The collected works of Geoman - Page 6

Now this is a brilliant essay on 90ies technology and software. Thank you!
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:Octane2: :-D
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Now that's cool - I'm going to try it out right now.

"553 Permission denied" so I guess it has to be copied to /beta, first ..
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Well done ! You put a lot of effort into this !

In the beginning of the tour I had to find out how to get out of this cart in front of the skull-entrance, but then it went smoothly.
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you could contact these guys before scrapping
http://www.computermuseum-muenchen.de/
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Touched a heatsink of Octane's PSU (w/o fan and handle attached obviously) while powered on some years ago.
Got defiblillated without medical indication. Don't do this.
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:Octane2: 2xR12000 400MHz, 4GB RAM, V12
SGI - the legend will never die!!
https://archive.org/details/cdromsoftware?and%5B%5D=SGI&sort=-publicdate&page=2

Now this is commercial software. But on archive.org ...

Mods: Feel free to delete this posting, but my guess it's a legal offering.

Cheers
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thank you !
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vishnu wrote: The best parts of Irix, in particular the SMP code, are now in Linux. And, in theory anyway Eric Masson has the blessing of SGI to to port the Irix interactive desktop to Linux. So, all you Irix loving Linux haters, pppppttttttffffffhhhhh! :twisted:


very true
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Now this are great news! :D

If I saw some kinde of donation-button, I would be encouraged to donate ;)

I really want to see this project to succeed :)
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Mekton is on "Silicon Graphics General & Platform Demos [1-of-2]"

Should be running great on that Indy (but is unforunately incompatible to VPro-based SGIs).
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Interesting. But I already have a dual 64-bit-MIPS-machine.
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Octane2

And why isn't there an R18.000 out there already?
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ClassicHasClass wrote: Nice look!


indeed !
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deltaflyer wrote: Hi everyone,
It's great to see some VRML development and VRML back in action. Back in the mid 90s I was involved in a project using VRML as an interface to an object oriented database. I hadn't encountered it since.
Out of interest, would an Onyx with a reality engine 2 board set be able to view this, or would that kit be too long in the tooth?
thanks,

Stu

RE2 will handle this without a problem.
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I wish they never stopped making PC graphics cards. Sigh ...

But what did Ed McCracken say in 1997?

"Some people think that you can add a graphics card to a PC and get the
power of a Silicon Graphics workstation," said Edward R. McCracken,
chairman and CEO of the Mountain View, California-based computer systems
manufacturer. "You can strap a rocket onto a basset hound, and you still
have a dog with a rocket on its back." And, going to an automitive
metaphor, he added, "You can put a roof rack on a Pinto and it's not a
Range Rover."


http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/4340.html

The rest is history. Or nVidia and AMD as you could say.
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Version 2 is great !
Not far away from my own IRIX-Desktop. I like the clean window-edges.
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Beautiful Fuel in great shape !
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I knew I know the "superhero guy" on the right:

https://www.spec.org/gwpg/pastissues/Jul00/opc.static/opcview.htm

He is the "Advanced Visualizer Viewset (AWadvs-04)" viewset from viewperf 6.1.2:

https://www.spec.org/gwpg/pastissues/Jul00/opc.static/awadvs.htm
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So today was Octane-Day.

I let run nekosync and installed Axene. But that is what I get:

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Octane2 6% XAllWrite.mips-irix-6.5
WARNING - No $AXENE_LIB nor $XALLWRITE_LIB environment variable defined !
Enter the $XALLWRITE_LIB environment variable or nothing to exit:
FATAL ERROR - Set a valid $AXENE_LIB or $XALLWRITE_LIB environment variable before restarting this programme.
Octane2 7% Xclamation.mips-irix-6.5
WARNING - No $AXENE_LIB nor $XCLAMATION_LIB environment variable defined !
Enter the $XCLAMATION_LIB environment variable or nothing to exit:
FATAL ERROR - Set a valid $AXENE_LIB or $XCLAMATION_LIB environment variable before restarting this programme.
Octane2 8% XQuad.mips-irix-6.5
WARNING - No $AXENE_LIB nor $XQUAD_LIB environment variable defined !
Enter the $XQUAD_LIB environment variable or nothing to exit:
FATAL ERROR - Set a valid $AXENE_LIB or $XQUAD_LIB environment variable before restarting this programme.


Is there a script to set these variables?
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now this is cool ! I never seen this kind of config before.
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I think it's not impossible to gnumake that ;-)
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Very well written - a nice read! Thank you for sharing!
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Moderators: perhaps this can be a sticky thread.
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ianj wrote: Where do you get it? The project website points to a Sourceforge page with no files available for "Downloads."


http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=16729754&start=120#p7393697
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segfault wrote: Slightly off-topic: What steps would you need to go through (specifically with SGI's intellectual property) to clone the IRIX Interactive Desktop? And if it were cloned, which toolkit would you want to see it using? Would you want an exact copy or a themeable environment (default theme would be an exact copy) that would allow for a more modern look?


Now it is HP's intellectual property... which won't make things easier I fear.
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I had to log out to see and be able to click the "heart"-button on the forum main page.
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You Sir rock!
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bjames wrote: I see the download is still available.. but would'nt you need a serial number or licensing key to enter?


I just installed the windows version, because I have my ThinkPad on my lap, and I need a license indeed.
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Please do. This cancer started in late summer of 2016. Rude insults from new members coming out from nowhere.
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https://plus.google.com/u/0/+silicongraphics

With quite some nostalgia on it.
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It's somehow tragic, that now they do a brilliant fan-service for the community, SGI is probably going to disappear soon. :cry:
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Interesting! The company still exists. https://www.dalim.com/

One could ask them per mail if they still have any copyright claim on or if it can be considered as freeware.
But I think nobody is working there 15 years later and the current staff has no idea about it.

Oh I see: "Twist" is still sold by them, so you would have to mothball the software. Or delete it.
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A pristine machine.

She needs 2 upgrades though: 1 TRAM Mezzanine for SE and additional 512mb RAM ;-)
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There are lots of guides of successful fan mods. I can recommend them for lower end machines like R5K O2s.

But in Octane you need much dynamic pressure from this very single fan, because it is responsible for cooling the PSU, the mainbaord and (together with the HDD compartment fan) the XIO slots alone on its own. (And it sucks that there is no kind failure warning buzzer etc implemented...)

So I recommend using a high powered fan if you want to replace it. Then, if you found one, you want to make a bypass capacitor if it does not work:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=16728392&hilit=fan

So finally I'm keeping my Cherokees as they are, because the stock fan is not that much louder anyway...
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It is a disease - this is so bloated. The browser as an OS.

Yeay - lets heat the atmosphere with Ryzen and Core i7.
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So I just learned, that the company Night Dive Studios recently remake of Turok, which seems to be fairly accurate to the original, with GFX (OpenGL 2.0), sound and music. So they either have the source code, or really did a good job in re-engineering.
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