Can you run an operating system with a graphical user interface and applications on the Atari Jaguar? Well, you can.
A long time running idea and work-in-progress, I’d like to finally announce the current version of JagOS ‘Spot’ for the Atari Jaguar, running from the RetroHQ GameDrive.
I’m slow at releasing things and try not to announce in-progress stuff due to lack of free time but would like to push this along. Maybe it’ll motivate me to work on it more if the interest is there or just release it as-is if not. The idea is based on the unreleased Atari Jaguar Painter Computer prototype, that a merged Falcon with Jaguar chipset-based computer would have found its way into consumer hands after the Falcon030.
↫ Clint Thompson
The screenshots and YouTube video are quite impressive, but as it’s not actually released, it’s difficult to really say anything more about this project for now. I hope there’s enough interest to get this project’s code out there so it can be further improved and expanded.
The problem with Atari was too many “what if”…
FR : https://www.gamingsince198x.fr/entre-nous/pas-achetees/jaguar-atari-le-petit-pot-de-tramiel/
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Pretty much the same content with a few changes :
FR : https://www.obsolete-tears.com/anecdotes-atari-dossier-67.html
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The problem with Atari was (and is?) the management. And no inovations after the Falcon030.
Lynx design: Bought.
Jaguar design: Bought.
And recent Atari: Selling old wine in new bottles. 🙁
Portfolio was “bought” too, the problem was indeed the management, thinking they were shitting gold and diamonds.
They over-promised too much, announcing projects they just dreamed about the night before.
I just read a French interview when the Jaguar was just starting to sell in France and obviously “Atari was already working on Jaguar 3 and 4”.
Completely out of their mind.