is that we're all a nasty bunch of bullies, intent on ruining your career, making you jobless. If it hasn't happened already, you'll be asked to make a statement on that. And for the identities of people who you believe to be committing these crimes against you. That's all the police care about - WHO HAS COMMITTED A CRIME HERE? Not the 'he said/she said' war of words. If/when the police talk to these people, they put their side of the story to you. And we both know that's going to include a lot of screenshots of your abuse. And despite your protestations, that is still admissible in their statements. To moan about people taking screenshots of your abuse, is like a car thief trying to claim copyright of his face when the car owner sends the dashcam footage to the police. YOU. ARE. SCREWED. And here's what you may probably do. "I didn't do that, that's someone else" is what I think you may say. That you're not @Arsebiscuits10, @dave_jatt, @GrandadSpectrum, etc on Twitter. And to be fair, I don't think ALL of those suspiciously pro-Paul-Andrews are you. I think a LOT of them are you, but I do think some of the others are probably someone else in your hometown. But by this point, the game is up already. The police will challenge you, on if you'd like to go further with your complaint, or abandon it all together. Choose the latter and it's clear to them you're a lying fantasist. And that's actually the least worst option at this point. Choose to go further, and I am 99% certain you will be interviewed under threat of caution. The interview will be recorded. You will be asked if you are the author of the abuse coming from various anonymous accounts. Stuff like this sent to Octavius last year, for example... And yeah, you've probably lined up excuses. The old 'I was hacked' line has been tried by Ian Botham and Rebekah Vardy, but it's never convinced anyone. You could still pretend it's just anonymous outsiders, nothing to do with you, you don't know who you are. As you'll be on the record, you'll be warned that the police will quickly obtain powers to forensically investigate every computing device in your house. That's everything, seized, digitally copied to a police-owned device. Good luck explaining to the rest of your family what's going on there. This happens if ANY of the counter-complaints suggest you are behind the abuse. There's a LOT linking those very pro-Paul-Andrews messages to yourself and remember it's 'reasonable suspicion' from the police. Even if nothing is found on your computers, tablets, smartphones, your ISP(s) can still be brought into this. And this goes beyond digital. Having read Octavius's statement yesterday, with details of how you spread malicious gossip which resulted in lost professional work for people, you're already way deep in the brown stuff. Am I still playing Devil's Advocate? I really don't want to, but if, and a really really really HUGE IF, in that mad parallel universe where I'm just as much of a narcissistic bullying digital jackdaw like you, right now I would be legally changing my name by deed poll. I'd be drastically altering my appearance. I'd never show up at a retrogaming event again. I'd never write a thing again on retrogaming. I sure as hell would not be bringing my abuse to the attention of my local police force. Why do you still bother?

Heads-up that the new v0.7 release of 7800basic has been made public, and it's now being distributed at github under the GPLv2 license. See the first post for details. This release brings in the ability to swap out some alternate controllers - for now it's just driving controllers and keypads, in addition to the usual joysticks, but I have plans for other others. I haven't picked up these controllers yet, so I've presently only tested against emulation. If anybody can test them (there are sample programs) then please do! If you've implemented other controllers in your basic code already, the new code should play nice; if you don't try to change controllers with the new "changecontrol" command, 7800basic will default to the same 2-button joystick code used by previous versions. Additionally, banner widths can be as wide as you like now; no need to break them into 32-byte wide chunks.

