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tux
From Garland Texas, USA
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 2:10 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Origin 300, 2x500MHz R14K, 1GB, 1x73GB + 1x300GB at May 21, 2012, 5 p.m...

Adrenaline wrote: wow what a killer deal you got, congrats!

No kidding - that was a honey of a deal! Good on you, man.

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 70 notes

Wrote on the subject of equinox at June 10, 2012, 5:31 a.m...

vishnu wrote:

Darn decent of ya! :mrgreen:

Did he say anything about when he might start considering releasing Equinox as source? :?:

Not exactly when, but he does make it sound like it will happen soon (whatever "soon" means to him). Here's a quote from his FAQs page:

Quote:

FAQs:
Q: I get many questions regarding if and when EQUINOX-3D will go open source.
A: It is mostly open source already. About 80% of the source code is included in the package and I'm planning to make it buildable soon.

http://equinox3d.com/Licensing.html

I hope he's serious, since the IRIX version is still at 7.45 while the current release is 9.3.4.

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
From Garland Texas, USA
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 2:10 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Cool (open source) software you would like to see ported... at June 10, 2012, 8:08 a.m...

If possible, I would like to see Cube, Cube2:Sauerbraten or AssaultCube ported to Irix. They're very good open source 3D FPS games in the tradition of Quake and Quake2. Of the three, Cube is the simplest and more suitable for lower end hardware. A quote from the Cube webpage:

Cube is the original game that started it all. Though it has been surpassed in almost every way by Cube 2, it is a game in its own right. Most importantly, it comes with over 100 (!) maps, most of which are not available in Cube 2, with extensive single and multi player content.

Cube is also smaller in every way, in download, in hardware requirements (runs well on older video cards!), and in source code (the absolutely tiny code base is a very easy start for those wishing to experiment).

It also has some unique engine features such as the high precision dynamic occlusion culling, and its heighfield based level format.

Some Cube images:

Home pages:
http://cubeengine.com/
http://sauerbraten.org/
http://assault.cubers.net/

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 70 notes

Wrote on the subject of equinox at June 11, 2012, 1:56 p.m...

smj wrote:

I did get an update, he has the Octane up and running and started work on the port. But he's discovered that over the interval while he was missing an IRIX machine that he "started using a lot of new compiler features" -- which means that this has turned into a bit of a code review/clean-up.

But the take-away is that he's working on it, which is super. Just remember this isn't his day job - no deadlines, no target dates.

Thanks for the info. I've been playing with Equinox on my Octane and it's pretty cool! I'd love to have a more up-to-date version.

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
From Garland Texas, USA
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 2:10 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Repair horror stories? at July 15, 2012, 4:40 p.m...

We had a transformer explode at the adjacent power substation where I work. This occurred, of course, while we were in the process of replacing the batteries on most of our UPS. Technicians switched us over to the secondary transformer and had power back up shortly, but we had to spend the rest of the day and part of the next day replacing damaged equipment, restoring from backup tapes and replacing drives that wouldn't spin up again for some reason. When all was said and done, servers restored, networks operational, the technicians began to replace the primary (blown) transformer, but instead of pulling the fuse of the blown transformer, they mistakenly pulled the fuse to to the secondary one and took us down hard and with out UPS backup again.

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
From Garland Texas, USA
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 2:10 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of Cool (open source) software you would like to see ported... at Sept. 18, 2012, 4:02 p.m...

canavan wrote: cube is here:
http://canavan.de/neko/neko_cube-2005-08-29.tardist
it may need some of those:
http://canavan.de/neko/neko_sdl_mixer-1.2.12.tardist
http://canavan.de/neko/neko_sdl_image-1.2.12.tardist
http://canavan.de/neko/neko_sdl_ttf-2.0.11.tardist
http://canavan.de/neko/neko_sdl_net-1.2.8.tardist

Thanks, Canavan.

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 68 notes

Wrote on the subject of Indy rides again (a new member appears) at Sept. 20, 2012, 3:36 p.m...

ClassicHasClass wrote:

Quote:

Be careful, you might need a PROM update to be able to use an R4600SC in your Indy if its PROM is too old.

Er, yes. Good thing it's actually getting a R4 4 00SC. :oops:

Quote:

just put this excellent hardware to good use.

