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 / VIDEO MUSIC) from the year 1976. Hooked up to a stereo, it colored your television set with 2600-quality-graphics like hell...

This is just a sample picture of what your screen MIGHT look like. The patterns and colors depend on the music you play (speed, etc.), the settings you take on the V.L.M. and the graphics-bank you choose (with different variations). Try to imagine it moving and spinning, etc.
With a little trick you can define your own graphics-schemes, but unfortunately they cannot be saved and are lost when turning-off the JagCD or changing the CD in the drive!
Perhaps we will add more samples in the "Gallery"-section (not set-up yet).
We're even considering some mpg-videos...