History of video games/Platforms/Atari Panther

History
The design of the Atari Panther was influenced by the Konix Multisystem.

The Atari Panther was supposed to release in 1991, but was ultimately scraped in favor of development on the Atari Jaguar. The decision to cancel the console was made just 6 months prior to launch.

A development system for the Atari Panther was produced, which shows significant investment from Atari in the concept.

Technology
The primary Panther CPU was a Motorola 68000 clocked at 16 megahertz. The Panther also used a 32-bit graphics processor clocked at 32 megahertz.

Audio was handled by an Ensoniq ES5505 OTIS sound processor clocked at 8 megahertz and with support for up to 32 channels of PCM audio.

External Resources

 * Atari Museum - Panther page with design documents.