Yes indeed. I'll probably look at getting some of the excellent Nekoware stuff on it next. Although my daily driver will still be the Power Macs , it'll be good to have another decent workstation, and I'll probably start saving my pennies for an Octane .

Nice to have another Mac enthusiast aboard. I actually started on a nextstation and old PowerPC Macs running Apple's MkLinux OS (hence my tux avatar with a "cube" head and NeXT shadow). I like my nextstation mono and my 68k Macs, but my favorite and still daily driver is a Frankenmac Performa 6300 shell with a psu from a 6360 and a 300 MHz logic board from a 6500. I have to say I've gotten really hooked on MIPS based SGIs, though. They're becoming an addiction and I'm saving my pennies for a DMedia Pro breakout box / Tezro combo.

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 70 notes

Wrote on the subject of myMac at Sept. 22, 2012, 5:07 a.m...

ClassicHasClass wrote:

Right now the last of my 68K "UniMacs" is thule, a long-lived Macintosh IIci, which has run NetBSD since 1999 almost continuously. It is still in operation and does internal DNS and AppleTalk filesharing. It works fine and I have no reason to scrap it, so it just stays humming along in the server room in my house.

Though I recently got a Q800 and chipped it to 40MHz, which makes it really nice in A/UX ...

You're lucky it's still plugging along - my IIci is stingray and it gave up the ghost. I want to keep it because It is complete (even has rubber feet), has the apple cache card and looks mint since I Retr0brited it. I've recapped it with tantalum and it now powers up, but I immediately get chimes of death and no video output. I've also had no luck securing a working logic board

The other 68k UniMac I have is yet another "FrankenMac", a Quadra 700 named Wombat with a Centris 650 logic board which has:
a) the r151 resistor removed and a 1.2k Ohm r152 smd soldered in (the Centris now thinks it's a Quadra 650),
b) been chipped to run at 33 Mhz,
c) an added cooling fan on the cpu heatsink.

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 70 notes

Wrote on the subject of myMac at Sept. 22, 2012, 5:38 a.m...

ClassicHasClass wrote:

So why an LC (Performa) 630, particularly?

I have to confess that it is not one of my especially favourite Macs (there are worse ones, but there are many better ones).

They were "road apples", but I love the compact case much more than the later 6400/6500 towers. To me those towers looked pale and bloated, like beluga whales.

I've tossed the logic board from my 6300 and swapped in the logic board from a 6500. Great improvement in looks and speed, IMHO, though you give up some expandability.

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 70 notes

Wrote on the subject of 3d Modeller and renderer at Sept. 29, 2012, 5:08 a.m...

sgienthu wrote:

Hi BSDero!

Did you find MegaPOV for Irix? Could you share the link?

Gracias!

I was wondering about that too. What I found was a generic Unix source version at the MegaPOV site:
http://megapov.inetart.net/download.html

Has anyone tried to compile the MegaPOV code for IRIX? Got Binaries?
I found this comment in the INSTALL file:

Code:

  ================
  
  3. Compatibility
  
  ================
  
  This source distribution of POV-Ray for UNIX has been reported to compile
  
  successfully on different platforms:
  
  * Mips SGI IRIX 6.5 with GCC 3.2.1 (g++ 3.2.1 @ mips-sgi-irix6.5)
  
  using the n32 ABI (32 bit)
  
  * Mips SGI IRIX 6.5 with the MIPSpro C/C++ compiler version 7.4
  
  (CC 7.4 @ mips-sgi-irix6.5) using the n32 ABI

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 70 notes

Wrote on the subject of New arrival: Power Mac G4 at Oct. 27, 2012, 6:29 a.m...

ItsMeOnly wrote:

...anyway: two and a half hours of work, and this is the result:

Wow, nice work. I never had a G4, but it sounds sweet.

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 68 notes

Wrote on the subject of Life beyond SGI... at Dec. 9, 2012, 4:39 a.m...

Super nice Triumph. I'm currently restoring a 1965/6 Sunbeam Alpine, albeit very slowly (I've had it since the early 90s). Needs fresh paint and a total engine rebuild after 188,000 miles - hasn't run in 4-5 years. Same model as pictured below but with both soft and removable hard tops. Good handling car and lots of fun to drive until the engine died.

