Atari Panther
The Atari Panther was scheduled to be launched in 1991, however it was Not released, as the Jaguars development was rapid and Atari saw an opportunity to "skip" a generation. It was a 32bit console & predecessor to Jaguar. Two known games were written for it, Crescent Galaxy and Raiden.
Hardware Specs
- Motorola 68000 running at 16Mhz
- 32k of fast static Ram
- 64k of ROM
- 65536 Sprites at the same time
- Hardware scrolling
- Ensoniq Chip "Otis" @ 8 MIPS
- 8k reserved solely for sound
- 29bit DSP (Digital Signal Processor with various filters etc
- 32 Separate voices each with independant volume
- 16-Bit Stereo sound of PCM
- Stereo headphone jacks
- Chip "Panther" (from the "Blossom" - project)
- Main resolution of 320 by 200 (non interlaced)
- 32 colours per line from a pallette of 262,144 colours
- 7,860 colours on screen at any one time (very impressive for the day!)
- 32bit Graphic processor running at 32Mhz
- 2,000 sprites on screen at any one time!
- output via Antenna, RGB and SVHS
- Genlock option
- Control: 2 Multi functions Joystick ports
- 3-button-Joysticks
This information came from Zero Magazine (Issue 21, Dennis Publishing) & other sources