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
- 8k reserved solely for sound
- 29bit DSP (Digital Signal Processor with various filters etc
- 25 Separate voices each with independant volume
- Main resolution of 320 by 200 (non interlaced)
- 32 colours per line from a pallette of 262,144 colours giving 7,860 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!
(This information came from Zero Magazine (Issue 21, Dennis Publishing))