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{{Infobox console
 
{{Infobox console
|title = Atari Jaguar
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|title = Atari Lynx
|logo = Atari-Jaguar-Console-Set.png
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|logo = Atari-Lynx-I-Handheld.png
 
|developer = [[:Atari]]
 
|developer = [[:Atari]]
|type = [[:Category:Home consoles|Home video game console]]
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|type = [[:Category:Handheld consoles|Handheld game console]]
|generation = [[:Category:Fifth-generation video game consoles|Fifth generation]]
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|generation = Fourth generation
|release = 1993
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|release = 1989
|discontinued = 1996
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|discontinued = 1995
|predecessor = [[Atari 8-bit#Atari XEGS|Atari XEGS]]
 
 
|emulated = {{✓}}
 
|emulated = {{✓}}
 
}}
 
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The '''Atari Jaguar''' (AJ) was a fifth generation home video game console produced by [[wikipedia:Atari|Atari]] on November 23, 1993 and sold for {{Inflation|USD|249.99|1993}}. It had a Motorola 68000 CPU and 2 custom RISC CPUs. It has 2MB of RAM. Despite the intense marketing efforts by Atari, the Jaguar is, in fact, a 32-bit console rather than 64-bit, as a whole; only one part of its two CPUs were 64-bit. The system's convoluted architecture didn't help matters either, which led most developers to just use the 68000 for gameplay logic. The console would prove to be the final home console release for Atari, before releasing plug-and-play versions of their older games. There was also a CD addon called the '''Atari Jaguar CD''' (AJ-CD).
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The '''[[wikipedia:Atari Lynx|Atari Lynx]]''' was a fourth-generation handheld game console released by [[wikipedia:Atari|Atari]] on September 1, 1989 and it retailed for {{Inflation|USD|179.99|1989}}. It has a WDC 65SC02 CPU. Notably, it was the world's first handheld system that used a color LCD screen, as well as having fairly advanced graphics for the time.
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Unlike contemporaneous machines, its architecture is based upon a frame buffer and a scaling blitter, providing both 2d sprite and background scaling and hardware support for lines and filled triangles. Because it has no inherent concept of a tile map or any sprite-specific hardware, the drawing budget is per frame rather than per line; there is no enforced limit in terms of the number of sprites or sprites per line other than that implied by the amount of drawing that can be achieved within an acceptable frame rate.
  
 
==Emulators==
 
==Emulators==
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! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Name
 
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
 
! scope="col"|Platform(s)
! scope="col"|Latest version
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! scope="col"|Latest Version
! scope="col"|AJ-CD
 
 
! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
 
! scope="col"|[[libretro|Libretro Core]]
 
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
 
! scope="col"|<abbr title="Free/Libre and Open-Source Software">FLOSS</abbr>
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! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
! scope="col"|[[Recommended Emulators|Recommended]]
 
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|-
! colspan="8"|PC / x86
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! colspan="7"|PC / x86
 
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|[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]
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|[[Mednafen]]
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
|[http://www.arts-union.ru/node/23 2.8.JAG]
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|[{{MednafenURL|releases}} {{MednafenVer}}]
|{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|{{}}
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|{{}}
|[[Virtual Jaguar]]
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|{{✓}}
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS}}
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|{{✓}}
|[https://icculus.org/virtualjaguar/ {{VirtualJaguarVer}}]<br />[http://virtualjaguar.kicks-ass.net/builds/ Unofficial builds]<br />[https://github.com/libretro/virtualjaguar-libretro Git] (libretro)
 
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} <small><ref group=N name=active>''Main branch is dead, but the libretro core is still alive.</ref></small> ||{{✓}}
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
|[[MAME]]
 
|[[MAME]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows|Linux|macOS|FreeBSD}}
 
|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
 
|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
|{{~}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}}
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|{{}}
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|{{✓}}
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|{{✓}}
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|{{✓}}
 
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|[http://pt.emuunlim.com/index.htm Project Tempest]
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|[[OpenEmu]]
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|align=left|{{Icon|macOS}}
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|[http://openemu.org {{OpenEmuVer}}]
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|{{✗}}
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|{{✓}}
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|{{✓}}
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|{{✓}}
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|-
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|[[Handy]]
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
 
|align=left|{{Icon|Windows}}
|[http://pt.emuunlim.com/index.htm 0.95]
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|[[sourceforge:projects/handy/files/|0.95]]
|{{~}} ||{{}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}}
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|{{}}
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|{{}}
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|{{✗}}
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|{{✗}}
 
|-
 
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! colspan="8"|Mobile / ARM
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! colspan="7"|Consoles
 
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|[[Phoenix (emulator)|IrataJaguar]]
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|Handypsp
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
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|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
|[http://www.arts-union.ru/sites/default/files/IrataJaguar_free_1.0.7.zip 1.0.7]
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|[https://psp.akop.org/handy.htm 0.95.1]
|{{✗}} ||{{}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|{{✗}}
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|{{}}
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|{{✗}}
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|{{✓}}
 
