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That's when I got my first one. There was always a lot of good looking games that required Extended Basic, but they were always very expensive.

Yep. most likely in cartridge and CD format. Which brings up a good subject... Is there a good place to buy Jaguar cartridge shells, or something similar?

I found one!

Does any one have a Jaguar flash cart they are looking to sell? Or, can someone point me to someone selling one?

My favorite was the Neo Geo Portable:

Cannon fodder is great, assuming you like the game. Every other version has load times, except maybe the Mega Drive version, but that never made it to the US. And, the Dos version, but that won't play on modern PCs. The Jaguar version loads and plays quickly. The only thing I miss is a mouse.

Switch platforms, start a new project,etc.... That might help a little.

Put it in a blog. I do that for my own amusement (and to remember how the hell I did it the first time).

Thanks for the post. I missed half the stuff you mentioned. I'll have to check it out tomorrow.

Swoops seemed like a good game, but I can't find any information on it. Anyone have a link or something? Thanks.

I'll be there Saturday and Sunday (promotin' Frog Feast). I'm staying at a LaQuinta (spanish for 'who ran the bulldozer through this hotel?') about 1.6 miles from the convention center. Anyone bringing any Neo Geo MVS games? I need to find a cheap one to test an MVS unit I just got. Any get togethers planned for Friday or Saturday night?

I created a blog, and gave you proper credit. Frog Feast Blog Thanks for the idea. This should be a nice way of giving people a glimpse of the ...err.. insides of Frog Feast (Kinda like a dissection in science class). Currently I'm posting stuff about the development tools stuff.

Do they ask him what drugs he was using when he developed it?

I finally got some of the issues with the Atari Jaguar CD version sorted out. For some reason clearing the BSS is causing a problem. I also have some random lock ups and stuff. I'll have to look into this deeper. The good news is, the flickering and corrupt sprite problem has magically vanished. I also created a cdi image that works under Project Tempest. (Obviously Project Tempest bypasses the CD validation.)

My Marty finally came earlier this week, and I had to spend about two hours adjusting the program for the Marty, but it works. It flickers a little, I need to do double buffering.

The part about being able to fly through 'it' sounds pretty amazing. Would that make it a 3D psychedelic scene?

It looks like the new XBox will have a VLM. Jeff Minter has created Neon for the XBox 360. Jeff Minter's Neon.

So, is Track 2 of the BJL Loader CD a dummy track?

Didn't know that, that makes things a lot easier then. Maybe that was an issue with an earlier version of the bios.

I was reading in the manual yesterday about the boot track. The manual said the track could contain more than 64k, but only the first 64k could be loaded, and the rest would have to be loaded by the code. Is there an easy way to do this, by resuming where that last cd_read left off or something? Also, if a marker is used, is it also read into the buffer (using cd_initm)? If the marker is read into the buffer, the program could be compiled as one big track, and the marker would indicate where to start loading the rest of the track into memory. The program would only need to have cd_initm, cd_read, and cd_ack added to it (plus a small amount of support code). Once the rest of the track was loaded, the program would run the same as the BJL version. Am I missing something? In theory, it sound fairly easy. Granted, you would have to pad out the data before the marker to a sector boundary, but that's not too difficult.

It'll be a single load. I'm just trying to cut down on the number of CDs I burn. I may have to burn to CD-RW, and create an image from that..

Yep. I was impressed with the machine when I first saw the Marty in Japan. It was a 386 based system that showed that PC could have been designed as a game machine. After starting Frog Feast, I knew it had to be playable on the FM Towns Marty. I'll probably be lucky to sell 5 copies, but it's amazing seeing the game run on the Marty, or at least in UNZ until my Marty arrives.

Is it possible to create a Jaguar CD image without burning it to CD? I would like to test out my game, in an emulator, without burning a CD for each test. It seems like Project Tempest can play a few Jaguar CDs. It works with Baldies and Primal Rage at least.

I'm working on a Frog Bog (Frogs and Flies) clone. Check out the Frog Feast website.

Ok, the new version is definately up there.