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Re: What if Atari allowed Jay his dream?
« on: February 10, 2013, 11:12:56 PM »
Quote from: psxphill;725977
The Jaguar 2 had a custom RISC processor.

And so did the "1" - you weren't supposed to use the 68000 really, it was more of a bugfix/developer smoothing incident.

The riscs had a good few bugs in them AFAIK and so the general computing model and compiler generated code was hurting/failing. The 68000 meant developers could get code working much faster than getting to know a new architecture and having to work out whether the game bugs were hw or sw. The riscs thus became accellerators.

Wasn't the 2 supposed to be more or less a cleaned up Jag with the 68000 dumped and more 3D oomph? Someone will correct me any moment now.