Boris K. Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 After two years, my book on the history of the Atari Jaguar is finished and can be downloaded for free. It was a great pleasure for me to dive into the story around this last real Atari console and talk to the people who developed for the system, were employed by Atari, sold the console and last but not least those who played with it at that time. Thanks for your insights to those who answered my questions along the way. I hope you enjoy it as well and would appreciate if you spread the word. https://archive.org/details/clipped-claws 22 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyprian Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 wow 308 pages. @Trabucco many thanks. I would read more about two topics: Atari 7800 vs Jaguar and Atari Blossom video card vs Jaguar. The first one - 7800's Display List (which is completely different from XL' Display List) is similar to Jaguar's Object Processor List (very similar structure and instructions). I wonder if Object Processor one was inspired by 7800. The second one - there was a rumor that Jaguar shares some technology with Richard Miller's Atari Blossom video card (both have a fast memory bus and the blitter). According to that post https://www.atari-forum.com/viewtopic.php?p=222157 "All three of them were from Sinclair: Richard Miller, Martin Brennan and John Mathieson. Richard Miller called Martin Brennan and John Mathieson since he got task at Atari to make 2D console (based on his experience with Blossom)." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterG Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 Thank you. Will read it with great interest. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwanSong Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 That's a amazing amount of effort. I would love if there was a physical copy I could purchase! I got some amazing neo geo books and like our love for old stuff opening a amazing book is still fun. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidGameR186496 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 7 hours ago, Trabucco said: After two years, my book on the history of the Atari Jaguar is finished and can be downloaded for free. It was a great pleasure for me to dive into the story around this last real Atari console and talk to the people who developed for the system, were employed by Atari, sold the console and last but not least those who played with it at that time. Thanks for your insights to those who answered my questions along the way. I hope you enjoy it as well and would appreciate if you spread the word. https://archive.org/details/clipped-claws This was an excellent read Boris! Especially the new info by former Jaguar game devs. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdanecki Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Any chances to get official epub or similar formatted file? PDF is nice and work of beauty but many ereader/epaper devices (totally a "random" example: Kindle) do not play nice with PDFs. Proper epub file with reflow allowed makes it much easier to read. And the archive.org built-in OCRed epub is really crappy from this perspective. I can personally help in doing some basic mastering of such an edition if needed. PS: Already started to read, I love all books that show first years of our home computing and this is so interesting you can still see and even sometimes talk to some of those guys that made those machines or facilitated its creation. PS2: Here is recording of the press conference that introduced Jaguar (yes, audio is barely acceptable - anyone want to take it and enhance it? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris K. Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 (edited) Thanks! With regard to an epub version: I am sorry to say that this is currently not on my priority list. I use a Kindle from 2012 myself, and this PDF works fine. But that is very subjective view and I hope you understand, since this is a pure passion project, that I probably will not look into that anytime soon. I will however update the file uploaded to archive.org if suggestions for additions and corrections come in via mail. @Cyprian: A very specific deep-dive question, probably John Mathieson can say something about this. You will not find the answer in this book, I am afraid. Yet. Edited February 23, 2023 by Trabucco 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 very well researched, nicely written! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
42bs Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Hmm, a book about Jaguar w/o even mentioning JagServer, BJL and homebrew scene? Nothing about Native. The first real impressive homebrew game (demo) for the Jaguar. " which correctly emulates all cartridges released for the Jaguar " It does not emulate the cardridges. It emulates the Jaguar. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xebec Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Boris - thank you so much for taking the time and effort to do this! I am starting the read — really appreciated!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris K. Posted February 23, 2023 Author Share Posted February 23, 2023 Thanks for the feedback, 42bs. You are right, the homebrew community on the Jaguar deserves probably a whole book. I decided only to tease that in the regarding chapter very briefly, as at some point, one has to draw a line and finish. Originally, I thought of leaving the chapter "Afterlife" out altogether. But then again, decided that maybe that will spark some interest for people not into the Jag at all right now to dip their toes into the topic and give the console a chance. