October 21, 2009
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Microsoft’s DirectX framework (1) was code-named Manhattan Project (2). This caused a bit of controversy, but any association to evil was soundly denied by MS.
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October 22nd, 2009 at 11:27 am, GMT +0000 ( 1256210832 )
Direct X was codenamed Manhattan Project, which had caused a bit of a hue and cry.
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:48 am, GMT +0000 ( 1256212098 )
Directx logo resembled the radiation sign/hazard symbol.
Also an early name for the directx project was “Manhattan Project”.
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Microsoft denies this exclusive association of Directx with evilness. It’s a companywide policy.
October 22nd, 2009 at 12:04 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1256213077 )
The development of DirectX was codenamed the Manhattan Project and the logo was based on the radiation symbol to represent bombing the Japanese game makers out of the market, according to Alex St John. Microsoft denies this.
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:54 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1256226841 )
The logo for DirectX originally resembled a deformed radiation warning symbol. Controversially, the original name for the DirectX project was the “Manhattan Project”, a reference to the US nuclear weapons initiative. Alex St. John, the games evangelist at the time DirectX was conceived, claims that the connotation with the ultimate outcome of the Manhattan Project (the nuclear bombing of Japan) is intentional, and that DirectX and its sister project, the Xbox (which shares a similar logo), are meant to displace Japanese videogame makers from their dominance of the industry. However, this meaning is publicly denied by Microsoft, which instead claims that it is merely artistic design.
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:03 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1256241782 )
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Controversially, the original name for the DirectX project was the “Manhattan Project”
October 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1256246794 )
The codename for DirectX was the Manhattan Project, and someone claimed this was deliberate, and intended to dethrone the Japs from their video game dominance.
Just like 60ish years ago..
October 22nd, 2009 at 11:19 pm, GMT +0000 ( 1256253541 )
DirectX logo. Initially directX project was codenamed Manhattan Project.
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:03 am, GMT +0000 ( 1256256212 )
The DirectX logo originally resembled a deformed radiation warning symbol and all that Jap bombing jazz!
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:47 am, GMT +0000 ( 1256258821 )
DirectX logo-Manhattan Project-Xbox logo basically displacing(literally) the Japanese.
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:06 am, GMT +0000 ( 1256260014 )
DirectX was codenamed Project Manhattan. And logo being radioactive caused a minor controversy.
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:06 am, GMT +0000 ( 1256281616 )
Direct X was also called Manhattan project
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:36 am, GMT +0000 ( 1256287004 )
DirectX logo and the Manhattan Project.
To quote wikipedia: “The logo originally resembled a deformed radiation warning symbol. Controversially, the original name for the DirectX project was the Manhattan Project, a reference to the US nuclear weapons initiative. Alex St. John, the games evangelist at the time DirectX was conceived, claims that the connotation with the ultimate outcome of the Manhattan Project (the nuclear bombing of Japan) is intentional, and that DirectX and its sister project, the Xbox (which shares a similar logo), are meant to displace Japanese videogame makers from their dominance of the industry.”