LSD / AUTOMATION / HAL / Matthew Smith

[jetsetdanny]

I received this link a couple of days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_13ewhXFWgY ...

... so I'm sharing it here 🙂 .

[HAL]

I used to be a very good freinds with Matty (that's what we all called him back in the day)

I shot the vid & I put it on YT 🙂

Chris Barton one of my best friends for 40 years he was Tommy Bartons son (co owner of software projects) and one of the major reasons the game was released but could not be finnished - is because Chris was an alcholic, weed smoking maniac & SP's official games tester & he told his dad, he had finnished the game LOL.

How do I know - I was there 🙂

I also have all the artwork from SP's games in my house, and Tommy's copies of Jet Set and Manic hanging on my walls and yes I can prove it.

HAL

Edited 8 hours ago by HAL

[jetsetdanny]

Thanks for the inside info, HAL! 🙂 

[HAL]

5 funny stories for you - me / Matty & Chris where walking back to software projects after going to a local chinese restaurant, when we noticed smoke coming from the complex of offices around SP then as we approached it was like OMG it is SP it's on fire - I had never seen Matty run so fast ever (he's built for coding not running), as he took off he was shouting about all his work and hard drives. We got into the building and Chris had left a bar fire on a chair (maniac) and it had fell off and set a light to the chair.

2 - My mum said he's too scruffy and always wanted him out of the house - she had no idea who he was - even after explaining.

3 - He dressed scruffy even when he went on Concorde LOL

4 - In SP he had his own office and it was a real garden shed and he had it because the stink of the weed he smoked had everyone including important visitors coughing so they built the shed for him in the furthest place they could from the main offices - so as to keep the smoke in. He used to sleep on top of it, he had a mattress and a sleeping bag up there.That shed is where JSW was born.

5 - That video is about the biggest cracking crew on the Atari ST and some others from the cracking scene - they where wanted by FAST - Federation Against Software Theft - I knew them all well - what I didn't know because Chris was a crazy nut case - was Tommy Barton was one of the founding members of FAST - his DAD LOL    I found that out 30 years later - things you can't make up. MY story is even crazier - google Atari Legend hal alan keeling  🙂

I'm nearly 60 so I don't care about sharing this- have fun thanks for keeping Matty's legacy alive, also Matty is one of the nicest people you could ever meet 🙂

Edited 4 minutes ago by HAL