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdanecki Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 19 hours ago, Trabucco said: I will however update the file uploaded to archive.org if suggestions for additions and corrections come in via mail. I am collecting lettering errors and such details while reading in my Kindle and will provide it to you. Anyway not being a native speaker this will be a limited help 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris K. Posted February 24, 2023 Author Share Posted February 24, 2023 I appreciate that, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted February 24, 2023 Share Posted February 24, 2023 I'll definitely check this out! It's very rare that there is any books or even record accounts of the Tramiel's ownership of Atari because that period was hardly documented (history is written by the winners, they say). The most important question from that time is, "Why did they always make those bad decsions?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Thank you! I've downloaded this to check it out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldSchoolRetroGamer Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Thanks very much BORIS this is very generous of you, I'll definitely be checking it out as well as spreading the word giving credit where it's due in full detail of course. 😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CyranoJ Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Factual error on page 6, before even the preface... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 Yep, it has a lot of errors. On the other hand, it's his first stab at a free collection of information. I'd recommend folks write to the creator and point out his mistakes so he can correct them. Otherwise, the incorrect information will remain in circulation and be accepted as truthful. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted February 25, 2023 Share Posted February 25, 2023 2 hours ago, ls650 said: I'd recommend folks write to the creator and point out his mistakes so he can correct them. Otherwise, the incorrect information will remain in circulation and be accepted as truthful. That's a good recommendation. Hopefully, the errors are corrected and an updated version is published. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris K. Posted February 25, 2023 Author Share Posted February 25, 2023 I will happily update it, that's the charm of a digital publication. The preface contains an e-mail adress you can write do. Cheers! 6 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueIn2Red Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 On 2/23/2023 at 4:16 PM, Trabucco said: Thanks! With regard to an epub version: I am sorry to say that this is currently not on my priority list. I use a Kindle from 2012 myself, and this PDF works fine. But that is very subjective view and I hope you understand, since this is a pure passion project, that I probably will not look into that anytime soon. In case it changes anything (probably not I know!) - the PDF format doesn’t work at all well on the new Kindle Scribe. Bad enough unfortunately to lead me to skip reading the book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostdragon Posted March 23, 2023 Share Posted March 23, 2023 (edited) On 2/25/2023 at 6:11 PM, Trabucco said: I will happily update it, that's the charm of a digital publication. The preface contains an e-mail adress you can write do. Cheers! Really appreciate you sharing this with the community and taking constructive criticism onboard and promising to fix errors found found by said community, in future editions. A few writers of ahem, note, could learn a lot from you. Downloading my copy now. Edited March 23, 2023 by Lostdragon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy1812 Posted March 24, 2023 Share Posted March 24, 2023 On page 204 spelling mistake - Accolade Acoolade‘s jump-and-run Bubsy in: Fractured Furry Tales Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lostdragon Posted March 24, 2023 Share Posted March 24, 2023 (edited) Quick correction needed. Edge gave AVP 4/10. Not 5/10 as Mike Beaton claimed on P88 Edited March 24, 2023 by Lostdragon 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFG 9000 Posted March 24, 2023 Share Posted March 24, 2023 4 hours ago, Lostdragon said: Quick correction needed. Edge gave AVP 4/10. Not 5/10 as Mike Beaton claimed on P88 I realize I'm about 29 years too late to this party, but Wow! That reviewer could not have missed the point of AvP any worse. It's not like Doom, it's not like Doom. Duh...it isn't Doom. It's not trying to be Doom. And I'm sure the timeline is documented somewhere, but it's entirely possible AvP began development before Doom even launched. It makes me think of Marathon, another early FPS trilogy, but one that eventually led to the creation of Halo. Marathon played nothing like Doom and was a fairly intellectual experience. But it was constantly compared to Doom and never garnered much of a fan following. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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