Can you describe it? I thought the code was all C? Or were the tools written in Objective-C? Either way, that's very interesting (big Objective-C fan, here).
my memory is blurry on the topic, so don't quote me on any of the following...
if i recall correctly, directtv boxes are all essentially just web servers and even expose some methods via http. i believe i heard that their hud/gui/etc is all written in javascript and html. incidentally, they also did this a decade ago (or so) when javascript was still quite young.
wow, didn't realize tangential programming conversation was so frowned upon. maybe if they made breakout instead of a television gui the relevance would have been more clear.
Clairvoyant, those 90s game developers were.