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
• 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

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