I remember reading about it on one of the Jaguar fan websites. The name of the hardware was "CoJag", so a search for info on that name should yield some info.
Doug "Thunderbird" Engel BattleSphere Assistant Coder / Lead Artist Scatologic
Actually, I believe you're referring to Carl Forhan of Songbird Productions. He's the guy who you gave your development systems and DOOM source code to.
He's been trying to come up with a revival of the DOOM code with another fellow.
Carl is the guy who's been publishing an additional 4 "complete but never published" Jaguar titles which someone else here already mentioned.
The problem you mention with the Jaguar being unable to run from system RAM was actually a bug in the memory controller. It was intended to be able to run from main RAM. There were quite a number of these (fairly crippling) bugs in the hardware, and we had to work around them to get BattleSphere completed. The fact that it runs at all is pretty amazing... (I'm not sure if this is something to be proud of or not.)
Doug "Thunderbird" Engel BattleSphere Assistant Coder & Lead Artist Scatologic
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I thought that was one of those "Jaguar Urban Legends" (a.k.a. marketing hype / vaporware) like MKII and Tiny Toons Adventures....
Did Dactyl Joust Really exist? Are there any remains of this game left?
Doug "Thunderbird" Engel
BattleSphere Assistant Coder / Lead Artist
Scatologic
I remember reading about it on one of the Jaguar fan websites.
The name of the hardware was "CoJag", so a search for info on that name should yield some info.
Doug "Thunderbird" Engel
BattleSphere Assistant Coder / Lead Artist
Scatologic
Also, keep in mind that "Area 51" and it's successor were running on an arcade version of the Jaguar chipset.
Doug "Thunderbird" Engel
BattleSphere Assistant Coder / Lead Artist
Scatologic
(And if you think THAT's sweet, just wait a few days when we unveil our company logo!)
Doug "Thunderbird" Engel BattleSphere Assistant Coder / Lead Artist Scatologic
He's been trying to come up with a revival of the DOOM code with another fellow.
Carl is the guy who's been publishing an additional 4 "complete but never published" Jaguar titles which someone else here already mentioned.
The problem you mention with the Jaguar being unable to run from system RAM was actually a bug in the memory controller. It was intended to be able to run from main RAM. There were quite a number of these (fairly crippling) bugs in the hardware, and we had to work around them to get BattleSphere completed. The fact that it runs at all is pretty amazing... (I'm not sure if this is something to be proud of or not.)
Doug "Thunderbird" Engel BattleSphere Assistant Coder & Lead Artist Scatologic