I have very good reason to believe that you were warned about Kieren well in advance of publication of this book, and that the reply that came back from your publishing house was "he hasn't done anything to us, so piss off". It is precisely this attitude that has allowed Kieren to continue to cause trouble for the past fifteen years, that, and the bizarre lack of certain people to name him for his misdeeds when they are so overwhelmingly documented and incontrovertibly true; as if what's being reported is merely conjecture that can and should be given the benefit of the doubt. Kieren isn't just some random guy on the internet causing internet drama, he is a person who has repeatedly demonstrated not only a willingness to lie about himself and his own accomplishments, but also to lie about other people in order to damage their reputations, set people against each other, and even worse. He is what most people, looking only at his pattern of behavior, would politely call a psychopath. In his mind, he is never at fault, ever; every bad thing that has ever come his way is always and can only be the result of external factors beyond his control. As bad as that is, he is also known for taking other people's work and portraying it as his own; he will also make up whatever he thinks will sound plausible to the gullible. He portrays himself as an expert on all things retro, even though it's easy to see through this puffed up portrait he has made of himself. It baffles me how anyone could take such lazy, dishonest work seriously, especially when a little digging will yield the truth about him and his shoddy writing. Again, he has been doing this for fifteen years. And so when I hear of his involvement with a book like yours, I have no choice but to take a principled stand against it as having him profit from it in any way is an affront to everyone who has integrity and is doing their best to put out good, honest work. Further, by embracing him and putting his input into your book, you have invariably lowered the quality of it as anything he writes cannot be trusted to be accurate, knowledgeable, or factual. This is not a matter of opinion, this is, again, a matter of incontrovertible fact. And, since you won't even tell us which parts he contributed to, we have to assume that all of it is tainted. And again, I have good reason to believe that you were warned about him well in advance of publication, meaning that you are not being forthcoming here Mr. Dyer. You say you want to "publicly state the facts regarding Kieren’s involvement and squash the speculation", but, given that you were warned about Kieren and decided to have him involved anyway, makes it seem more like you are trying desperately to minimize his involvement and deflect any blame from your company for the decision--which you made--to bring him on. And so, this is a definite, absolute no; I will never buy a copy of your new book as it lends credence to Mr. Hawken and gives him unearned prestige; not only that, I also refuse to enrich Mr. Hawken as a matter of principle, and anyone who enables him to be so enriched, such as people like yourself. Good day to you sir.

It's not unreasonable for JS3 to be referenced in this discussion, as Kieren did use it to launch many attacks against others (and AtariAge). ..Al

Hello folks, i'm the artist formerly known as Galahad of Fairlight :) I got involved in this situation because Mr.Hawken kept on trying to delete videos under fair use provisions, so I agreed to host the Lynx God video where he reviewed Kierens A-Z of Atari ST games Volume 3. I've been pretty successful at heading of copyright knobheads like Kieren, so I put in a disclaimer in the video to let him know that should he do it to me, i'd chase him until the video was back up and his channel got nuked. As it turned out, me hosting that video and the Wotsit video and this thread here kind of calamitously collided at the same time to bring some much needed sanity to Mr.Hawkens life in general. And for those wondering if he did contact the Police about me....... he actually did! :) Which was comically silly of him, and likely won't end well for him if I have my way, because i've escalated it up the chain of command at Bedfordshire Constabulary :) I wouldn't have been so bothered by it, but he decided to fashion a load of bollocks (quelle surprise?) with which to furnish his story to the PC, which I soon corrected him on. Basically, me telling Kieren what would happen to him if he didn't retract the copyright notice is according to Kieren "blackmail" and "harassment". Me pointing out him leaving himself open to being sued is apparently blackmail!!! A bit like a Police Officer stopping me and telling me "If you don't stop speeding, i'm going to giving you a ticket and forward your details to Court."..... "Are you blackmailing me officer?!?!?!?!?!?" It's that stupid. Now, I understand the law better than most (Yes, Georges statement about me is ironically true!), I fully understand that Kieren has a right to report me for harassment to the Police if he has "an honestly held belief", that i'm doing that. He also isn't in trouble with the law if his "honestly held belief" is found to be incorrect. It's all cool with me, I don't care, it's water off a ducks back, and the threat by the PC of me being served with a Harassment and Distress Order was falling on deaf ears, as there was no evidence to show i'd harassed anyone, which the PC accepted, hearing the other side of the story. Also, it was suggested that I was some kind of "ringleader" and could I call off the mob because they might get in trouble lol I politely told the PC that i'm no ringleader of anything and that if he had cause to censure anyone, he'd be doing that work himself, nowt to do with me Officer! I would have left it, but Kieren...... turns out he's less bright than a can of black paint in a room devoid of all light! He decided to post on Facebook that I'd harassed him and he'd be reporting me to the Police.... fine, crack on young lad...... but that he'd also had a £1000 fraud committed on one of his cards, lots of false direct debits setup in his name, and this all magically happened when I entered his life! Needless to say, i've escalated this beyond the initial dealing PC and we're at SGT level at the moment (who incidentally needs a prod to respond), because, well, I can easily and utterly destroy his "honestly held belief", i.e. prove he's not honest. So more on this later as it develops, the video will be back up very soon, I will get recourse through the Police, and it will be very interesting as to what occurs next, but i'm guessing Mr.Hawken won't like it very much. Hi Kieren, I gave you fair warning and you doubled down....... ;)

