The collected works of vishnu - Page 37

foetz wrote:

BlueSkull wrote: Also i need compilers and everything..., if you know where can i find it please tell me.

no, the irix development environment was commercial hence according to our rules there's not gonna be any talk about "getting" it.

Well, the GNU compilers make a compelling alternative...

The header files and whatnot? Didn't that used to be a freely available download so people could use the GNU compilers if they didn't want to pay for a MIPSPro license? Cause I'm pretty sure it was...

That's great but really, what's the likelihood of us getting it to compile with MIPSPro? Wasn't the last IRIX release of Toonz about 20 years ago?

I'll look at my CDs tonight, I'm pretty sure the development environment CDs were freely available all the way up to the 7.4 release of MIPSPro....

Well of course now that techpubs has been cut off at the knees I can't find the page where they listed the compiler execution environment as being freely available, but IIRC one of the things they did after 6.5.21 was include it as a standard part of the IRIX installation media. For anyone running versions prior to that the 7.3 version looks to be one of the many mirrored at the wayback machine.

foetz wrote:

vishnu wrote: Wasn't the last IRIX release of Toonz about 20 years ago?

something like that and it's said to be better as well viewtopic.php?p=7385553#p7385553

Ah! So they ported it to NT using "N u Tcracker" no doubt! I heard some really good things and some really bad things about N u Tcracker over the years, anyone ever use it? We didn't because we never ported our Unix stuff to NT, only to Linux. Link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKS_Toolkit

Wow! Really nice work guys, you are truly ar teests...

You can download any and all versions of the SunPCI software here:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/compact-pci-card-193027.html

The X session doesn't go through the serial port it goes over IP (through the ethernet cable), the author's just mentioning the serial port for the sake of completeness, because it's the only way you can access the PROM without having a monitor attached...

Huh! You might want to try contacting Mr. Bill, he said at one point he would host those drivers on his site. Contact info is at mrbill.net...

I think they both look good, but then I've never been noted for my aesthetic sensibilities...

Is that a hack of the MWM iconbox widget? After maxx stopped working on Slackware I went back to MWM from the 2.1.30 distribution, been using it ever since. A Luddite, I know...

japes wrote: I hope the community continues to support the site and it's able to stay vibrant and free of ads.

Blipverts!

Max Headroom yes but it was an episode from the series not the movie. Amanda Pays in Max Headroom, holy hot...

The entire ep is on the tubes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wN9NXL2f8s

Skied 10 days in a row at A-Basin in Summit County, Colorado, got back last night. Legs feel like lead but was also a good time.

Try calling any of the vendors of those programs you mentioned and asking to buy an IRIX version. They will say no. To that I say, get what you can, where you can and how you can! (ducks)

Funny I've never gotten a "your Windows is all messed up according to our webserver" call but I get at least a half dozen "this is the IRS and we are filing a lawsuit against you" calls every week...

There are a ton of threads hereabout on the 600MHz O2 mod, I never paid much attention because I've never owned an O2 and my Octane2 already has 2 600MHz CPUs. That said, a 600MHz O2 would run Maya 6.5 Unlimited very nicely.

Intuition wrote:

vishnu wrote: There are a ton of threads hereabout on the 600MHz O2 mod, I never paid much attention because I've never owned an O2 and my Octane2 already has 2 600MHz CPUs. That said, a 600MHz O2 would run Maya 6.5 Unlimited very nicely.

Its like I have to have one just cause someone made a super O2.

Well, though I'm sure you've seen this already I'll paste it in anyway, just for funzies: http://www.futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/o2cpumod.html

Eric's a busy guy and the license he's got from SGI doesn't permit him to enlist a lot of help. Or, perhaps more to the point, any help. Sadly, Maxx tends to fall through the cracks as a result.

Almost makes you long for the days when the only organizations that could afford that much IRIX power were the movie studios that were making hundred million dollar blockbusters...

josehill wrote:

vishnu wrote: Almost makes you long for the days when the only organizations that could afford that much IRIX power were the movie studios that were making hundred million dollar blockbusters...

