The Atari Panther was the 32-bit predecessor to the Atari Jaguar, developed by the same ex-Sinclair team Flare Technology responsible for the Flare One and Konix Multisystem. It was scheduled to be released in 1991, but Atari decided to abandon the project in favor of the Atari Jaguar. Image File history File links The development system of the Atari Panther. ... Image File history File links The development system of the Atari Panther. ... For the concept Atari (当ãŸã‚Š) in the board game of Go, see Atari (go term). ... The Atari Jaguar The Atari Jaguar is a video game console introduced in 1993 as a powerful next generation platform. ... Flare Technology was a trio of ex-Sinclair employees based in Cambridge in the UK. Founded in 1986 by Martin Brennan, Ben Cheese and John Mathieson they initially did work for Amstrad whilst developing the 8-bit technology demonstrator the Flare 1, based on the ZX Spectrum under the codename... The Konix Multisystem was a great endeavor by Konix after the success of the Konix joystick. ... The Atari Jaguar The Atari Jaguar is a video game console introduced in 1993 as a powerful next generation platform. ...
It featured three chips, consisting of a Motorola 68000 running at 16Mhz, an object processor called the Panther, and an Ensoniq sound processor called Otis, featuring 32 sound channels. The Panther could display 8,192 colors from an 18-bit palette of 262,144 colors, and supported 65,535 sprites of any size simultaneously. The Panther was never manufactured as the design was eclipsed by that of the Jaguar. Motorola NYSE: MOT (TYO: 6686) is a global communications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. ...
Games
Two games were planned for the Panther's release: Crescent Galaxy and Raiden. They were both rewritten for the Atari Jaguar upon the former console's demise. The Atari Jaguar The Atari Jaguar is a video game console introduced in 1993 as a powerful next generation platform. ...
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The AtariPanther was the 32-bit predecessor to the Atari Jaguar, developed by the same ex-Sinclair team Flare Technology responsible for the Flare One and Konix Multisystem.
It was scheduled to be released in 1991, but Atari decided to abandon the project in favor of the Atari Jaguar.
They were both rewritten for the Atari Jaguar upon the former console's demise.
Previous to the Panther decision, Atari were also toying with an ST based video game console, but this wouldn't have competed technically with the newer consoles now dominating the market.
Panther was very close to actually going into production, but was shelved at the last minute as a parallel project within Atari showed much more promise and much more power - that project gave birth to the Atari Jaguar nearly 2 years later.
Apparently, Atari was developing the Panther and Jaguar consoles in parallel, but the Jaguar suddenly began to overtake it's stable-mate.
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