By coincidence I came across Jeff Minter’s company Llamasoft and surprisingly discovered that it was still going strong.
Jeff Minter, probably most famous for his somewhat… surreal C64 games (“Attack of the Mutant Camels”, “Revenge of the Mutant Camels” and even “Metagalactic Llamas Battle at the Edge of Time”), apparently has been hacking away on light synthesizers for the past twenty years.
His light synthesizers are complex visualization modules either music-controlled or driven by human interaction. And his latest incarnation, Neon, is actually used in the Xbox 360’s dashboard.
The Neon Light Synthesizer in Action.
Who would have guessed that Llamasoft code would end up in the Xbox 360 firmware?