Just who was Matt Jackson?
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Just who was Matt Jackson?
Give or take four days, it's exactly four years since the incredible Astro Blaster appeared from nowhere:
There'd been no warning, no previews, there wasn't even an announcement or a web page to download it from. It just sprang fully-formed from someone nobody had heard of before or since and showed up on a couple of Speccy sites, and instantly leapt into the pantheon of the machine's all-time greats.
As far as I know nobody's ever spoken to "Matt Jackson" (well, I'm sure they have but not publicly), and after such a triumph of coding he seems to have vanished back into total obscurity without ever trying his hand at something else. Isn't anyone curious?
There'd been no warning, no previews, there wasn't even an announcement or a web page to download it from. It just sprang fully-formed from someone nobody had heard of before or since and showed up on a couple of Speccy sites, and instantly leapt into the pantheon of the machine's all-time greats.
As far as I know nobody's ever spoken to "Matt Jackson" (well, I'm sure they have but not publicly), and after such a triumph of coding he seems to have vanished back into total obscurity without ever trying his hand at something else. Isn't anyone curious?
Re: Just who was Matt Jackson?
Matt Jackson? Last I heard he was a defender for Everton in the mid-1990s - part of the team that won the FA Cup in 1995, which (other than the Charity Shield the following season which nobody cares about) was the last time Everton put a trophy in the cabinet.
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If I ever complete my current "todo" list of emulator-related stuff, I'd love to do a .pok patch to add Fuller Orator speech to this fab conversion.
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Well, it can't be both "Give or take four days" and "exactly four years" at the same timeStanVanman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 4:16 pm Give or take four days, it's exactly four years since the incredible Astro Blaster appeared from nowhere:
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I certainly was and am. He's not anonymous, as he gave permission via @Stefan for us to host the game via FB at the time. He may be very active on there for all I know.
Assuming it is a first Speccy game, it's a masterclass in every aspect. Bloody sickening!
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It's a retro scene, populated mainly by blokes in their forties and fifties, who lived most of their lives before it became normal for people to give a running commentary about everything they do on the internet.
There are plenty of things on the scene that appear like this, just that this is a particularly good/notable one - IMO. I have a couple of creative hobbies without any related activity in internet forums / social media.
Agree though, it would be interesting to know a bit of background.
There are plenty of things on the scene that appear like this, just that this is a particularly good/notable one - IMO. I have a couple of creative hobbies without any related activity in internet forums / social media.
Agree though, it would be interesting to know a bit of background.
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Oh *that*? Christmas which year? Yeah, I'll be back on it as soon as the next Inkspector release and docs are done.StanVanman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 26, 2023 11:13 pm Yeah, aren't you meant to be finishing Timeblasters before Christmas?
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Nah, "docs" is a new innovation for delaying stuff
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Love Astro Blaster. Amazing game.
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No great mystery - He's active on Facebook, working on a Defender clone, he replied to me about a month ago but haven't had any updates since then.
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