The collected works of nekonoko - Page 3

nicolas wrote: Posted the tardist on neko ftp site. to use this you will need the datafile
from http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~trandor/abuse/

and you should use esound SDL audio driver.
oh and the tardist do not select the software by default
so you have to custom install it sorry.

Whew, sorry I took so long getting around to this! I went ahead and repacked the tardist so the registered datafiles are a default yet still optional part of the package which makes it much easier to set up (plug and play now). I also included the source code as an optional install.

Full package here:

http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/downloads/abuse ... s4.tardist

nicolas wrote: to fix that sound problem you most use esound sdl driver.

try:
% setenv SDL_AUDIODRIVER esd

Ah cool! I added that tip to the post. Thanks!

squeen wrote: This is a seriously cool game.

I've been meaning to try the audio fix but wound up going to bed early last night.

It is a cool game though

somecodemonkey wrote:

// is NOT VALID C CODE!

not true it depends on how new the compiler is as the // commenting was added to ANSI C in the last standard in 1999 along with a few other bits a pieces such as variable lenght arrays and some stuff from C++

but if MIPSPRO is having a fit about the comments then best thing is to remove them

MIPSpro 7.3 and up handles these without a problem in my experience. If you're using 7.2 (which came out before C99) it's a valid issue.

I've read the method involves creating an EFS formatted hard disk partition of equal size to a CD and setting it up as a bootable IRIX volume, similar to this method:

http://www.sgiaddict.net/tech/efs_cds/

The above example unfortunately doesn't cover making the CD bootable since more partitions are needed for this ... the extact structure could probably be copied from an existing bootable CD and applied to the hard disk template. The trick with EFS CDs is that they are built exactly like a hard drive; same partition table and layout - this let older SGI gear deal with them (they were read like hard drive platters). Unfortunately this makes it extremely difficult to master as regular ISO CDs are not built this way. To further complicate matters, I believe the downloadable archives are missing some bits required to boot as well (the kernel image for one), so you'd need to set that up yourself on the bootable EFS hard drive partition.

The easiest way to boot from the downloadable archives is via netboot.

semi-fly wrote: Is there any freely available CAD software one could download for irix?

This might work under IRIX - haven't tried to build it though:

http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html

Good to know - I haven't been able to get 6.5.21 since my Developer Online account expired anyway. Guess that's a positive thing after all!

Well I'd heard about the patch, but I hadn't heard it would kill your Octane if you forgot to apply it beforehand Certainly something that can't be emphasized enough just to make certain everyone knows it can be dangerous.

That's amazing work - I seriously want one of those

squeen wrote: I jump started the web site, it's at http://iconbar.sourceforge.net/ . I included a couple of links back here. I hope that's alright with you Neko.

Also, I plan to continue announcing the major releases in this forum thread if nobody minds.

Don't mind at all - and I'll try and post a blog entry along with your new website as soon as I can - hopefully this afternoon/evening

vegac wrote: I took a screenshot of my iconbar for you so you can see...maybe it will give you some ideas...

http://www.kolrabi.com/iconbar.png

Notice the "garbage" behind the buddy list icon, the weirded out Nekochan icon, and the garbage behind the last icon there (buddy icon, name blurred for his protection heh) but the people on there are ok, it's just everything else that would be transparent isn't...

OT - just curious - I noticed lots of people blur out their buddy icons and contacts (I don't, heh) - why is that? Has anyone actually been IM spammed from someone trying to manually type in buddies off posted screenshots? :cat:

vegac wrote:

nekonoko wrote: OT - just curious - I noticed lots of people blur out their buddy icons and contacts (I don't, heh) - why is that? Has anyone actually been IM spammed from someone trying to manually type in buddies off posted screenshots? :cat:

I think of it more as a common courtesy and the fact that well, do I really want to admit talking to this guy?

Okay, fair enough

squeen wrote: I've got the tardist, but would like to hear from Timo or Neko if I should FTP it in.

That would be Timo's call - I wouldn't want to host one of his packages without permission.

I pulled the CVS down to give this a try today; works great! Only thing I noticed was that the border.sgi file was not installed after a gmake install - I had to move it manually to /usr/local/bin/

I'll put a new screenshot up with this running on the O2 ASAP

That's correct, use something like:

http://freeware.sgi.com/Dist/fw_intlfonts-1.2.tardist

... and make certain to tell your X server about them afterward as described here:

http://freeware.sgi.com/Installable/intlfonts-1.2.html

Enjoy! :cat:

dexter1 wrote: Lisa's patch was for lattice to run without texture.

Will we still be able to run with textures if desired with the upcoming tardist, or should we keep a TRAM enabled version around as well?

Great; just wanted to be certain as losing texture support completely wouldn't be ideal

Great news; I've posted this on the blog!

That's a good question. The only way I've worked around manual entry is to add the required lines to the mozilla and firebird startup scripts ...

andreas@rootprompt wrote: try to do it with cdrecord. Ain't there a fink package for it?

http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/cdrecord

About a month ago I upgraded my old Octane from MXE to V6. I had to boot from installation tools, feed in my overlays plus base IRIX CDs and then:

keep *
install hardware
go

Upon reboot everything was fine.

Yep, this is the infamous timing bug. My V8 does this too at those refresh rates. V10/V12 are apparently immune.

Since I use a flat panel I've been using 8bpp @ 59Hz.

Yes as far as I know it's just 1280x1024 that has the problem. 1280x1024@96Hz should also work if you have a monitor that supports it.

Oh, forgot to mention that dexter1 uploaded new versions of both these tardists and they are now in his contrib directory.

That is correct.

It's been moved to your contrib directory.

I apologize for the downtime - I just realized this occurred while you were uploading Qt. Had some major upgrades to the web server hardware this afternoon - plus after installing the second tower I decided to reinstall the memory modules to a more symmetrical configuration (512+128 on each tower).

I probably won't have to touch it for a while now though

whiter wrote: If I build inst packages for those, can I upload them somewhere on the nekochan server, or should I host them myself somewhere ? There will be loads more to come.

Sure, I can set up a contrib folder for you. The server has plenty of storage space.

Just a quick comment:



This works if /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/man/man1 already exist, which is probably the case on a system with a lot of self-compiled software already in place. In my case, I compiled and installed iconbar right after installing standard freeware.

The first line will happily copy the freshly compiled iconbar binary into a file called "bin" under /usr/local. This could be fixed by adding a slash after bin: /usr/local/bin/ - this will still generate an error about bin not existing but at least the iconbar binary wouldn't be parked in it's place.

The second line will bail with an error since /usr/local/man and /usr/local/man/man1 do not exist.

Many makefiles call a little script to check/create the install directories first - but maybe that's something to save for later

videobrat wrote: I found this in the Install notes for IRIX6.5.24/complementary_apps:

Ouch. $249 for an IRIX/AIX/Digital UNIX/HP-UX/Solaris SPARC license. $49 for Linux/Solaris Intel/FreeBSD/Mac OS X. Guess they go after the deep pockets.

They've also updated their mirrors page to include Nekochan:

http://freeware.sgi.com/mirrors.html

Are there any newer versions for IRIX past 6.5.51? I was planning on posting a note on the front page but version 6.5.83 appears to be Linux/Windows only ...