Not enough for a book, but I'm counting the days.

Managed to find a Sears Heavy Sixer for less than $40, never know what you'll find trawling around new listings on eBay!

Intellivision players always did well with the ladies compared to Atari dudes.

Thank you, appreciate the comment, but more than anything, appreciate that your opinion has changed. Welcome to the world of Jaguar Homebrew beyond the confines of JS3

Yep, that message re:Rebooteroids and the post being pulled from Facebook with a reference to “vile people” was from me. If required I have an archived copy I can retrieve. To me, there’s no doubt that such comments will have resulted in a loss of orders. KH opinions had an air of legitimacy, at least to me probably naively. Those not in the know I believe would take his comments at face value from a “journalist”. This definitely has resulted in lost orders for both Reboot and AtariAge.

Do bear in mind, that police officers HATE being drawn into social media spats. Over the past few years as social media has become so prolific in everyday life, police are called out regularly over petty arguments on Facebook. When they get a report that there's something kicking off on social media or forums, they take a dim view of it. (I had someone off the comedy circuit report me to the police because I expressed my sincere view on Twitter, that psychics are frauds, the police were not interested in the complaint.) Now, I know this is NOT a petty argument. Business relationships have been severely damaged (and are only just repairing) because of Kieren Hawken. At least two female gamers with social anxiety issues have been viciously targeted, too. What I'm trying to say is, if the police do contact anyone off this forum - and I know this is going to sound patronising but I speak from experience - just get straight to the point about Kieren's breaking of the law. Honestly, there's no need to bring in his factual inaccuracies on Atari hardware or the (admittedly hilarious) 'Steve Davis Snooker 128K' boasts. And to instigate copyright action would be a civil dispute, not for the officers on the beat, although it is still legitimate to bring in any evidence of Kieren ripping you off. Whatever you've got on Kieren, make it concise, keep it as factual as possible, don't go heavily into 'story mode'. Remember, the police will take action if you can demonstrate him causing anxiety and/or distress. Start with the worst of his attacks. Keep in mind that he will portray you lot as the big nasty bullies, the ones who have driven him to despair. You've got a limited amount of time to demonstrate to a complete stranger, who has no skin in the game on Atari (let alone retrogaming), that Kieren Hawken is an abusive liar. You can cite the troll accounts, he will of course deny being behind them. Once there's a big enough picture built of his motivation, his dishonesty and his trolling, there's a case for the troll accounts to be investigated. If you're not acquainted with the Malicious Communications Act 1988, get reading it. If it's true, tell the police you've been targeted by his troll accounts and it caused major concern to you. If enough people cite those troll accounts (especially the one that brought up the specific anti-depressant medication one gamer previously confided to Kieren that she took), there will be justification for every computing device in his household to be forensically examined. Thankfully, the police do take into account the overall perception of a person within their online community. This week has seen Kieren Hawken absolutely condemned from many different corners of retrogaming, from people who don't always see eye to eye. This forum thread has been a major catalyst (although, it was a bit waffly in the first few pages); George Cropper's Wotsit video was where the dam burst, and the absolute pinnacle in my eyes, is Chris Wilkins's Facebook post with 300+ comments that utterly annihilate the self-proclaimed Laird (a lot of eye-witness accounts of him being abusive at events). More credibility comes from Mr Biffo's Digitiser article on how he was duped by Kieren, and the recent Facebook post from Octav1us that outlines specific abuse from Kieren aimed at her. My life was turned almost upside-down two years ago when a real-life acquaintance - formerly a friend - on the comedy circuit heavily turned on me, all because I could not guarantee her a performance spot at one of my comedy nights. She went full-on troll mode against me, claiming I was trying to censor her, trying to lose her work, stalking her, etc, etc. All bollocks. And my inbox filled up with anecdotes from other comedians on how this woman had caused massive drama for other people, including the abuse of promoters, comedians and even audience members in the past. She was certainly not - how do I say this kindly? - thinking straight. A trawl through her past social media brought up specific posts where she literally wanted a physical fight against a female reviewer who gave her a bad write-up; vandalism of comedy night posters; lots of other threats to comedians. I screengrabbed it all, but never brought it to police attention, because she was clearly not mentally well and I genuinely had sympathy for her MH battles (still do). She was the one who went to the police against me, but it all backfired for her when the police saw my 41-page dossier of screengrabs, getting her a severe reprimand. It's not an episode I want to relive, but I learnt a lot from how the police view social media 'battles' from that incident and how to deal with someone in a scene dragging your name through the mud, in defiance of reality. Anyway, enough waffle from me. Here's hoping the healing goes as smoothly as possible.

