Atari Jaquar2 And Mirai And Panther

I know Atari is long and dead and people dont give a damm about them or their history anymore, but i do........i like them......ive known for along time about the atari mirai or rather the pictures of it.....whats the deal with it.....does anyone here actually have concrete info on the console.....also..what about the jaguar2 and panther......i need some really good info


thanks

 

Ooo there was a massive thread or two about the Mirai here a while ago, maybe a search will produce something...here http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4028&highlight=mirai

Answer to your dreams await!

 

you seem to be on a unreleased console vibe. if you didn't heard about it, search about the cosmos, it might pick your interest.

 

Wasn't it going to be called the Jaguar Duo?

 

Jag Duo was a Jag/Jag CD combo unit.

 

Oh, ok then. I better fix my other post.

 

As far as I know there are three Jaguar 2's. I know somone that has two of them. One boots and the other one doesnt. The two main procs on the mobo are socketed (one is called Oberton I think). They get extremely hot and overheat pretty fast because there is no heatsinks on them. I do believe that there is some software made for them but I don't know if he has it.

The JagDuo was a complete fake. It was just an empty shell made of wood.

The Panther does exist but as far as I know now one owns one in the Jaguar community but Atari did make some protos.

 

and could that person take some pictures of the jag2 for us?

 

A certain (obvious) someone on these boards apparently has a friend with one of the Jaguar 2 motherboards.

 

Yeah RPA, get some pics of that Jaguar 2.

Read somwhere that the four games were some kind of updated Pong, Tempest, a shooter, and Trevor Mcfur 2. Of course I'm problably way off.

 

It still ticks me off that Atari never tried to put their best Jaguar-based (CoJag) game on the home system. I can only imagine how many systems would have been sold strictly for the purpose of having an arcade faithful port of Area 51. Oh well, at least I have the arcade board

 

thansk for the link the thread

 

This is a pic of the non working one. It used to be owned my Clint Thompson but I think he sold it because he couldn't get it to work. Some of you might know Clint he is really big in to DC, really cool guy too.

 

Were there any shell mockups made? I'm curious, since there's apparently a JagDuo case with no hardware, and Jaguar 2 hardware with no case.

 

No known cases exist for the Jaguar II. Judging by the size of the mobo and shape I don't think Atari got that far into it before they closed the doors.

 

read my thread about Jaguar 2 - Midsummer here http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4040&highlight=midsummer

Jaguar 2 was known as Midsummer or Project Midsummer. that is the only real Jaguar 2.

the Jaguar CD was sometimes called the Jaguar 2 and the JagDuo (Jag + JagCD combo) was often called Jaguar 2


the real Jaguar 2, aka Midsummer, was often called Jaguar 3 by Atari - so don't be confused by all the crazy naming, when you go to search for info on Jaguar 2

 

And there are actually several Panthers - somebody on ebay.nl was selling one :O
(it went for around 200e, shame I couldn't pay up as the guy lives like 12km from me)

 

ive heard that trevor mcfur and tempest 200 were origianlly for the panther, was there any other games that began their life on the panther?

 

Cybermorph perhaps? There is a Panther version in existence in some form, at least.

 

atari and sega had soo much stuff in development that could have saved them....