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|Virtual Jaguar
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|PLynx
|align=left|{{Icon|Android}}
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|align=left|{{Icon|PSP}}
|[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.icculus.virtualjaguar 1.01][https://github.com/lubomyr/virtualjaguar/tree/java_ui git]
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|[https://wololo.net/downloads/index.php/download/452 0.9]
|{{✗}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✓}} ||{{✗}} ||{{✓}}
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|{{✗}}
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|{{✓}}
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|{{✗}}
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|{{✓}}
 
|-
 
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|[[MAME]]
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|[https://github.com/frangarcj/HandyVITA HandyVITA]
|align=left|{{Icon|Android|iOS|Linux|Pandora}}<ref name=libretro group=N>Only available as a libretro core.</ref>
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|align=left|{{Icon|PSV}}
|[http://www.mamedev.org/release.html {{MAMEVer}}]
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|[https://github.com/frangarcj/HandyVITA/releases git]
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|{{}}
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|{{}}
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|{{✗}}
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|{{✓}}
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|-
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| WiiHandy
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|align=left|{{Icon|Wii}}
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|[https://github.com/raz0red/wiihandy git]
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|{{✗}}
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|{{✓}}
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|{{✗}}
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|{{}}
 
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<references group=N />
 
 
===Comparisons===
 
;[[Phoenix (emulator)|Phoenix]]:A newer closed-source emulator. More compatible than Virtual Jaguar. About 95% of Jaguar titles are compatible (full list available on [http://www.arts-union.ru/node/66 website]). No support for CD games yet. The PC version of the emulator is currently only available in Russian, but an [http://www.rlauncher.com/forum/showthread.php?4160-Help-with-3DO-Phoenix-2-8 English patch] is available.
 
;[[Virtual Jaguar]]:An open-source emulator based on the original by the same name. It has excellent accuracy and performance but behind Phoenix. Use the link given as "git" on this page and choose the most current version from there.
 
;[[MAME]]:Preliminary support. Some games boot but the emulation is far from perfect.
 
;Project Tempest:Was the first ever working Atari Jaguar emulator. It emulates some games, but most have issues. As its name suggests it was primarily made for Tempest 2000, with other games as secondary goals. Project Tempest is the first and only(?) Jaguar emulator that supports Jaguar CD games, but only two are compatible; Primal Rage and Baldies (the latter has sound distortion though). It is also the only emulator apart from Phoenix that can play Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. It has not been updated since 2004.
 
;[[Phoenix (emulator)|IrataJaguar]]: The Phoenix emulation project is released as separate emulators for Android, this is the Jaguar version. Identical compatibility to PC version according to the author. Requires fast 64-bit CPU 2GHz+ or better for full speed.
 
  
== Resources ==
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===Comparison===
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;[[Mednafen]]:Based upon Handy, but unlike other forked cores, its emulation only improves upon the original. Despite having the .lnx extension, No-Intro ROMs aren’t directly compatible with Mednafen nor Handy and must be converted with make_lnx, which is bundled with Handy.
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;[[Handy]]:Hasn't been updated since 2007. Only included here for reference.
  
* [https://archive.org/details/AtariJaguar Full No-Intro romset 03-01-16]
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===BIOS===
* [https://archive.org/details/atarijaguarmanuals Console Manuals: Atari Jaguar]
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All emulators require [[Emulator_Files#Atari_Lynx|a dump of the 512-byte BIOS]] named <code>lynxboot.img</code>. On Mednafen, put it on the root folder.
  
 
{{Atari}}
 
{{Atari}}
  
 
[[Category:Consoles]]
 
[[Category:Consoles]]
[[Category:Home consoles]]
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[[Category:Handheld consoles]]
[[Category:Fifth-generation video game consoles]]
 
 
[[Category:Atari consoles]]
 
[[Category:Atari consoles]]
[[Category:Atari Jaguar emulators|*]]
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[[Category:Atari Lynx emulators|*]]
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[[Category:Fourth-generation video game consoles]]

Revision as of 15:31, 7 August 2021

Atari Lynx
Atari-Lynx-I-Handheld.png
Developer Atari
Type Handheld game console
Generation Fourth generation
Release date 1989
Discontinued 1995
Emulated

The Atari Lynx was a fourth-generation handheld game console released by Atari on September 1, 1989 and it retailed for $179.99. It has a WDC 65SC02 CPU. Notably, it was the world's first handheld system that used a color LCD screen, as well as having fairly advanced graphics for the time.

Unlike contemporaneous machines, its architecture is based upon a frame buffer and a scaling blitter, providing both 2d sprite and background scaling and hardware support for lines and filled triangles. Because it has no inherent concept of a tile map or any sprite-specific hardware, the drawing budget is per frame rather than per line; there is no enforced limit in terms of the number of sprites or sprites per line other than that implied by the amount of drawing that can be achieved within an acceptable frame rate.

Emulators

Name Platform(s) Latest Version Libretro Core FLOSS Active Recommended
PC / x86
Mednafen Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 1.32.0-UNSTABLE
MAME Windows Linux macOS FreeBSD 0.264
OpenEmu macOS 2.4.1
Handy Windows 0.95
Consoles
Handypsp PSP 0.95.1
PLynx PSP 0.9
HandyVITA Vita git
WiiHandy Wii git

Comparison

Mednafen
Based upon Handy, but unlike other forked cores, its emulation only improves upon the original. Despite having the .lnx extension, No-Intro ROMs aren’t directly compatible with Mednafen nor Handy and must be converted with make_lnx, which is bundled with Handy.
Handy
Hasn't been updated since 2007. Only included here for reference.

BIOS

All emulators require a dump of the 512-byte BIOS named lynxboot.img. On Mednafen, put it on the root folder.

Atari logo.png
Consoles: Atari 2600Atari 5200Atari 7800Atari XEGSAtari JaguarAtari VCS
Handhelds: Atari Lynx
Computers: Atari 8-bitAtari ST