I feel enough time has passed that I can publicly disclose what happened:
So while getting Sonic the Fighters up and running and possibly activating debug on live hardware (WE FOUND THE GODBIT TO ENABLE DEBUG MODE!!!), my other plan for the arcade board was to attempt to reverse engineer what is essentially a shell of an operating system that AM2 had created using the QT960 along with the existing Linux branch for the i960 to scan the KB-25 processor for flaws and vulnerabilities. Intel was offering bounties for finding vulnerabilities in their newer processors, hence Spectre and Meltdown were found, but I wanted to analyze the 80960KB processor as it shared similarities with military technology. Yes, the chip inside the Model2 lineup shares the bloodline of F-22 fighter jets. I felt I could try to make a buck and learn a lot too, but it was in late September 2017 I began to notice both my computer and phone acting strangely.
I was hacked and my phone was being tapped.
Some entity or organization had been spying on what were only theoretically possible notes to penetrate the processor and either wanted the vulnerabilities to themselves or wanted to prevent them from being found. In either case, it never happened as I was at the mercy of these hackers for quite some time and I think over time as I began to research more facts and collect books on the 80960 processor family that my notes, even theoretical, would take far more effort than I was capable of or access to technologies that were behind hardened locks and keys.
What had happened, I'm guessing, is they fuzzed my transaction on Retroelectronik.com and my PayPal so I could not order the supergun. To this day, Fabien has still not sent me the supergun I paid for and PayPal had eaten my payment. I have seen other members receive their orders here on the Arcade Project forums, and neither Fabien on eBay or his partner, ch0upette69, list superguns for sale since. I once tried to contact Fabien on the
wallbox2mp3 forms, but the site has been hacked with Russian spam and not even the clock on the server is alive. Speaking to Fabien through ch0upette69 allowed me to plead my case with both my Retroeletronik and PayPal order numbers, but I fear that I may never get the supergun I wanted. I have seen others and the customization of the Retroeletronik supergun would have fit my needs nicely for online Twitch play. I wanted to wire the supergun up to an arduino using the screw terminals, which would be controlled remotely by someone watching the same display input on a linux server that would also pass-through the inputs, allowing nearly live gameplay with myself on an actual arcade unit in my home. But as the story came to be, that didn't happen.
So am I still hacked? Is someone still watching me? The answer is "who knows", but as more truth came to me in the form of old books and manuals regarding the i960 processor, things seemed to simmer down and I don't know how much "heat" I generate anymore.
So yeah, wild story, and I'm still down a supergun.....