Karma. Karma happened.

OK, sound demo done ... This is my rendition of the Area 1/Area 3 music from the NES shooter Zanac. It's been heavily redone in 8 channels. Most of the sounds are converted from my Yamaha DX-100 library but some had to be heavily altered. The kick, of course, is 100% identical to the demo song I posted earlier. Attached is an mp3, , a.vgm module, and a Deflemask .dmf module. Now ... can someone on here convert this to 6502 code and test this on an XM? If this actually comes out of an Atari 7800 ... OMG. zanac - area 1 and 3.mp3 zanac.vgm zanac.dmf

LOL, right. Kieren is the one who created it, with the sole purpose of trying to siphon off users from here so they can be indoctrinated with his lies. Not to mention the mountain of evidence of his lies that came from posts on there. You simply CAN NOT separate Kieren from JS3, even if he is pretending to hand the reigns over to you now.

Anyone can read this thread, without even being logged in. ..Al

As promised, I got a Raspberry Pi 4, compiled MAME on it, and ran some benchmark tests. I am honestly surprised. Have a look at my page: https://www.mizapf.de/en/ti99/mame/mamereq . You can scroll down to the second part of the page with the section "Small devices". The Raspberry Pi 4 is a huge improvement over the Pi 3. It is in fact so much better that it (... I hardly dare to say it...) runs the TI-99/4A emulation in MAME at full speed. Actually, I connected it to my Geneve monitor (with a comparably low resolution, 1360x768), but this is just good enough for the emulation. I'll check with my full HD monitor later, to see whether this lower resolution had any considerable impact. But again, wow.

the WINNER!!! thanks to all supporters several years in development and management for a great achievement!

You beat me to it. I literally laughed out loud when I saw that. ..Al

Careful, you are maligning a notable alumni of SJLS according to Wikipedia. So notable in fact that some anonymous person from Luton might have added them September last year.

