Finally, I’ve been waiting for Linux to work on the Atari Jaguar before I pulled the trigger. People called me a hold out in 1993.
Ironically the Jaguar’s vintage status makes this the most expensive Linux machine on earth
/s
It’s worth nothing if it hasn’t been graded and placed in a sealed plastic box by a grading company that asserts that grading is awesome and things are worth nothing if they aren’t graded.
(sad \s)
$750-$1200. Seems like the average price of a PC these days.
Hence the “/s” tag.
According to the dev, the biggest challenge was that the Motorola 68000 lacks a Memory Management Unit. So, a standard Linux setup with virtual memory would not work. Luckily, Linux still supports m68k systems without an MMU by using the uClinux/NOMMU option and a flat memory model.
I was honestly expecting it to be weirder hardware, turns out it’s a configuration the kernel already supports. Still neat, but somehow a bit of a letdown.
The DSP stuff is cool though, that’s sufficiently weird for me.
That’s cool however can the Atari Jaguar run Doom?
It’s an OG port lol https://doomwiki.org/wiki/Doom_(Atari_Jaguar)
