The #Atari Jaguar received a fine console port of #DOOM that used BOTH of the Jaguar's main processors to handle the graphics. Typically one processor would handle the graphics and the other would handle the sound.
That's why the game runs so smoothly on the system and why there is no in-game music (only between stages).
It was developed in-house at id Software and served as the basis for virtually all other home console ports moving forward. :atari:
If you fancy your "Doom console comparison video" with a seasoning of dry wit and a soothing Scottish accent, then you can't go wrong with @DavidXNewton's video! https://youtu.be/oRY421ZZyMw
Saw a post about Bubsy on the Atari Jaguar being "pretty good" and was in the middle of dumping a wall of text into some poor guy's replies about every single thing wrong with it.
Right when I got to the end and was about to hit the Publish button, I realized it was actually a post about RAYMAN on Jaguar.
Clearly, I still have trauma from being a teenager and my boss at the game store I was at paid me for 2 weeks to do nothing but play Bubsy on Jaguar until I finished it. You see, he was a hardcore Jaguar fanboy and had heard that the Jaguar version had something extra special at the end of it that no other version had, so he needed to see what it was.
For those of you who have never experienced Bubsy on Jaguar, it is 20 levels of pure pain caused by a fucked up momentum system combined with awful hit detection making it far easier to try to avoid every enemy than trying to kill them.
Got lucky and managed to order a used copy of Defender of the Crown from that limited official release by Cinemaware Retro via AtariAge a few years ago. It's basically the Atari ST version with an orchestral soundtrack. #atari#atarijaguar#collecting#gaming#retrogaming
I just uploaded my updated edition of Clipped Claws on the Internet Archive. It includes corrections and additional information after a conversation with Rob Lodes, composer at Atari at that time, as well as an appendix with all press releases I found about the Jaguar. This makes a total of 526 pages, whereby the appendix already makes up almost 200 pages alone. The page preview on the Internet Archive is not updated yet, but if you download the PDF, you will get the newest version.
BigPEmu v1.08 (www.richwhitehouse.com)
BigPEmu, an Atari Jaguar emulator.