Atari Jaguar/CD combo unit original CAD drawings found

A slightly different kind of Games That Weren’t entry today, with some newly surfaced development material relating to Atari’s unreleased all-in-one Jaguar and Jaguar CD console.

John Hardie very kindly got in touch with GTW after going through an old floppy disk that he had obtained from Atari many years ago. To his surprise, the disk contained the original FlexiCAD vector drawings for the proposed Jaguar/CD combination unit.

Atari’s redesigned system was intended to combine the standard Jaguar hardware and Jaguar CD into a single unit, rather than requiring the familiar CD add-on which sits on top of the original console. The combination model never made it to market, although photographs of prototype hardware have surfaced over the years and the system was reportedly shown behind closed doors at E3.

John has now uncovered the original vector drawings showing the design from a number of different angles. As the files require suitable CAD software to view, John loaded them into an AutoCAD viewer and produced the images that you can see below.

It’s a fantastic little piece of Atari hardware development history to unexpectedly surface from an old floppy after all these years, and we’re very pleased to help document it within the GTW archive. A week later, John also released some diagrams on AtariAge showing the Panther controller, so we’ve quickly added this too.

With a huge thank you to John Hardie for getting in touch, preserving the original files and allowing us to share the images here and the DXF files for download. Also to Ross Sillifant for heads up about Panther Controller file share from John.

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• rejagcdcombounit
• Panthercontroller-diagrams

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