The Jaguar is a video game console of the company Atari which is based on the processor Motorola 68000.

1993 the published equipment with 13.295 MHz and were equipped with 64-Bit diagram and 32-Bit sound chip are clocked. The two special chips with the names Tom and Jerry have an RISC architecture. The Design of both processors proved however as unsatisfactorily validated, countless errors forced a "“avoiding"” the software developer on the stable however MC68000 no longer with market entrance up-to-date. The 68000er works internally with 32 and externally with 16 bits (data bus). The console has four 512KByte DRAM chips, which result in together 2MB main storage. The diagram chip supports hardware scrolling, Gouraud Shading and scaling (Texture Mapping, Morphing against it not). For the equipment about 50 plug-in modules with plays appeared, before which attitude of all jaguar products by Atari still some few CD-ROM became published. Some enthusiastische manufacturers (scatoLOGIC, Songbird Productions, Starcat development, etc.) produced however still thereafter new titles and are partially this very day active. Likewise also a very enthusiastische and strong fan municipality held the loyalty for the system, and waits still longingly for new plays. Special hope carriers are classical author Remakes, how Gorf Pluz, WAD Bodies, Clicks! or diagram the Adventurespiel Eerievale.Die of modules can contain up to 6MB software and the Spielstand partly on EEPROM store. This last project carried out by Atari was not despite for the time at that time of advanced technology a commercial success - the estimated sales figures were between 125.000 and 250.000 units, those of the jaguar CD drive assembly about 10.000. The console was developed considerably of the Flare2-Chipdesignern Martin Brennan and John Mathieson. The manufacturing took place in co-operation with IBM.

Since newest a new medium for future Jaguar is plays in development beside modules and CD. Here it concerns a Compact Flash adapter module, which is to make it possible to publish Jaguar plays on Compact Flash. This alternative would be more favorable and at the same time short load times and large storage capacities would make possible.

Planned successor: Atari Jaguar 2

This console was intended for 1996 to release - probably due to the activities with JTS and few the money, which still had Atari, one did not finish.

The technical data:

• CCU: "“TOM II"” (contain the processors 1-5), 292 pins, 1.25 million transistors
  • Processor 1: GPU; 64-Bit RISC architecture (64/128-Bit-Register-Prozessor), rated 127.902 MIPS/63.951 MHz
  • Processor 2: programmable object processor; 64-Bit RISC architecture
  • Processor 3: Blitter
  • Processor 4: Texture Mapping engine; 64-Bit RISC, without texture up to 2,5 millions Polygone per second
  • Processor 5: JPEG/CMPEG combination chip

• Coprocessor: "“JERRY II"”, 900,000 transistors, 196 pins

• Digitally signal Processor (DSP): 32-Bit-Register; 53.3 MHz, 16-Bit Stereo 50 kHz

• Motorola 68EC020: 26.59 MHz

Plays (plug-in module)

• Air Cars (ICD)
• Alien vs. Predator (Atari)
• Atari Karts (Atari/Miracle Design)
• Attack OF the Mutant Penguins (Atari)
• Barkley Shut UP and Jam (Atari prototype)
• Battlesphere + BattleSphere GOLD (scatoLOGIC)
• Breakout 2000 (Telegames)
• Board Hull NHL Hockey (Atari prototype)
• Brutally sport football (Atari)
• Bubsy in Fractured Furry of valley (Atari)
• Cannon Fodder (Virgin)
• Check-talk flag (Atari)
• Club drive (Atari)
• Cybermorph (Atari/Attention ton detail)
• Defender 2000 (Atari)
• Doom (Atari/id software)
• Double Dragon V: The Shadow of case (Williams)
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee story (Atari)
• Evolution: Dino Dudes (Atari)
• Fever pitch Soccer (Atari)
• Fight For Life (Atari)
• Flashback (computer game) (US gold)
• Flip Out (Atari)
• Hover Strike (Atari)
• Hyper Force (Songbird Productions)
• I-being (Atari)
• Internationally sensitive Soccer (Telegames)
• Iron Soldier 1 (Atari/Eclipse) + Iron Soldier 2 (Telegames/Eclipse)
• Kasumi Ninja (Atari)
• Missile COMMAND 3D (Atari/Virtuality)
• NBA Jam Tournament (Atari)
• Pin ball Fantasies (21st Century)
• Case of pit: The Mayan Adventure (Atari/Activision)
• Power drive Rally (TimeWarner)
• Protector + Protector Special edition (Songbird Productions)
• Raiden (Atari/Fabtek)
• Rayman (Ubi soft)
• Ruiner pin ball (Atari)
• Skycopter (Carousel/WalMart)
• Skyhammer (Songbird Productions)
• Soccer Kid (Songbird Productions)
• Space was 2000 (Atari prototype)
• Speedster II (Carousel/WalMart)
• Super Burnout (Atari)
• SuperCROSS 3D (Atari)
• Syndicate (Ocean)
• Tempest 2000 (Atari)
• Theme park (Ocean)
• Totally Carnage (Songbird Productions)
• Towers II (Telegames)
• Trevor McFur into the Crescent Galaxy (Atari)
• Troy Aikman NFL football (Williams)
• Ultra Vortek (Atari)
• Val D'Isere Skiing and Snowboarding (Atari)
• White Men Can't Jump (Atari)
• Wolf stone 3D (Atari/id software)
• Worms (play) (Telegames)
• Zero 5 (Telegames)
• Zool 2 (Atari)
• Zoop (Atari)

Plays on CD-ROM

• American Hero (prototype existed)
• Baldies (Atari)
• Battlemorph (Atari/Attention ton detail)
• Black Ice White Noise (B.J. west - prototype exists)
• Blue Lightning (Atari/Epyx)
• Brain DEAD 13 (ready-softly)
• Caves OF Fear
• Demolition one/COMM other Blood
• Dragon's Lair (ready soft)
• Highlander: The load OF The MacLeods (Atari)
• Hover Strike: Unconquered of country (Atari)
• Iron Soldier 2 (Telegames/Eclipse)
• Hunt Ads (Starcat development)
• Myst (Atari)
• Native demo (Songbird Productions)
• Ocean Depths (Starcat development)
• Painter (Sinister development)
• Phase Zero demo
• Primal rises up (TimeWarner)
• Soulstar
• Space Ace (ready soft)
• Varuna's Forces
• Vid Grid (Atari)
• World route Racing (Telegames)

Further titles were announced, were not however any longer converted. Some plays are by emulator on the PC executably, e.g. with Project Tempest: http://pt.emuunlim.com/

Related links

• RETROBASE.NET, all jaguar plays in the detail with Screenshots
• Starcat development, among other things Ocean Depths, Eerievale
• Eerievale homepage
• Jaguar CF creator
• Planet Atari - Atari Jaguar, Lynx and VCS 2600! (German)

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