Fun fact: On the lower right corner there is the Xbox logo emitting waves to an imaginary surface below. The pattern is a watermark for the serial number of the device to be identified in case of leaked footage. Only during development of Xbox.
You don’t need to do anything complicated. Take a couple screenshots and crop to a slice where the rings are expanding horizontally. There is your barcode.
The first gimmick portfolio I’ve been genuinely impressed by. Beautiful, authentic and actually usable. The scanlines effect is chique, sound-effects on-point, and it is internally consistent in a way most of these sorts of portfolios aren’t. Very cute! :D
It's certainly not the real one[0], but looks a lot like the Winamp AVS/MilkDrop stuff. My Inspect Element -fu was however insufficient for getting a closer look.
Ironically I like Blades a lot more on OG XBOX (the JX720 theme for XBMC). Its 360 iteration got really crowded when MS added the Live blade and all the ad units. The NXE (what this site emulates) was Peak 360 IMO :)
Is there any chance the music section is legal? I would love to be able to put songs on my own pages, but I assumed it would be a legal issue? Is there a way to license songs at a reasonable price.
Your original question sounded like you were unaware of how licensing music works. Royalty-free is a good place to start. If you want anything else, you can still do it legally, you just have to license the music for your use case. Various artists (and labels) provide various licensing terms. If you know someone, they might let you do it free.
If you're specific question was meant to be "did this person license this music legally for his site?" - yes, there's a chance he did. There's a chance he didn't. You'd have to ask him. Even if he did, that doesn't give anyone else rights to use those songs on their site.
If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free.
> If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free.
Incredibly unlikely.
"Dance Yrself Clean" is owned by Warner Music Group, "Come On Eileen" is owned by Universal Music Group.
Both are highly litigious, extremely rights-protective and not in the habit of licensing music for free.
It is far more likely the person who put the site up just YOLO'd it and is hoping they never notice.
I loved the Blades dashboard. Something about idly pressing the shoulder buttons to flip through the blades while talking to my friend with that goofy wireless "Xbox communicator" on my ear.
Best Xbox console. It had pretty good games. Sad they were unable to keep that momentum going and are basically nope’ing from the console business altogether now.
I was able pull together a Halo 3 LAN party last year, although the "consoles" were Linux PCs and the game was the MCC edition (60fps instead 30). Split-screen was resurrected via mods. I bought some Microsoft gamepad receiver to bring Xbox 360 original controllers under Linux. Some people insisted they get to play on the original gamepad (otherwise it was a mixed bag of PlayStation and newer Xbox/PC controllers).
I also realized that Halo 3 itself would have been old enough to drink with us!
I don't know if the Altair 8800 would count as my first home computer, as I was too young to really understand what it was and mostly just liked to play with the paper tape feed on the Teletype attached to it. By the time we got the PET 2001, I was old enough to actually use it as intended.
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