I've updated the spacephysics sample to demonstrate how to import sprite sheets, and also to incorporate sub-pixel movement for the X coordinate. X coordinate motion now happens on a 320 grid, instead of a 160 grid, by using pre-shifted sprite data. The result is that slower movements appear less clunky now. The update is only in github right now, so I've attached a zip of this sample, and the resulting roms. spacephysics.bas.a78 spacephysics.bas.bin spacephysics_new.zip

Made it to 100,000 - lost a few silly lives early on though! 102,440

That action, in and of itself, can backfire on him quite badly if true. Just like everything else.

Hey guys! Just an additional update on Berzerk. See attached is the first draft of the box art cover (it's been done for quite a while)! However, we are not 100% sure that the Coleco logo will remain on the final product. But here it is anyways. The first rough draft! The arcade machine used in the photo is pboland's cabinet (yes the labels guy!). Although, Tony has an arcade machine of his own, the art and photography were done months before. Also, the cartridge label is 60% done (Not that hard to do honestly LOL) The manual still has to be started, along with all the scoring info and all that. My primary involvement with the project has been mainly the sprite graphics and animations in the game itself and physical art (box art, manual, etc...). Man, Tony is just killing it with the game! Only 32K WOW! Remember guys this is being programmed from scratch! Additionally Tony and I are committed to make sure this baby is near arcade perfect, at least as much as the Colecovision can handle. That's it for now. Kam

Pac-Man 4K - 30,300 Small improvement!

Was it? I recently signed up at a forum Kieren used to inhabit, and within 5 minutes got this from someone I've never even met or heard of as a Private Message: Pretty sure the UK Defamation Law covers Libel and loss of income/harm to reputation. I'll have to look into that. Although with everyone else getting in on his action, there won't be much left to pick at if he keeps things up. Again, Kieren, just get some mental health help and walk away now, while it is still possible with just your honour lost. If you keep pushing, people will have no recourse but to push back.

To be fair, they have a point. The ZX Spectrum Next has finally started shipping to backers. That was also two years "late" with an estimated delivery of Jan 2018. BUT, the crucial difference was that the Next team had to build a new computer from scratch. Atari are just rehashing the PC. Hmmm ... wonder where they're being made? Can't be China, surely. ?

What he said. ? Plus Iim getting very very close to having the Lynx GD (as it’s called) back on sale. And it will be available directly from AtariAge as well. ?

Days not weeks!

Yep, this isn't Atari-Sector, JSIII, RetroCanteen etc. Anyone can read, benefits of this being a public forum. Our discussions are on a nothing to hide basis. Some might not be popular with individuals, but everything is out in the open.

Kieren had an entire thread/discussion going on there dedicated to slandering myself and my Lost Atari Jaguar and other platforms, research. Kieren via yet another fabricated user account made the disgusting claims i had been sending this fantasy-creation user, death threats and made these claims on JSIII Roberth was coming from JSIII to post vile and disgusting comments about how Atari Age Moderators could die in a fire for all he cared and made sickening allegations about Moderators and past Atari Age members, who were gone from Atari Age long before I joined, on the comments sections of Jaguar Game reviews on YT videos by Second Opinion Games. Now given Roberth only arrived on the scene a few years ago, who would of been feeling him such posion to spread and for what purpose? The answers point to themselves. We can't simply leave JSIII,RVG forum, RetroGamer forum etc out as it's inconvenient for them. So much of Kierens behaviour is traced back to these. On RVG he knew he had a platform to wage war on this forum, plus he could get away with slagging off RG articles by fellow freelancers, such as Adam Bucanan, yet he wouldn't have that freedom on the magazines official forum, in fact he was running to Mods and hitting report over there as soon as anyone started putting his articles under the spotlight. All this talk of spies is childish. Kieren himself pushed to rejoin here and again i ask why, if he hated it so much? Kieren joined Retrocanteen forum,just to see what ex-RG posters were saying about him on a private forum. Yet again his double standards are blatant, what's good for the goose,is certainly good enough for the gander.

Year and a half away?

@Rogerpoco Here ya go! To everyone else: Please note - This is *NOT* me submitting a score for the contest.

