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How Jeff Minter Met The 360
The Guardian Gamesblog has a piece on Jeff Minter's hookup with the Xbox 360. From the article: "It basically happened because a certain well-connected friend of mine really liked what we were doing here with VLM3 on the Gamecube, and brought someone from MS here to see. He in turn got very enthusiastic, and went back to MS and began bending ears. It took a fair bit of prodding and sending of demos but eventually it progressed to the point where I got hold of a devkit. Once we had proper live 360 code running it turned from 'maybe' to 'definitely!'."
It's where all hip burnouts and has-beens go to die...
Rare...try to find anyone from the original dev teams walking the halls...
Bungie...getting bought out by MS hasn't changed anything...nope...not a thing...
Minter...was somewhat cool back in the ST days, now...
Landing in xbox land is basically letting the console world know you just don't give a shit anymore.
You do know that Microsoft doesn't sell computers, right? So they would have had to purchase the PPC dev kits from somebody, and it just so happens that Apple does (for now) indeed produce a fine PPC computer. Maybe it would be embarassing if they were using Apple's software, but they weren't. Maybe it's ironic/funny in some alternate universe when people use the right tool for the job, but not in mine.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.