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Sight for the sound...enter the V.L.M.


Virtual Light Machine

The Virtual Light Machine built into the JaguarCD is a very impressive work of programming. Done by the remarkable and well-known Jeff Minter, the VLM offers psychedelic graphics to your television screen while playing your favourite audio CDs on the Jaguar.
The VLM (as well as Tempest 3000, etc.) looks into a bright future as being implemented into the new NUON-technology used in future DVD players and set-top boxes (VLM-2).
The VLM is based on the quite unknown (for non-Atari-insiders) 'Atari Video Music' (see a picture in Atari / more Atari) from the year 1976. Hooked up to a stereo, it colored your television set with 2600-quality-graphics like hell...

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