Atari Falcon030 Demoing

Just a few demos on my old Atari Falcon030 back in 2003. (sorry for the super low audio).

Space Junk was a very promising looking game that sadly never was finished.

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[meowmmmmm]

I personally think Atari's last biggest screw ups were: A. Not including Tom and Jerry processors from the Jag into the Falcon, so the Falcon could be used as a Jag development platform focusing on 3d. (It would have also been a great computer) B. Atari not including the 68030, and CD Rom into the Jag from the beginning. Developers would have been much more eager to develop for the Jag with cheaper and larger media over expensive cartridges.

[Neon360]

@meowmmmmm I couldn't agree more! However, I'm not sure how close to completion the Tom and Jerry was to make it in the Falcon in time but it almost would have made it well worth in delaying the Falcon.. or, they could have released the Falcon Microbox which I want to say was going to be a form of the Jaguar ala PC but never made it and with a 68040.

I can only imagine a Falcon as such... would have been awesome.

[richcsst]

Actually, speaking as a former Atari employee, Atari's problems were not consoles, nor computers. Atari's problems stemmed from Jack Tramiel entrusting Atari's operations to his completely incompetent and egotistical sons. These idiots had the collective IQ of the Water Boy. Atari had no money because they spent it all on their own extravagance, their own personal piggy bank.  They didn't have the drive their father had. Atari failed because Daddy let the brats in.

[nebby6]

Ah the Falcon.

Sweet machine!

[vk4akp]

Wow, It looks almost half as impressive as an Amiga computer! :) .-.-.

[MrHabaki]

Atari Falcon... best computer... period!



[madmomentsgo]

any way i can get a copy of these games i have the atari falcon emulator 1.5.0 hard to find games for it. hope you can help.

[Drachenreiterklaus]

0:34 - 1:00 Cool, the Sound is from the Amiga 5 Disc Megademo Odyssey !!!

[AtariAndre42]

@richcsst I believe you.

[joecassara]

@richcsst I can't speak to the ability of Gary or Sam, but Leonard Tramiel is far from a halfwit. 

[meowmmmmm]

@meowmmmmm A team in Europe is working on Medusa, a much faster clone of the Falcon. I keep bugging them to add the Jag Tom and Jerry hardware. Maybe one day. In the meantime, if someone can take a Jag, or Jag 2 (Cobweb) and clock it at 3.2 GHz like my PS3, I am sure it would be blistering fast. :-)

[meowmmmmm]

@richcsst Panther used a cut down version of Blossom found in the ATW. The ATW used it mainly as a frame buffer as the Transputer's did virtually all of the rendering. Except from the integrated ram, Videl in the Falcon is faster, and with an external clock adapter could output to higher resolutions.

Tom & Jerry were developed over years, and were designed to work with 68K based processors. Jag graphics are much faster than Blossoms. Ideally, Videl would have had Tom and Jerry integrated

[meowmmmmm]

@Mfkxia927 I understand the data bus problem. To include a full 32 bit data bus would have required much more expensive hardware, and drove the cost higher. I guess with the case, they were trying to cut costs, and not alienate home users with a business style case, but ended up alienating business users in the long run.

[Mfkxia927]

@meowmmmmm

I agree on A, but I think the biggest mistake of them all was to use 16-bit data bus instead of 32 bit making the F030 pretty slow.

Another stupid and easily avoided mistake was to use the outdated ST case that made the F030 look like a toy made for the kids room instead of a professional computer.