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Jaguar

Overview

Introduced in 1993 by Atari, the Jaguar was a console system. It is grouped with jaguar titles in EmulationStation.

Technical specifications

  • CPU: Dual-processor architecture with a 68000 at 13.295 MHz and custom RISC chips Tom (graphics) at 26 MHz and Jerry (audio) at 26 MHz.
  • Memory: 2 MB main RAM, 1 MB ROM space, and 512 KB RAM dedicated to the GPU/Sound processors.
  • Display: Tom GPU handling 640×480 with 24-bit color, up to 16.7 million colors and hardware object-based rendering.
  • Sound: Jerry DSP offering 16-bit stereo audio with 2×16 kHz DACs along with DMA-driven CD-quality streaming.

Supported ROM extensions

cue, j64, jag, cof, abs, cdi, rom, zip, 7z

Emulators

  • bigpemu (bigpemu) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_BIGPEMU
  • virtualjaguar (libretro) – Requires BR2_PACKAGE_LIBRETRO_VIRTUALJAGUAR | Incompatible extensions: zip, 7z

Source data: REG Linux emulationstation/es-system/es_systems.yml