14th April 2011, 12:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 14th April 2011, 2:17 AM by A Black Falcon.)
That's pretty cool, I wish there was something like that around here. :)
I've heard a lot about Jaguar CD drives being quite unreliable. That's part of why they cost so much, they're rare first (20,000 probably is all that was made), so there weren't many, and then a bunch broke over time and some of the things that can go wrong apparently aren't easy to fix. Of course that means that it's a risky purchase, who knows if it'll break soon and you'll have nothing to show for your money, but if you're a diehard Jaguar fan, you want a Jag CD. And as sites like Atari-Age prove, there are still a surprisingly large number of Atari console fans out there.
As for the base Jaguar though, as it's solid state it's not as unreliable as the CD unit, but given how cheaply made they apparently were, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were indeed unreliable systems. The Jaguar itself is a little on the uncommon side too, only 250,000 were made... and Atari had only sold about half of them in early 1996, more than two years after launch, according to reports they issued at the time (while preparing to give up, close down, and sell off the company).
I've heard a lot about Jaguar CD drives being quite unreliable. That's part of why they cost so much, they're rare first (20,000 probably is all that was made), so there weren't many, and then a bunch broke over time and some of the things that can go wrong apparently aren't easy to fix. Of course that means that it's a risky purchase, who knows if it'll break soon and you'll have nothing to show for your money, but if you're a diehard Jaguar fan, you want a Jag CD. And as sites like Atari-Age prove, there are still a surprisingly large number of Atari console fans out there.
As for the base Jaguar though, as it's solid state it's not as unreliable as the CD unit, but given how cheaply made they apparently were, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were indeed unreliable systems. The Jaguar itself is a little on the uncommon side too, only 250,000 were made... and Atari had only sold about half of them in early 1996, more than two years after launch, according to reports they issued at the time (while preparing to give up, close down, and sell off the company).
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