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Revision as of 18:37, 5 July 2003 by 67.75.4.213 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Atari Jaguar and the Atari Lynx were the last two Atari systems to be developed, not by Atari but by outside contractors; Atari did not want any direct involvement in hardware production. In 1990, Martin Brennan and John Mathieson said that not only could they make a console far superior to the Sega Genesis or the Super NES but be cost efficient at the same time. Atari immediately agreed and the system was released in 1993 for $250 under a $500 million manufacturing deal with IBM.
Initially the system sold well, but didn't sell well due to delays of games and delays in the 3rd party games.The final nail in its coffin was the release of both the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn.
Their effort was in vain, and production of the Jaguar stopped after the mearger of Atari to JT Storage JTS. JTS sold the rights to the remaining unpublished Atari games for the Jaguar and Lynx to Telegames (www.telegames.com). Later Hasbro bought Atari from JTS (JTS later on filed for one form a bankrupcy after another and is now gone). Hasbro relased some updated classics but then sold it to Infrogrames and renamed themselves Atari (possible to avoid the anti french backlash...they are french). Atari trades under ticker ATAR.
Jaguar has some underground development (as do most systems made up to around the dreamcast) see www.atarihq.com or for links www.atarihq.com/interactive
Specs
| CPUs: | "Tom" (the video processor) - 32/64 bit graphics processor at 26.59Mhz, 64 bit object processor, 64 bit blitter, 64 bit DRAM controller
"Jerry" (the audio processor) - 32 bit DSP at 26.6Mhz Motorola 68000 at 13.295Mhz |
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| RAM: | 2MB |
| Storage: | Cartridge - up to 6MB |