Success! 4000B installed at CRU 1200 and it is playing nicely with it's 3000 series neighbor The available RAMBO RAM page map should max out at just under 2048K. Time to dig into the allocation and paging code!

Pac-Man 4K - 22,990 This is going to be a long and rough week LOL!.....Still ain't giving up though!!

99940

He first contacted me when I was looking for help to run a small one off retro gaming event, he asked if he could bring his Jaguar collection and write a review for his Atari Magazine/Fanzine. I was immediately warned by people to be cautious of him as a bit of a BS'ter, and informed he had previously claimed that a Spectrum game was written by him and later found out to be a lie as it was written by someone else, and had some other issues on the forums. I gave the benefit of the doubt. I had to buy a copy of the magazine to read the article he wrote. It was very poorly written with bad grammar and did not read well, but what annoyed me was it was factually incorrect and several things he had written were wrong. When I bought this up with him he told me he did not proofread his own articles. Later on there was another event I was involved in where he made a move on me and I refused his advances, as I am straight. After this not only did he turn others in the community against me, but he also contacted my girlfriend at the time on facebook and told her a load of lies about me, which for me was a step too far. I told a few people in person, but do not seek conflict so decided to block him everywhere and walk away. I was asked to be involved with another small event after this. When I found out he had involvement with the event, I warned them and pulled out, and then decided to leave the events scene altogether and spend more time concentrating on work and other interests. I do not think the whole of the retro gaming event community at the time was toxic, but certainly many people have mental health problems, and easily mislead and persuaded by the likes of him and is evil mate Jason Butwell. When I found out he had started writing for Retro Gamer magazine, I was surprised and I immediately cancelled my subscription.

Nobody has put up your: Home Address D.O.B Any Telephone numbers Your National Insurance Number Anyone sharing images from your FB group just means you have the right to BAN anyone sharing the imagery from said group. You are not dealing with idiots here Kieren. We are all professional adults. If you really did refer to Octav1us Kitten as a worthless slut and implied it was the individual known as Chris Wilkins of Fusion Books who made that claim, i hope Chris brings the full extent of UK legal proceedings into full effect to clear his name. Even for you, that is a new low point. Again..for for the love of god man, get professional medical help.

I just wanted everyone to know that Kieren Hawken is trying to get this thread taken down. Which, of course he would, as he doesn't want people to know all the harassment he's inflicted upon others. Here's his complaint: Sorry, Kieren, you're doing a damn good job destroying your "career" without anyone's help. You have nobody to blame but yourself, so stop playing the victim (again). For the last 15 years you have been lying, trolling various forums and websites, creating sock puppet accounts, manipulating people, and inflicting harm on communities you've interacted with. You've been banned from various websites, forums and Facebook groups during that time. You've blocked a large number of people on Facebook and Twitter, pretty much anytime someone looks at you the wrong way, you block them. You are a coward. I have never encountered someone in our community who lies as easily and frequently as Kieren. I would not take anything he states at face value, not without verifying it from a reliable source first. He could state the sky is blue and I'd need to go outside myself to verify it. Kieren, I see in your complaint you've listed some police reports, seems like a hobby for you! Good luck with that, I'm sure if you've actually done so these reports will be as effective as all the other police reports you've supposedly filed over the years against people. I can only imagine how members of your local police department roll their eyes every time you walk in. As for the rest of your complaint regarding "abuse", all I see in this thread are people describing their negative experiences with you. And good luck trying to get screen captures from public websites like Facebook and Twitter taken down. And, please, just because you have rules in your Jaguar Sector III group about sharing content outside the group, that doesn't mean jack squat in terms of the law. And trying to get links to YouTube videos removed? The whole point of YouTube is to share videos, nobody needs permission to share such links, so good luck getting those removed. Although all the links to your videos are now dead since your channel has disappeared, congratulations! If you don't want people sharing and discussing what you post, perhaps you should put some thought into your posts and the rather unflattering picture they paint of you. Fortunately, AtariAge isn't the only place where Kieren Hawken's behavior is being discussed. Chris Wilkins has put together an excellent post on Facebook regarding his dealings with Kieren, and many others have also commented about their interactions with him as well (click the date to see the full post and comments): And here's a fresh post from Octav1us if you really want to see how despicable and manipulative Kieren is (again, click the date to see the full post and comments): Are you going to file police reports against Chris Wilkins and Octav1us as well? Oh, also, thanks for this complaint, now I can give my lawyer your address so action can be taken against you, given all the libel you've posted (and that I have screen captures of) regarding myself and AtariAge over the years. Saves my having to dig this up another way. Here's a PDF of this thread for anyone who wants to download it and save it for later (warning, PDF is 23MB in size): https://atariage.com/temp/The_review_of_A-Z_of_Atari_ST_Games_Volume_3_book_RetroLaird_is_trying_to_delete!.pdf ..Al

