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Xbox 360 Lightsynth

Posted by Zonk on from the trippy dept.

Ophion writes "Renowned digital artist Jeff Minter of Llamasoft has created a new lightsynth that will be built into the Xbox 360. More information on the console's music player is available from Microsoft." From the post: "I believe it finally begins to achieve the potential that I saw all those years ago when I first made Psychedelia... and I am happier with it than I have ever been with anything I've created in my entire career. And we got it into the firmware again... Microsoft firmware. Of the Xbox360 for goat's sake. At last... after more than 20 years' work, one of my lightsynths is going to reach a decent sized audience. Millions and millions..."

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  1. I wonder... by KDR_11k · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ... how many will now call Mr. Minter a sellout.

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    1. Re:I wonder... by Golias · · Score: 2, Interesting

      As soon as I get done googling Jeff Minter, reading TFA and figuring out what the hell a Lightsynth is and why the hell I should care, I'll be happy to call him a sellout. ... Not that I consider "sellout" to be a bad thing. That word stopped being an insult which carried any weight sometime around 1972.

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  2. Re:Wow... by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Dude. I've been around gaming since PONG, and I've never heard of either of those games!

    I think Mr. Yak's problems are that he has an uncanny knack of choosing hardware platforms which are doomed to utter failure.

    Witness his numerous games for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga, and then the Atari-commissioned Llamazap for the Falcon 030. If you've never heard of that particular Atari computer, then that should indicate how successful it was.

    He wrote Tempest 2000 for the Atari Jaguar. Then another version for the Nuon. Which you've probably not heard of either. Oh, and he was working on Unity for the Nintendo Gamecube, but presumably some Nintendo bigwigs sensed that impending-doom vibe - the game got cancelled instead of the console.

    So, basically, Minter on Xbox 360 means that the Xbox is going to die a horrible, horrible death in the marketplace... ;-)

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