Inventor of the XBOX in DCU

H2G2 · 04-03-2008 3:58pm #1

I reckon this may be of interest to some of you...

Seamus Blackley, Inventor of the XBOX and game designer will be delivering a talk entitled PHYSICS, the XBOX and BEYOND, Monday 10th March @ 3.30pm in HG20 Nursing Building, DCU. Its open to students and its free. For more see
http://www.dcu.ie/physics/xbox_registration.php3

dregin · 04-03-2008 9:15pm

"inventor of the xbox"..... not exactly hard to make a PC look like a games console, is it?

H2G2 · 05-03-2008 11:07am

Hindsight (noun)
Inclination to see events that have occurred as more predictable than they in fact were before they took place

c0rk3r · 05-03-2008 11:55am

Play nice dregin. If it wasnt exactly difficult why didnt you do it ?

Anyway ill pop my head into this. Only stick to the pc for gaming for obvious reasons, heh. Never played the xbox but im sure this will be interesting non the less.

dregin · 05-03-2008 12:25pm

lol. What exactly did the xbox do that was innovative apart from cram a PC into the space once occupied by a console? It's original name was "directx box" for a reason,

gizmo · 05-03-2008 1:03pm

Saying that it's merely a PC crammed into a box is rather shortsighted in fairness. While alot of the hardware is based on PC parts, could a machine with a 733MHz CPU coupled with an old GeForce 3/4 play some of the games found on the XBox? I think not in fairness.

As for Blackley himself, not only did he "invent" it but he also came up with the initial proposal and lead the team that developed it. Plus he's been involved in several high profile studios within the games industry including Looking Glass, creators of both the System Shock and Thief series.

All that is certainly reason enough to go, pity it's during working hours but fair play to the Physics Dept. for getting such a high profile speaker.

GavMan · 05-03-2008 8:13pm

dregin wrote: »

lol. What exactly did the xbox do that was innovative apart from cram a PC into the space once occupied by a console? It's original name was "directx box" for a reason,

Well we eagerly await Dregin's own console to take on Xbox for world dominate

Give it a rest will...

Winters · 05-03-2008 9:07pm

The Phantom > All Consoles.

Clearly.

H2G2 · 07-03-2008 3:39pm

Original Message
From: "Emer O'Hara" <science@dcu.ie>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 10:46 AM
Subject: [DCUstaff]X BOX LECTURE-CANCELLED

> Dear all
>
> Please note:
>
> Due to unforseen personal circumstances for Seamus Blackley (Inventor of
> the XBOX)
> The scheduled lecture due to take place on Monday 10th March @ 3.30 pm
> has *unfortunately been cancelled.*
>
> We apologise for any inconvience this may cause.
>

StickyMcGinty · 07-03-2008 3:44pm

ah ffs dregin, you scared him off!!

Inventor of the XBOX in DCU

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