Kieren finally pissed off enough individuals that he's been called out publicly by tons of people he's burned over the years.. He either removed his YouTube channel (he apparently was stealing content from others in order to make his videos) or it was taken down as it looks like people were copyright striking him. He's also removed his Twitter account (second time he's done that in the last month), and looks like he may be giving up reign of his toxic Jaguar Sector III Facebook group to Jeffrey from Wave 1 Games (who changed the cover image of the group yesterday, although Kieren is still an admin in the group). Two relevant links if you want to learn more: And on Facebook (be sure to read all the comments as well): ..Al

Seeing as it was slyly announced here: No ETA on this one at this time.

That's what we've been saying for years. If only he had channelled his time and energies into proper research, fact checking and ensuring his work was as accurate and informative as it could be, nobody would have any issues paying to read his RG articles and he could of easily established himself as a valuable asset for the likes of Chris Wilkins, numerous YT channels as projects require huge amounts of man hours. Establish yourself as a credible writer, launch your crowd funded book project, people will back it, invest profits into your next project and your well on the way to your chosen profession. He could of remained on RVG and been part of their homebrew publishing arm.. Done teacher training and taken Nolan Bushnell up on his offer of spearheading his educational software into UK schools If nothing else, you can't say Kieren has not been offered countless opportunities to establish himself as a credible force for good in the community. Which just makes it all the more bizarre why he's chosen to act in the cancerous fashion he has. No man is an island and you only go forward by working with others.

All good mate - do really want to get back into it very soon ?

WOW, INTERESTING how Kieren even finds out about a thread like this in such detail? Sock account member? He has spies working for him ? Now imagine in a world where he put even a tenth of the effort into actually doing serious work and contributing to the retro community INSTEAD of all the slander and malicious things he spends his life doing? It just boggles the mind but then I guess one should not seriously try to understand the rantings and behavior of someone like him. Seen many times before, the type you could catch in the act literally and yet he would somehow turn it around as if he is the victim. Sometimes I DO wonder how much of it is intentional and how much of it HE ACTUALLY BELIEVES HIMSELF? Either way, he is a big talker but he's got no case for a serious claim against this thread, it is only slander if it isn't TRUE.

I'm just going to repost the YT warning on making false accusations, just to highlight the clear and present danger Kieren now finds himself in: Do not make false claims. Misuse of this process may result in the suspension of your account or other legal consequences. There are serious legal consequences for making false accusations, then you have the issues of libelous claims made by Kieren. If the people i think are taking legal action against Kieren are going forward, your going to need a legal team Kieren and a bloody good one at that. If reports you were witnessed walking unaided at numerous Retro Events (likely someone would of filmed you walking and filming the events) are true, then you'd best hope the office of work and pensions doesn't get wind of it, if your claiming disability benefit for arthritis and inability to walk unaided, they are duty bound to investigate. I've never seen you at any of the conventions i have been present at, so they remain allegations, but they have been made.. The Fraud and Error Service will take action if they find the person has been committing benefit fraud. Action can include removing a person’s benefits and taking them to court.

