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  1. This page suggests the manufacturing contract with IBM was a 30 month duration. The article in the page is from July 1993. The contact probably has all sorts of provisions in it about extensions and events that might result in defaults and cancellation of manufacturing before that term fully elapses, but for simplicity, if it's 30 months going Forward from July 1993, that brings you to January 1996. https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/atari/museum/ibm-jag.html
  2. I'd also add that it scared Sega into creating the 32x, so clearly Sega didn't think of it as a joke when it was brand new.
  3. Wow just looked them up on eBay and like all limited run Jag stuff they have become quite the expensive item, at least the asking price.
  4. Once upon a time it was not that expensive to collect for Jaguar. You could get a used system for around 30 bucks and games like Raiden and tempest for 30, stuff like cybermorph and club drive for like 10. This lasted from the late 90s until around 2015. Many of the forum users here started collecting during that time, as it's enticing to explore these rare systems when cost of entry is just pocket money.
  5. Could put them in a little border window like super Gameboy or using an emulator on PC with a bezel/screen overlay. That would decrease the size somewhat and also emphasize that these were intended for a smaller screen.
  6. Could readily piggy back off what the community has done. License a new version of bigpemu that has CD support, utilize the company/molds that were tooled for the pro controllers that starwander had produced. Umm I guess the actual Jaguar console shell molds still exist too... Wouldn't exactly be a mini system then, but that is another large expense off the table if they are used and available versus making new molds..
  7. Getting a portfolio of epyx games would be cool, since they made a lot of great games for Atari systems, and like, the entire half of the lynx library that wasn't licensed arcade ports. That would open up some good titles for future lynx compilations or dare I imagine it, a lynx mini 😁
  8. Or hover strike with wireframe mode?
  9. Jaguar was a disaster by 1995 and Atari knew it. They were aware how many they had produced, and how many had sold (like 200K systems, which is paltry numbers for making this the sole business of your company). Sure they could yolo the cash infusion on marketing and hope that their years old system will compete with the new nintendo/sega/sony stuff that everyone is excited about, but the writing was really on the wall that this is a losing venture for the company and by 1995 Atari knew it. The sega collaboration was never going to amount to much. This was the outcome of a lawsuit and sega wasn't exactly enthused with this direction. Memos and internal messages at Atari that have been published in this forum before basically show that Atari was requesting sega's state of the art and best selling stuff like Virtua Fighter and in return Sega was basically saying "here's a list of 5 year old 8 bit master system games that are eligible for porting to Jaguar."
  10. I use a desktop. It was very affordable compared to a laptop, and a little more comfortable to use.
  11. Very cool. I agree it would be neat to run this in a kiosk. So at any rate, what sort of picture or graphics plays on the screen while the album music plays? Maybe just a little text based playlist or background picture? Or might there be some kind of visualization of the peaks and valleys of the music that plays?
  12. Thanks, what's up with the camera/steering? Did you have no compatible analogue controller?
  13. Looking really smooth in this video! https://youtu.be/rLadpoUGcGM?si=ugtQLTjQDH9Cfkpg
  14. California games and zarlor mercenary are the two I've spent the most time with. California games was a pack in for many lynx systems so you really ought to play it to get a sense of the lynx experience that many had back in the day. In my opinion it's quite a bit better than other versions of California games on other systems.
  15. Anyone feel like uploading a video to show how the game plays now? I can think of many other Jag games that would be awesome with improved framerates, like almost all of the 3d games...
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