The Atari Glossary: "J"

JAGUAR

The world's first 64bit game-console was the Atari "Jaguar", often referred to as the "Jaguar64". Released in 1993, Atari had a potential hit-seller, but due to lack of enough, and good, software titles, it lost the race against the "N64" by Nintendo and the Sony "Playststion".

JAGUAR CD

A CD-ROM add-on for the Atari "Jaguar" (released in 1995) with built-in virtual light-machine (>>video-music) programmed by Jeff Minter. The CD-unit could not prevent the Jaguar's failure in the market.

JERRY

One of the three chips that used to be the "Jaguar" chipset. "Jerry" runs at 26.6 MHz and incorporates the DSP (Digital Signal Processor, processor 4 of 5)

JUNIOR

JTS

 "Jugi Tandon Systems", a small manufacturer of hard-disk-drives. On July 30, 1996, Atari enters a "reverse merger" with JTS and vanishes from the market.