Kieren has been caught: Creating multiple fake accounts to self promote, white Knight, slander, manipulate,discredit, sow distrust and much more within the community. These accounts have been used to claim named individuals issued death threats, were homophobic, sexist, targeted people with genuine mental health issues, hacked accounts and much,much more besides. These libellous claims have been exposed, documented and are now in the hands of numerous solicitors. They have been used to attempt to influence individuals from supporting and purchasing the materials of various sites,publishers and individuals. Kieren has made clear attempts to influence the Amazon.Co.Uk and Amazon.Com community review systems. Kierens YT channel has been caught using others footage without permission and videos had been pulled prior to the eventual closure of said site by Kieren, numerous copyright strikes had been filed prior to the closure. Kieren has seemingly issued numerous false claims about non-payment for work,by multiple individuals. Kierens Patreon account has been offering free downloads of copyrighted materials he has no legal right to be offering. I believe said Patreon account remains active. All information presented in this thread alone has been backed up by the testimonials of numerous individuals and has established the behaviour patterns of Kieren, stretching back more than 10 years. The misc forum posts highlighting Kierens behaviour issues and inability to interact with others via Social media are ALL from the Public Domain and showcase he was issued multiple warnings from not only the Magazine Editor,but senior forum staff. These warnings went unheeded. Kieren has been banned from multiple FB groups, Forums etc for his constant breaking of site rules. Kieren has been reported numerous times to EBay for selling materials without permission. All book reviews by myself on Amazon.co.uk, were approved by the site, therefore NO guidelines were broken. They have been removed by myself once it became apparent, just how far reaching and dangerous Kierens condition is. Numerous individuals including myself have repeatedly advised Kieren to seek professional medical help for his condition. No threats of violence have been made to Kieren, no campaign to boycott his publications has been implemented. Kierens employment history would also be looked into during any legal proceedings. Basically Kieren your established behaviour patterns both online and off have been your own undoing. Countless people befriended you, gave you their time and access to vast resources and you abused both trust and resources, rather than embrace the community that welcomed you. There was always going to be a day of reckoning and in the last 18 months alone, you went too far and upset too many of the wrong powerful people. You were no longer targeting utter knobs in the community like myself,but people who's sole sources of income depended on the very areas you struck at. It's that simple. You lost the Retro Gamer work,you so badly craved. You lost the Fusion Publishing work. If you've lost Future Bitmap Books work, again that's all on you. Are you going to report : Mr Biffo, Kim Justice etc to the police after once claiming them as friends?

I believe this thread is most excellent. ^^^^^ Many of the books of the era contain boring presentations of the subject with outdated/mind-numbing programming examples. Some argue the texts from the early 80s actually promote bad techniques. Obviously, these texts lack any and all of the lessons learned by programmers over the past 40 years. This thread is interactive with many AtariAgers participating in the transfer of knowledge. Do yourself a favor and join the Assembly on the 99/4A thread. You'll be impressed by the information you'll find by reading what's been discussed so far.

How about this cookbook? There are kids books too. This one has tacos and dragons, and there is a sequel. If I could have tacos and a dragon, I could care or less about about video games. Again, tacos are real, and one cannot rule out there may be a dragon somewhere.

SO well said! Thanks, Rick. Update: As of early 2020 no crash has occurred, homebrews are plentiful, and every year there are GREAT (especially in the AtariAge Store) and TERRIBLE (as with EVERY year going back to 1977) new games regardless of programming languages. As members of the community, let's continue to encourage all who have any inclination to make games. Even if their initial releases leave something to be desired, a START may lead to a CONTINUATION which will PERPETUATE the hobby and BENEFIT everyone. So there. Oh, and boxes ROCK!