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   ||  By: Patrick and Carl Forhan
\__//  pforhan@cs.truman.edu, forhan@midas.millcomm.com
            Buried Treasure: A Look at the Jaguar Voice Modem
                        Forward by Carl Forhan
                       JVM FAQ by Patrick Forhan
My brother and I found an opportunity to acquire some Jaguar Voice
Modems in 1997.  We've mostly kept this knowledge to ourselves, but
have now decided to share the info we've learned about this extremely
rare unreleased peripheral.  To that end, Patrick has assembled the
unofficial Jaguar Voice Modem FAQ, included below.
Atari seemed to have the right idea in mind with the Lynx and Jaguar,
by enabling networking capabilities for their game consoles.  In the
Jag's case, however, Atari eventually ignored networking beyond the
buggy DOOM, and (apparently) only Ultra Vortek included VM support.
The VM does away with the common complaints around console networking
-- too much trouble to lug around consoles and TVs, takes too much
space, etc.  It also makes you wonder how much work it would've taken
to make the Jag a cheap internet machine (not that that did a lot for
Saturn sales, mind you).
I've enjoyed the VM so far. Pat and I tried it on many evenings when
he was living in Rochester, and most of our connections were a blast.
I also have tried to get the modem to work with other games rumored to
have VM support, such as Iron Soldier II, but no success yet.
So enjoy this FAQ on the elusive but most definitely existent Jaguar
Voice Modem.
                 Atari Jaguar Voice Modem (JVM) FAQ
                           Authored by:
                Patrick Forhan (pforhan@cs.truman.edu)
                     Latest version located at:
            http://cs-sun1.truman.edu/~pforhan/jvmfaq.html
We've all heard about it... some of us have dreamed about it. But
we've always been told to think as if it doesn't exist. What is it?
The Jaguar Voice Modem!
... "They are laughing at me, not with me." -Bart Simpson
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