What is Jagware ?

Jagware is an online community whose aim is to gather as many talented people as possible, in order to develop games for the Jaguar 64 bits console.

What does Jagware offer ?

• Support from experienced Jaguar enthusiasts, including some professionals (coders, graphic artists, musicians, mathematicians, electronics engineers...), all interested in working together.
• Public forums open to everybody.
• Private forums for team projects. Teams leaders can freely choose to whom they grant access, so discretion is assured.
• An IRC channel : #jagware on irc.worldnet.net, password : do_the_math (this is only to keep spambots from joining).
  Click here for a Web-based version (choose a nickname, then type /join #jagware password).

Well, this is the end, yes the end of the year !!! Another year spended on this great Atari machine called Jaguar.

Only one wish, be 2010 better than 2009 for this 64 bit console !!

Happy new year to all Jaguar fan all over the world !!


GT

Thorn, SSB, CiH and I are happy to announce the release of issue 2 of our webbased diskmag.

Though the focus is mostly on the Atari 16/32 we do have some jaguar related topics in the form of an e-jagfest party report.

Have fun reading.

http://lowresmag.wordpress.com/

I just wanted to wish you an Happy Xmas !!

Happy Xmas to all Jaguar Fans !!



GT

I want to do a big thanks to the



team, for sending freely a lot of CD of Do The Same

This team make a lot for the retro-gaming world, they organised A.C. party, R.G.C. Party, doing boxart for free games, .....

So a big THANKS to the RGC team.

Link : www.retro-gc.org
Forum link : www.retro-gc.net
Facebook account : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=149203349344

and a big thanks to Atardi for doing a donation to the association ( http://un.jeu.denfant.free.fr/test/index.html ), we will reserve surprise

GT Turbo

A long time ago, during an A.C. party, we meet Eric Chahi (Another World (Out of this world)) author, he allowed us to port this great game on Jaguar. Today SebRmv (Removers) send me a little demo running on Jaguar.

YES !!! Another World on Jaguar !! That's only a little demo, but now here comes screenshoots !!!


video

Enjoy !!


GT

Fredifredo do it !! Thanks for his work, now a CD version of new Reboot game called Beebris is available here


GT

A new section has been opened, for talking about homebrews. Homebrews done by Jagware members, by friends. Because Jagware is before all a board for Jaguar developpers, that like a gallery about all their creations, let's go to the Homebrews section


GT Turbo

The original Beebris was released in 1991 on the Atari ST as part of a mini-demo called "Apathetic Games" released by The Law of The Bad Brew Crew. The full source code for this is already available and can be found at the official D-Bug and Automation website.

Our 'tribute' version was done in roughly a week to celebrate not only Beebris turning 18 years of age, but also 'Tetris' celebrating it's 25th anniversary! We have enhanced the graphics in the game, and are now using the introduction music during gameplay, as was always intended by the original musician, Floyd. Also, for everyone's additional enjoyment and continuing fun, we have added a web-based high score system, which you can access from the links below this text.

And finally, to make things even nicer, we have included the full source code for our version, so you can compare it with the original ST code if you get really bored! At the very least, someone might find this useful.

We hope you all enjoy playing this game as much as we have whilst making it.

Grab it at our website now!

PS. Can one of the admins please change Mr Morden into Cyrano Jones? ;-)

Hi people !! Last Jagware news, please think to send your postal card for winning a full DTS game (Featuring CD with a great CD label and cover, a three langages manual (Thanks to the Retro Gaming Conenxion team) for all hardware things).

Another news : i have heard a little thing, Reboot (Jagware) will release a new game in few days !! Yes another game for our beloved 64 bit console !! What game ? I can't told anything about it, except that a 1 week game !! Just wait and see !!!!





GT

30 copies available !!!!

Since these forums are being visited at various hours by various persons from various countries, here is a system to make it fair for everyone...

* How to participate ?

You just have to send a postcard (a landscape of your region for example) to the following address:
Matthieu Barreteau
24, Allée de la prairie
49220 Montreuil on Maine
France

You have to specify your username as well as your forum (example: Matmook/Jagware or Matmook/Yaronet or Matmook/AtariAge), and maybe write a few words.
Only one postcard per person please!

You have 3 weeks to send your postcard.

* How will the winners be chosen ?

It is very simple, my children shall choose 10 postcards (so no adult pictures please !) from each of those 3 forums (Jagware, Yaronet and AtariAge). The winners will be contacted by private message to receive their copy of the game.

Postcards will be scanned and put on the "Do The Same" website.

Good luck!

The "Do The Same" team.

[Donate for children]

"Do The Same" team supports the French association "Un jeu d'enfant" (http://un.jeu.denfant.free.fr/test/index.html), which aims to provide video games and consoles to hospitalized children.

What ?! You still have some money after the non-purchase of Do The Same... no problem, donate :-) (do not forget to specify your real name, you never can tell).

For any transfer/payment, here is the banking address and phone number of the association:

Association Un jeu d'enfant
societe generale
banque 30003
guichet 01425
compte 00037283187
clé 83

COMPTE IBAN FR76 30003 01425 00037283187 83
BIC / SOGEFRPP

Don't hesitate to contact us for more information!

