The collected works of nekonoko - Page 20

Pontus wrote: Here is my contribution, the PDP-8/e.

Also, I was wondering if I could use these icons on my own site? It's a great way to illustrate your collection.

Thanks, I've added it to the board. I don't personally have a problem with your using the icons elsewhere as long as the creators have no objections.

See viewtopic.php?f=7&t=16719893 amongst others ... (Nekoware FAQ Q1.0, on the download page ).

I'm on a Personal IRIS kick these days - nice specimen there

I've attached the version I archived; not sure if it is the most recent.

Couple of recent updates; upped RAM to 20GB and replaced the 4870 with a HD5870:

Also started messing around with the Final Fantasy XIV beta in Windows 7 x64 Ultimate (via Bootcamp); my character standing in the adventurer's guild:

I'm having some fun with it. The interface definitely takes some getting used to though, especially coming from WoW or Aion. I spent a few hours last night completing the Gridania starting quest chain which was entertaining - pays out a lot of gil too I'll probably mess around with it some more this weekend.

Oh, and my character is Arzefina Tydeine on the Wutai world server. I'll probably keep the character name and appearance when it goes live.

I played FFXI way back before the WoW launch (2003-2004); had a Mithra named Koyori with kind of an orange bowl cut. I can't find any screenshots though.

It performs well for me, but it does seem to rely on an extremely fast graphics card like a HD5870 or GTX 480. It also works much better with a gamepad rather than keyboard/mouse.

I've been playing around with a few different classes and completed some leves; nothing in depth as of yet. I figure it won't do much good to go hog wild until the 22nd

Here's a shot of the HD5870 installed in the Mac Pro. I still have the GTX480 I posted earlier; if the Mac drivers improve I'm certainly open to reinstalling it. At the moment, the only existent Fermi Mac drivers are the ones leaked (and subsequently pulled) by Nvidia back in June. They offer only a fraction of the performance they should.

The HD5870 is solid and speedy under both Mac OS X and Windows 7 so no worries either way

I also cloned over my boot drive to a 2TB WD Caviar Black WD2001FASS which should up the performance a bit. Not quite a Velociraptor, but reviews do compare favorably.

Yep, I noticed that when I was swapping drives around - quite a bit heavier

Got the FFXIV release yesterday; wound up changing my server to Melmond and character name to Mitty Fortin. Looks the same though.

I also picked up a Microsoft XBox 360 wireless controller for Windows (comes with a USB transmitter and standard XBox 360 controller). The game is a lot easier to use with it.

Minor update; got a DM5 in recently:



Haven't done much yet except connect the cables and confirm it shows up in gfxinfo.

What really makes the device for me are apps that take advantage of the unique control interface, particularly music apps (NLogSynth Pro, miniSynth Pro, Korg iElectribe, MorphWiz, etc.) Keyboard centric apps aren't nearly as fun to use though tolerable for light usage (Pages, Numbers, iSSH, etc.)

Hopefully developers will release more synths as time goes on - tweaking knobs and sliders on the touch surface is just fantastic.

Here's kind of a neat video showing off some of the above music apps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q4GZq7TEqk

I'm playing with a VBOB with DM5 on my Tezro at the moment. I haven't had an opportunity to do much yet, but I was at least able to get gfxinfo to show the DM5 as attached via the DCD:



I have a DM3 installed in the Tezro as well but don't have the proper cables to connect to the VBOB.

For myself, just for kicks. My Tezro came with DM3/DCD pre-installed so a VBOB was kind of the natural next step.

jwhat wrote: Neko I got LVDS cables from Nekochaner "Richtom1" for $45 each, so if you need cables I believe he still has some for VBOB or are you talking about coax for video?

I need the LVDS cables. I'll check with him, thanks much!

jwhat wrote: I have seen sgi specific cables advertised for DCD to DM5 connection, but was assuming I could just go to local computer shop and purchase standard DVI-I cables.

Is this a safe assumption?

I believe so. I picked up a couple 1m DVI-I cables from a wholesale outfit for $6 each; gfxinfo is able to see the DM5 with them.

jwhat wrote: Thanks again, I hope I have some success on the weekend.

Great, let us know how it goes! I'll try and get some LVDS cables and work that end as well.

Just to echo the sentiments -- please take care of your personal priorities first before worrying about Nekochan. We'll likely still be here when life settles back down

@diegel - if you're willing to host a Nekoware mirror, let me know and I'll add it to the page. Thanks much!

Any pics of the SGC? I've never run across one of those.

Ah, thanks! Looks a lot like the DMediaPro VBOB from the front.

jwhat wrote: I have also been to shop to get 2 extra DVI cables but when I try to get output to monitor via vbob, I get no signal... so I have moved cable back over to monitor directly.

I had to do the same. I wasn't sure if that was due to my LCD monitor not wanting to sync to the VBOB signal or something else.

jwhat wrote: Did you try this?

/usr/gfx/dmconf -destination active \
-vpro format=1920x1154_30f \
-dm5 format=1080I_5994

A bit different as I have a SGI F180 connected at the moment (1280x1024) so had the vpro at 1280x1024 and dm5 format at 720.

I've added these in. Thanks much!

Wow, nice machine! Hopefully you can get the graphics sorted

Yeah, my Tezro was missing its IO9 completely. I had to pull one from a linked O350 (it was redundant in that config fortunately).

unixmuseum wrote: Hi Neko, long time no talk... I'm curious about a few things regarding the MP: how's the 5870 compared to the 4870? I have an Apple 512MB 4870 in my MP1,1...

Since posting the above I actually bought an official HD 5870 from Apple (mostly so I could use my mini DisplayPort equipped LED display without an adapter), but the performance is otherwise identical to a flashed card. I've found it to be much faster than the 4870 for gaming and general 3D usage in both Mac OS and Windows. The extra VRAM also helps tremendously in things like Second Life that really load up on textures.

unixmuseum wrote: BTW, I read a little about the AHCI thing, what benefit is there in doing so (and yes, my Win7 drive is a 150GB Velociraptor )? My understanding is that the drives are treated as IDE without AHCI, but in what sense? Performance-wise the Windows experience is a disapointing 5-something, which shocked me for a 10,000RPM drive, that might be it, uh?

The biggest benefit to the AHCI hack is that it enables Windows to detect and utilize the two auxiliary SATA ports on the motherboard. This is necessary if adding something like a second SATA optical drive (such as blu-ray) - without AHCI enabled the drive won't be detected through Windows at all.

Unfortunately the 5-score is to be expected; Microsoft has apparently made it so the Windows 7 Experience awards a maximum of 5 to any drive that is not an SSD.

Yep, 5.9 is what I have as well on my standard hard drive. Now that you have the extra ports enabled, you could also grab one of OWC's eSATA extenders to route those extra ports to the rear of the machine:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20 ... y/MPQXES2/

Unfortunately I no longer have the flashed 5870; I sold it so the swap to the Apple 5870 was nearly at no-cost. The only spare cards I have right now are a Mac-flashed 4870/1GB and a PC-BIOS GTX 280 (was in my Hackintosh before replacing with a GTX 480).