David Jones was my Steve Jobs growing up. Not only did I love Blood Money, he wrote an article on programming for Amiga Format about how the scrolling worked in

David Jones was my Steve Jobs growing up. Not only did I love Blood Money, he wrote an article on programming for Amiga Format about how the scrolling worked including working source code. I'd been trying to learn how to write a nice framework for my own graphic demos and mini games, but the code I found was mostly by bedroom coders and very scrappy. His code was the kind of code you'd expect an electrical engineering professional to write. Very clean and well documented and technically very good. I may well owe my 25 year year career in games (so far) to that guy, because the game I wrote subsequently got me a game job straight out of college when I had applications in to all the typical software companies at the time such as banks, ibm and bt.