[RGC]

The RGC association (http://www.retro-gc.org) is responsible for the packaging of this CD (printing/burning/...) and the shipping costs.
Thanks to the RGC for allowing the distribution of this game!

[Thanks]
Thanks to everyone involved in the creation of this game :
* Code: Matmook
* Additional code : GT_Turbo
* Graphs: Bear
* Level creation : Fredifredo, Odie_One
* Music: Scrat, Clawz
* DSP Replay : SebRMV
* CD Creation : Fredifredo
* Cover Graphics : Pippin
* German Translation: Atari-Fan
* CD Packaging: RGC TEAM
* Creation of the ROM for Skunk: SebRMV and Matthias Domins's tools
* Online score system : based on Orion_'s one
* Beta-tester: Anneso, Atari-fan, Fredifredo, Doctor Clu, Krupkaj, Nonner242, Odie_One, PMData, Vimaster
* Last but not least, all the rest of the JAGWARE TEAM!

If you don't have an IRC client and can't/don't want to install one, you can stil join the Jagware chat through a web proxy.
Check the "What is Jagware ?" box at the top of this page for the details, and don't hesitate to join us

WAR ???? WHICH WAR ?

Once again, what is usually call the Jag scene have an episodic access of fever.

What is usually call a fair competition between developers in other scene is generally described as a rampant war here, and people involved in what should be a fair competition sometimes are trapped in this hypothetic war.

Jagware has been created to offer interested developers and artists a workspace where they can debate, share and work together. We offer public forums for debates, but also, for obvious reasons, private forums for team sharing during development phase.

Recently, Curt Vendel has posted his feeling about Jaguar scene, we fully agree with him, and we remember that Jagware was created because some of us had the same conclusions years ago.

We love to debate. We love to share with other.
We love when we are wrong and learn from other.
We love when we are right and convince other.
We also love to share what we discover with the community.
We love to disagree, but we always give other the respect they desserve.
But we dislike when discussions are useless and just lead to feed animosity.
We dislike rampant rumors, hypocrite attacks and personal griefs.
Some of us even prefer to leave a nice place if their presence is sufficient to light flame.

We love competition, we of course have egos and would like to be the best, but we love when other are better than us, because this is a source of motivation, not recrimination.
We have humour, maybe a specific sense of humour, we apologized and tried to let it under an imaginary red line, but we still love humour, and laughs at other people attempts.

We love to see new releases, every kind of release. If someone make a game, he deserve our respect.
We love freeware, we congrat people who choosed this hard way, and hope they will get enough feedback from the community.
We love shareware, we congrat people who choosed this hard way, and hope they will get enough feedback from the community.
We love commercial releases, we congrat people who choosed this hard way, and hope they will get enough feedback from the community.
We dont like piracy, pirates are a threat to Jaguar community. As a Jaguar fan, you already know you whould not encourage piracy. Please help Jaguar developers to fight piracy by reporting every authentified abuse.

We also love to make new releases, we love to work hard on our releases, our graphists love to spend hours and create new techniques, our musicians love to spend hours to create new music that correspond to the game. But being humans, they sometimes do not have enough time to graph and compose for every game we have in development, so we may use free to use stuff in our public domain releases, according to the licence of the asset. But if you are a Jaguar fan and want to participate into new games, as graphist or musician, don’t hesitate to contact us !

But as gamers, we reserve the right to like or not like new games, from Jagware members or other people. When a Jagware member express an opinion about a game, it is his own opinion, it does not involved other Jagware members. To extend this, every Jagware member has his own opinions on everything, there is no guru point of view to follow.

Jagware is open to everyone, here and in other places. There is no affiliation needed, if you need help, just ask, and if we can, we will be pleased to help you. We already have various informations and sources available on our forum (UART workaround, Lz77 depacker, graphical tutorials, …). If you want to help us on game development, just contact us, you will be welcome and get all the credits you deserve.

Atari as we all knew and loved it is dead years ago.
But Atari as we loved it is still vibrant in various scenes (2600/5200/7800/800/Lynx/ST), and there is no reason to keep the Jaguar scene away from this spirit.

We love the Jaguar, this is our only crime.

The IRC channel is currently being attacked by spambots. They can't be banned, because they use a lot of different hosts, and we don't want to ban anyone innocent by accident.

To keep them out, a password has been added. It is "do_the_math"
You can now join the channel by typing "/join #jagware password"

Sorry for the inconvenience.

EDIT : we had to change the password, it seems that the bots either "guessed" or brute-forced it.

A new Jaguar website is open :

Free Jaguar Project

Overlord (Administrator) write :

Our goal with the Free Jag Project is to open up the Atari Jaguar game system to the same levels of freedom enjoyed by the communities of most every other classing video gaming system. This includes the openness of the developers, the release of free games and utilities, and the ability to freely play ROM and CD images of the classic game releases for the Atari Jaguar while still respecting the ability of current commercial developers to keep their software as commercial-only products.

So we hope a good start in Jaguar community to this new website, you can access here !


GT Turbo