Boris Kretzinger's book on the history of the Atari Jaguar is freely available for download at archive.org. Kretzinger says, "It took my a while to get there, and I enjoyed every minute of it. I hope you will appreciate and enjoy it as well."
You can download the book here.
In 2023 the Atari Jaguar celebrates its 30th anniversary. Atari launched the console in 1993 with the claim of ushering in a new era. It was supposed to be so advanced that it would cement a firm place in the console market for the following decade. The hardware was celebrated by the press, marveled at by software developers, longed for by gamers — especially in Europe — and for a time even nervously watched by the competition. After all, the Jaguar was the first game console with two 32-bit RISC processors working in tandem, a 64-bit Blitter and 64-bit object processor as well as dedicated 3D capabilities. The timing for the launch also seemed chosen well: The top dogs Nintendo and Sega were still working on the respective successors to their 16-bit machines, and the Jaguar launched with at least a year‘s head start, according to everything the management in Silicon Valley could count on at the time...
You can download the book here.