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 68 notes

Wrote on the subject of Life beyond SGI... at Dec. 14, 2012, 2:58 p.m...

smj wrote:

Seeing all those DVDs reminds me that I was stopped a few discs into my boxed set of Danger Man / Secret Agent, starring Patrick McGoohan. I should restart that...

I'm sure your Sunbeam Alpine will be just as nice when you get it running again, tux. This summer I found a Porsche mechanic who makes house calls, and he got my 914/6 running again. If I ever figure out what I want to do about the knackered gearbox, I might actually start to make progress next year...

Thanks for the kind word of encouragement, smj. Got to love that 914/6 - a real wicked road-magnet. In my slalom and autocross days in my alpine, I once got once my @ss handed to me by an 914/6. That car was wickedly fast around the pylons - no one even got close to his times. Take care of yours, it's a gem.

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 70 notes

Wrote on the subject of SGI Fuel L1 usb port question at March 2, 2013, 5:35 p.m...

Hello, all.
I'm trying to salvage a non-booting 500/600MHz fuel for a young/kid sgi-enthusiast. I don't know why this fuel's motherboard is missing the L1 serial db9 connector just below the second heatsink, but it's just not there. I figure seeing the L1's diagnostic messages would be helpful. Is there a way to connect this fuel's rear-panel L1 usb type-b port to my working fuel's usb type-a port? I've looked at my /etc/uucp/Devices file and don't see any usb entries, but I do have ttyus N type device files in the /dev directory. Would it be feasible to connect the two fuels using a usb a-to-b adapter cable, add usb entries to the /etc/uucp/Devices file and try something like:
cu -l /dev/ttyus1.
Any help would be appreciated.

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 1:10 p.m.
and authored 70 notes

Wrote on the subject of Any Kindom of Loathing players on here? at May 3, 2013, 3:48 p.m...

duck wrote:

Recently I felt a unified background for my two-monitor desk setup (one sgi, one windows mounted on a newstar desk mount) might be nice, and have under the last couple of weeks been twiddling around in Maya.

Perhaps someone here would be interested: http://duck.at.shangtai.net/files/unified-bg/

If you like, I can make all the source material available.

Awesome work, duck! Thanks for the wallpaper.

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:Fuel:

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
From Garland Texas, USA
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 2:10 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of What SUN hardware do we have? at Nov. 21, 2016, 5:44 p.m...

Hi,
Just scored a Sparcstation 5 with two OS's; disk0 - Solaris 8 and disk1 - NeXTSTEP 3.3. Disk 0 is set as the default boot disk but I can boot to NeXTSTEP by typing boot disk1 at the ok prompt. NVRAM battery is dead and I have to set the NVRAM values at the ok prompt before booting if I want to have proper network connectivity. There are some minor nicks/scratches on the top from where the monitor sat but not bad at all for only a $20 investment.

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
:Indigo2IMP:

Iris - R10k 195 MHz, Max Impact, 512 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

tux
From Garland Texas, USA
Who joined Oct. 15, 2011, 2:10 p.m.

Wrote on the subject of What SUN hardware do we have? at Nov. 25, 2016, 3:42 p.m...

johnnym wrote:

tux wrote: [...] NVRAM battery is dead and I have to set the NVRAM values at the ok prompt before booting if I want to have proper network connectivity. [...]

I've created an expect script which does the reprogramming automatically , which could allow to get along without exchanging the battery. You could give it a try. As I could only test it on a SPARCstation 20 so far, I'd be interested if it also runs on a SPARCstation 5 out of the box.

Thanks johnnym, I'll give it a try.
Tux

asterix - R16K 700 MHz, V10, 2 GByte ram
:Octane2:

speedracer - Dual R14k 600 MHz, V12, 2 GByte ram
:O2:

moosehead - R12k 400 MHz, 768 MByte ram
:O2:

Ox - R5k 300 MHz, 224 MByte ram
:Indy:

ryoko - R5k 180 MHz, 128 MByte ram
:Indigo2IMP:

Iris - R10k 195 MHz, Max Impact, 512 MByte ram
[ -] stingray - Macintosh IIci

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