IRIX and Software

a perfect ElectroPaint port

mdl
From Tokyo
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 4:09 a.m.
Wrote the following at May 5, 2014, 10:54 a.m...
by yours truly. enjoy!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7699597
apes
smj
From Berkeley, CA, USA, NA, Earth, Sol
Who joined Nov. 12, 2007, 7:54 p.m.
Wrote the following at May 5, 2014, 2:09 p.m...
Kudos! And neat that this announcement caught the attention of i_am_ralpht, who claims to have ported EP to OpenGL while at SGI. Has he contacted you outside of the comments/replies?
Then? :IRIS3130: ... Now? :O3x02L: :A3504L: - :A3502L: :1600SW: +MLA :Fuel: :Octane2: :Octane: :Indigo2IMP: ... Other: DEC :BA213: :BA123: Sun , DG AViiON , NeXT :Cube:
ClassicHasClass
From Sunny So Cal
Who joined July 25, 2012, 7:12 p.m.
Wrote the following at May 5, 2014, 3:51 p.m...
Having not experienced ElectroPaint in the flesh (I should go put it on the Fuel now), how close is StonerView, since that has both Mac PPC and Classic versions?
smit happens.

:Fuel: bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy: indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP: purplehaze , R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from Image bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...
recondas
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Wrote the following at May 5, 2014, 5:52 p.m...
ClassicHasClass wrote: Having not experienced ElectroPaint in the flesh (I should go put it on the Fuel now)
It's probably already on your Fuel - try running "ep" at the command line (if you like that, try "bongo"). Reasonably complete installs usually include ep, it should also show up a one of the screen saver selections (the screen saver version of bongo is Octahedra).
ClassicHasClass wrote: how close is StonerView, since that has both Mac PPC and Classic versions?
Can't answer that (mostly because it'd be a CDiH before I install anything with stoner in the name). :D
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Hakimoto
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From Kabul, Afghanistan, Asia
Who joined March 30, 2003, 4:29 a.m.
Wrote the following at May 5, 2014, 10:40 p.m...
mdl, nice, nice work. I just realised, however, that we're expected to compile this ourselves. I didn't see that coming. Any chance for a Windows binary?
miod
From Orgerus (France)
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Wrote the following at May 5, 2014, 10:59 p.m...
ClassicHasClass wrote: Having not experienced ElectroPaint in the flesh (I should go put it on the Fuel now), how close is StonerView, since that has both Mac PPC and Classic versions?

You should ask the question the other way around: how close is Stonerview to ElectroPaint.

Having been running both for a long time, I consider the `look and feel' of Stonerview very close to EP. There has been really hard work trying to mimic the behaviour of EP, especially when the tiles switch from a single "ribbon" to 4 or 5 "columns". The colour transitions in Stonerview are slightly off, though. They lack a certain je ne sais quoi only EP has.

Of course this is 100% subjective opinion...
:Indigo: R4000 :Indigo: R4000 :Indigo: R4000 :Indigo2: R4400 :Indigo2IMP: R4400 :Indigo2: R8000 :Indigo2IMP: R10000 :Indy: R4000PC :Indy: R4000SC :Indy: R4600 :Indy: R5000SC :O2: R5000 :O2: RM7000 :Octane: 2xR10000 :Octane: R12000 :O200: 2xR12000 :O200: - :O200: 2x2xR10000 :Fuel: R16000 :O3x0: 4xR16000 :A350:
among more than 150 machines : Apollo, Data General, Digital, HP, IBM, MIPS before SGI , Motorola, NeXT, SGI, Solbourne, Sun...
ClassicHasClass
From Sunny So Cal
Who joined July 25, 2012, 7:12 p.m.
Wrote the following at May 6, 2014, 6:57 a.m...
It's probably already on your Fuel - try running "ep" at the command line (if you like that, try "bongo").


Bongo like candy!

I'll try it tonight after the parts have come in for the server.
smit happens.

:Fuel: bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy: indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP: purplehaze , R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from Image bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...
mdl
From Tokyo
Who joined Jan. 23, 2003, 4:09 a.m.
Wrote the following at May 7, 2014, 5:33 a.m...
smj wrote: Kudos! And neat that this announcement caught the attention of i_am_ralpht, who claims to have ported EP to OpenGL while at SGI. Has he contacted you outside of the comments/replies?

He hasn't, but I should see if I can get in contact. It would be interesting to talk to him.

Hakimoto wrote: mdl, nice, nice work. I just realised, however, that we're expected to compile this ourselves. I didn't see that coming. Any chance for a Windows binary?

I regret not pointing this out explicitly, because it's a really poorly publicized GitHub feature that even I didn't know about until I made this release--I did supply a binary! Hit ElectroPortis.zip here. :)
apes
Hakimoto
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From Kabul, Afghanistan, Asia
Who joined March 30, 2003, 4:29 a.m.
Wrote the following at May 8, 2014, 12:20 a.m...
mdl wrote: I regret not pointing this out explicitly, because it's a really poorly publicized GitHub feature that even I didn't know about until I made this release--I did supply a binary! Hit ElectroPortis.zip here. :)


Haha! You the man! :D