Just want to add a little more to my points above:
1)Regarding the often cited lack of documentation avaiable to Jaguar coders, from atari regarding how best to use the Jaguar hardware and get coding etc, not eing given enough time to properly code, optimise etc:
David Brevik, who went onto code PC Diablo 1, 2, Hellgate London etc..talked of his time developing Genesis Super High Impact...
David: ' Back then when you made a game for the genesis or Super Nintendo, they just handed you the manual for the hardware and said Good Luck!-There were no development kits, nothing, you had to write your own assembler, make your own dev.kits...'
So hardly the best development enviroment and sounds NO different to that of the Jaguar enviroment.
He also talked of having to buy an expensive, 3rd party Genesis development kit and being told rather than the 3 months he had been told he ghad to code the title, Iguna now wanted it finished within a single month.
2)Jaguar 1st console to do 3D? as said earlier far, far from it, adding to the stock Genesis polygon 3D coding...
Dan Cuthbert (Argonaut) was doing Console polygon 3D initally on the ill-fated Konix Multi-system console, who's hardware he said lead to the Nintendo SFX chip for the SNES, but also wrote the 3D Demo on the Game Boy along with a 3D demo for the NES, which Argonaut took and showed Nintendo prior to getting the SNES FX Chip gig and he coded the gameboy Game X....
So if they could get the primitive GB and NES hardware doing (wireframe) 3D, i don't think it was too much to ask from developers to get to grips with flat shaded polygon 3D on the Jaguar.
Plus Lynx was doing Polyon 3D was it not with Hard Drivin and Steel Talons?
3)Speaking of which, this might be a UK based thing, but having grown up on a diet of solid 3D games on the lowly 520STFM:Carrier command, hunter, Midwinter, Cybercon 3, No second prize, Midwinter 2, Battle Command, Star Glider 2, Robocop 3 (DID) F-29 etc etc, i honestly did expect a lot more than simply higher polygon counts, more light sourcing etc from the custom chip packed, 64 bit Jaguar....
Edited by Lost Dragon, 30 May 2017 - 05:19 PM.