Llamasoft - Xbox 360 - Oh yes.

Tanatoes · Post by **Tanatoes** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:34 am 0

Buggerit. Now I have to buy a Microsoft console.

Hope some good games come out too.

Fuzzle · Post by **Fuzzle** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:34 am 0

I forgot to say: congratulations! Hopefully you got a % out of the deal, but either way, it's nifty. Looks like a big-time thing for you.

My only question: how exactly do you max out 3 3.2GHz cores?

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:37 am 0

Snakey wrote:
Yak wrote:The thing is both Giles and I stayed up late to see if anything of it would be revealed in the MTV special (and I don't think it is, they don't give a lot away in that from what I have read about it), and we'd both just reached the conclusion that we were safe until Tuesday, and so he went to bed. I had a last look at forum, saw this thread, saw the beans being spilled by Barry himself, and thought "oopsie, I was a bit wrong there then"

And Giles has missed it, slumbering away thinking that nothing's happened!

By literally a couple of minutes!

Damn, an' all that!
Ah well - party tomorrow, then

Seriously man, so utterly happy for you, this is a major, major thing.

And I'm really glad that it's finally out of the bag - the number of people that have asked me "do you know what Jeff's working on now?" and I've had to say "Yes - but I can't tell you" was growing by the day

Yeah, it's been purely hard to keep it all under wraps

... we'll all breathe a bit more easily now we don't have to be cloaked any more

.

I wanna upload screenies but I better wait until officially sanctioned... it's all good. It's the damndest thing you ever saw. it's VLM all grown up

. It's beautiful

. We are so happy and proud of it

.

*hugs Snakey and the world*

*Now* you know why I need that plasma

.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:41 am 0

JB Lars wrote: Swear to fuckin' god, if I smile any bigger, the corners of my mouth are gonna meet at the back of my head.

Giles and I have been calling that one "the 360 degree smile"

Rambozo · Post by **Rambozo** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:41 am 0

Yak wrote:
Rambozo wrote: Wait....Yak is making the VLM for XBox 360?

HO

LEE

SHIT

I will now be purchasing an XBox 360, no joke.
Not making. *Made*. It's done. And if I say so myself it is fucking awesome.

Yeah, this is *huge* .

You are the king of awesome. I kiss your hooves.

abducta · Post by **abducta** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:43 am 0

Yak wrote:
JB Lars wrote: Swear to fuckin' god, if I smile any bigger, the corners of my mouth are gonna meet at the back of my head.
Giles and I have been calling that one "the 360 degree smile"

....no seriously can i use that.

JB Lars · Post by **JB Lars** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:46 am 0

Yak wrote:
JB Lars wrote: Swear to fuckin' god, if I smile any bigger, the corners of my mouth are gonna meet at the back of my head.
Giles and I have been calling that one "the 360 degree smile"

So it's not just me, then? Fantastic. Even better that there's a specific name for it.

I gotta imagine that if I'm grinning like this over a) a favorite developer getting a big break and b) online acquaintances getting that same (well-deserved) break, then the grins in the Cow Barn over a) getting to create and SEE said landmark tech and b) being the ones actually GETTING that break gotta be right close to 359Âº.

fflip · Post by **fflip** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:48 am 0

Woah! Knockout news.

Congrats.

Now that's something to look forward to

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 13, 2005 4:55 am 0

Two things...

Firstly, huge congrats to Yak, Giles and all the team - this is some amazing coup!

Count another Xbox 360 as sold!

And secondly, Goat bless those devilishly clever Microsoftians.

Max_Sterling · Post by **Max_Sterling** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:02 am 0

Fucking oh my fucking.....

Must save money now..

*hugs to Yak and Giles*

Congrats

I'm just wonderfully happy now

thalamus · Post by **thalamus** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:10 am 0

dtj wrote:Well I'll be dipped in shit and chicken-fried. Nightmare becomes reality.

The phrase you're looking for might be "Congratulations!" or "Nice one, Jeff".

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:19 am 0

Hooray! Congratulations to the team for the umpteenth time, every success is deserved. This Thing is so special, I can't bloomin' wait.

I am seeing the mind of God. Cue collapsing chair.

To the past, present and, most of all, the future: let there be light.

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:20 am 0

well I'm off to bed.. this all happened rather unexpectedly early

More info to follow. We are so chuffed here

.

Many thanks for all the goodwihes

... I promise you that you will not be disappointed. I think we've done rather well

.

/me hugs *.*

Now I really must roost... the dawn is coming up outside, and it really has been an extraordinary effort keeping this all hidden...

I'm just gutted that Giles must have missed it by literally a couple of minutes.

/me wavies tiredly but happily

Nos... more soon

.

fihu · Post by **fihu** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:20 am 0

That'll be my christmas then.

*crosses fingers for backward compatibility*
(out of space reasons, not monitary

)

Bogdan · Post by **Bogdan** » Fri May 13, 2005 5:20 am 0

Yak wrote:
dtj wrote:Well I'll be dipped in shit and chicken-fried. Nightmare becomes reality.
Oh, that's be "nightmare" as in "20 years of work finally getting a platform for global release" then. Suits me just fine mate.

Thank you Microsoft, thank you J Allard, thank you all the guys who worked hard to make this "nightmare" real.

More details to follow soon. We have a bunch of stuff being prepared but as I mentioned before I thought we were safe till Tuesday .

Suffice to say we're pretty chuffed here .

Congrats on getting your work published on a winning platform!
At last you'll have the exposure you've deserved!