Jaguar Cartridge Shells and Boards

[albaki]

I was just looking at the 2600 section on atari age and they seem to offer Cartidge shells board etc. would this be available for the jag the boards would be no problem to make as the drawings for them are on the ATARI HQ cd And the roms should not be a problem at all.

 

 

Any comments on this matter welcome as not every jag collector has a cdrom unit and smaller games could be released. this would stirr up code development for sure

 

Regards,

 

Albaki :!:

[justclaws]

Hello,

 

I was just looking at the 2600 section on atari age and they seem to offer Cartidge shells board etc. would this be available for the jag the boards would be no problem to make as the drawings for them are on the ATARI HQ cd And the roms should not be a problem at all.

 

  Any comments on this matter welcome as not every jag collector has a cdrom unit and smaller games could be released. this would stirr up code development for sure

I would love to see availability of shells and boards which support either 1MB or

2MB ROM sets. I think it's a case of chicken and egg though. There are not any

really great homebrew games created that need to be on ROM, and so there is

no demand for the shells and ROMs. However, without them, everybody just

continues to develop for RAM use, since CD encryption found, for CD loading.

The cost of CDs of course is dramatically lower than a cartridge in any case...

 

However, Force Design/3D Stooges have said that their games will only be

sold on cartridge, (and there are some prototype game ROM images floating

around but they are generally not freeware), and so there is for sure demand.

 

The problem I think is also cost. Some Jaguar fans seem still to think that it's

going to be practical to create Jaguar games on cartridge and sell them like

AtariAge does for the 2600 homebrew scene, for very low prices, but there

is a world of difference between the shell design, the circuit board, and of

course principally the cost of 1 or 2MB of ROM, compared to 2K or 4K ROM.

 

Did I make it clear that I'd welcome availability? B&C do have some available

I think, however, but the prices are high, reflecting the limited stocks left now.

 

Cheers,

JustClaws.

[albaki]

Thanks for the reply

 

I take your point on the cost but i will still looking in to developing some form of cart in one form or another if anyone thinks this is a good idea please reply below

and i will try to to get it off the ground...........

 

 

Regards

 

Albaki

[justclaws]

I'm interested.

UK production even better for me.

I'll spread the word...

Cheers,

JustClaws.

[Starcat]

Hi!

 

Personally I prefer CD dev. However if 1 or 2 MB carts were available for a low price and if somebody offered a service to burn the roms and assemble the carts, I could imagine very well to use them myself as well. At least for smaller projects.

 

Regards, Lars.