Skunkboard (REVIEW) - Atari Jaguar

Here is a first-impression review of the fantabulous piece of hardware, the Skunkboard for the Atari Jaguar.
kskunk & Tursi have brought Jaguar fans a WONDERFUL developers device as well as a way to load some of the freely available demos/betas of games for the Jag.
In the hands of a competent coder, we can see much faster results using the Skunkboard.
Please note, this "review" is only just the tip of the iceberg. This device is amazing and has some fantastic features, most of which I have no clue how to use yet ;)
I will learn more and post another more in-depth review chronicling it's uses. I would love to figure out how to use it for debugging purposes!
If you're one of the lucky ones who was able to get one of these, you know what I mean when I say this is one of the most significant releases in the Jaguar's after-life.

Category:

Entertainment

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• skunkboard
• skunk
• board
• atari
• jaguar
• jag

[Ultranothing]

How 'bout JCP -STFU and play a goddamned game?!?

[viMasterJag]

@Ultranothing Command not recognized

[veggav]

wow! It sucks so bad! How about an SD to avoid the use of a PC ? This is just a piece of shit. If you could flash it with a pc away from the jaguar it would be a little less shit but it would still be a piece of shit.

[viMasterJag]

@veggav SD is possible.

The design of this board is an older one that never came to fruition, but then the creator teamed up with another person and decided that instead of creating a whole new design using the newer technology, they'd just create this one, which already had all the homework & board schematics done for it. It would be an easier build, since they wouldn't have to start from square one.

Go ahead and build an SD adapter, if you'd like.

[hcubeentertainment]

Where can you get a skunkboard?

[viMasterJag]

@hcubeentertainment They're unfortunately out of production at the moment, but you can register up at Jaguar Sector 2 as there are people that sell theirs every once in a while. I believe there is someone in the marketplace right now that wants to sell his.

[A31Chris]

@veggav Well then don't worry about it. We are waiting for you to build one so we can play teh ROMZ. Hurry up. Whats the matter? You lazy?

[veggav]

@A31Chris in the end it's just an excuse for laziness. The same laziness that didn't add a save eprom. You are going to say devs are not going to develop games with save features? ;)

Don't worship a piece of shit like that skunkboard and don't give me that small crap talk like "it's not made for it", if you can easily add more to your project and just don't do it for laziness you are just being stupid.

[veggav]

@A31Chris No, this is build to be able to load roms. I talked with the dev itself and he said "it could have usb stick loading roms but nah it's not worth it". It's like saying a car can't go backwards because the main focus is to go straight ahead.

Now that I have a skunkboard and talked with everybody on jaguar sector I understand, people just don't care enough for this board to have roms loading from usb stick, that's it.

[A31Chris]

@veggav Really. Build your own. This isnt for you to run around play ROMS with, this is intended for development. Playing ROMS is just a side effect, not the focus. Build your own SD card.

[MrCumstein]

@Dannypage22 You = shit

[Ultranothing]

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[viMasterJag]

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