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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. Re:Wow... by reidbold · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who modded this flamebait? This entire article is flamebait, I for one don't care that some guy that I've never heard of from some company I've never heard of was awarded a contract from microsoft for xbox 2.

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  2. Yay for Jeff! by zulux · · Score: 1, Troll

    Too bad for us that is with the XBOX, but congrats to Jeff for getting some eyeballs in front of his work.

    Unity (Jeff's VLM/Game) for the Gamecube was cancelled too soon.

    Sucks that it's an XBOX. I like the XBOX360 PowerPC clone of Nintedo's Revolution but hate the fact that Microsoft is using one monopoly in one market to buy their way into a second.

    Some of us like to see people earn their sucess, and not steal it.

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    Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.

  3. Ugh, why did it have to be the XBox360? by Intellectual+Elitist · · Score: 0, Troll
    I bought a Jaguar for Minter's Tempest 2000. I bought a Jaguar CD unit for his VLM. I even bought a Nuon DVD player for Tempest 3000 and VLM-2. I might've considered a Gamecube if his Unity project had come to fruition. But throwing in with Microsoft for VLM-3?

    I'm happy that Jeff's going to get his work in front of more people, but there's no way in hell I'm going to help Microsoft try to take over yet another market. Sorry, Jeff.