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Atari Jaguar

Distributor: Atari

Manufacturer: Atari

Released:1993

Units Sold: 500,000 approx
RS: 3/2
Expect to pay: 80 GBP

List of games available at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Atari_Jaguar_games

Best Fan Site:

www.atariage.com
General Info:

Atari Jaguar is a video game console, released by Atari Corporation in 1993. It was designed to surpass the Mega Drive/Genesis and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in processing power. It was in competition with 3DO and later consoles that made up the Fifth generation of video game consoles. The console was first released in selected U.S. cities in November 1993, and the rest of the country in early 1994. Although it was promoted as the first 64-bit gaming system, the Jaguar proved to be a commercial failure and prompted Atari to leave the home video game console market. Despite its commercial failure, the Jaguar has a large fan base that produces homebrew games.

Best selling game:
Alien Vs Predator

Top 10 Must have games:
Cannon Fodder, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Tempest 2000, Double Dragon V, Flashback, Sensible Soccer, Raiden, Missile Command 3D, Pitfall The Mayan Adventure.

Key Accessories:

The Atari Jaguar CD or Jag CD was a CD-ROM peripheral for the Atari Jaguar video game console.

Late in the life span of the company, Atari released this long-promised CD-ROM unit. The device sat atop the Jaguar console, plugging into the cartridge slot, the physical design of the system sometimes compared to a toilet. The drive had its own cartridge slot to allow cartridge games to be played without removing the CD drive. There was a separate "Memory Track" cartridge for storing saved game position and high scores.
Jaguar VR Package

Technical Specs:

Technically, the Jaguar was impressive. Five processors reside in three chips, two of them being proprietary with a third being a Motorola 68000 coprocessor. The GPU runs at 26.591Mhz and is rated at 26.591 MIPS (Millions of Instructions Per Second). There is a 64-bit data bus for communication and two megabytes of fast-page mode DRAM. Development systems cost between $7,500 and $9,000 and ran on IBM PC or Atari TT030 computers, with art development possible on various other machines.

Technical Advice:

Answer to a Question taken from Club CD Freaks re: Backing up your disk collection

The Jaguar CD format is a non-standard format that is not compatable with

the ISO-9660 standard. It uses audio-format sectors for data, which

allows for 2352 bytes of useable space in each sector. Unfortunately,

this leaves no provision for error correction or file system management

(though errors are detected by the CD Drive hardware). Each disc is

copy-protected with encrypted data that is specially formatted to look

like an error. Attempts to copy a Jaguar CD will fail because it cannot

read the encrypted data, which means the copy will not work.

last ebay check £25 boxed

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