Don't forget the aircraft manufacturers, mining companies, drug companies, Big Pharma, and auto manufacturers! Oh, and the government labs and weather services!

There, fixed that for ya!

Oh, and Big Oil too...

josehill wrote:

vishnu wrote: There, fixed that for ya!

Hey, I resemble that remark!

The answer is just one page back, but I'll post it here anyway:

http://license.sidefx.com/get_nc_license.php

The version 8.2 license is said to work for all versions of 6.

Dodoid wrote:

uunix wrote: This is all so wrong.. has anyone seen Stephen Kings Pet Sematary ?

Haven't seen it, but I'm guessing you're not fond of the idea of an IID looking GUI on Linux? Do you consider it disrespectful to IRIX and SGI? I know we all dearly love IRIX, me included, but wouldn't applying one of IRIX's best features (IID) to Linux make it more to your liking?

uunix is just kidding, go watch the movie, it's about the negative consequences that result from bringing things back from the dead. "Now I want to play with yoooooooou... "

Shiunbird wrote: ...it says file not found, and I get the error back from bash....

Whenever I've experienced this mysterious phenomenon it turned out to be a library incompatibility; the libraries that Eric dynamically linked xlistscrns against don't match the libraries on your system.

opcode wrote: I installed it on my Devuan build on my MacPro 3,1. Really weird, everytime I try to launch anything in the /opt/MaXX/bin32 directory, it says "file not found". Maybe it has been a long day of BS at work and my brain isn't working....

See my reply five messages above...

opcode wrote: Ahh Thanks Vishnu Wasn't MaXXX working on a new build? Did he give those files out for testing?

Indeed he did say he was working on a new build, and then he promptly disappeared. Again...

surrealdeal wrote:

foetz wrote:

Geoman wrote: Moderators: perhaps this can be a sticky thread.

indeed, moved it to the sales section and stuck it.
thanks for the nice guide surrealdeal!

huh. now I kind-of feel like i'm interfering with free-trade. oh well.

I guess I can maintain this thread sort-of like an FAQ, if anyone else has some pro-tips on shipping.

If this isn't in the wiki yet it needs to be! Also, some input from mopar would be nice; the genius packaging he engineered to send me two Onyx4s would easily have survived World War III, I would have taken some pix but I was too excited to dig the goodies out, thanks mopar!

armanox wrote:

vishnu wrote:

opcode wrote: Ahh Thanks Vishnu Wasn't MaXXX working on a new build? Did he give those files out for testing?

Indeed he did say he was working on a new build, and then he promptly disappeared. Again...

I saw a post out of MaXX Interactive Desktop on Facebook recently - so assuming that he's running that page it isn't 100% dead after all.

Huh! Well you could knock me over with a compression connector...

Eric, I have a couple decades experience with C, C++ and Motif and would be happy to help. Presumably you have the source code to Viewkit as well? Are you using, or did SGI use RapidApp/BXPro for their development? I have BXPro 5-something on my Linux box and on my SGIs, and RapidApp on my SGIs...

maxxi.desktop wrote: That would be awesome! ViewKit is sadly one of those great technology that felt into a black hole when SGI went chap-13 and loose interest in its desktop technologies I only have binaries from a BXPro version... I am using ViewKlass for MaXX and it does pretty much anything I need it to do. I could tell you more offline

Please send me your contact details via pm

cheers

ICS has the Viewkit source code, presumably they could still be lobbied into selling a binary that would work with one of the MaXX Desktop target distributions, here's a link to their rather bare-bones Viewkit page:

http://motif.ics.com/products/viewkit

The binary I got from them 15 years ago no longer works with any recent Linux. I've never used Viewklass but if you're happy with it I'm sure it's fine.

Regardless of any of that, PM sent!

Intuition wrote: So. If I download the Houdini hosted here I can get a license from side effects since the 8.x lic works for it?

Supposedly! Give it a try and post back if it works. Or if it doesn't...

Wow, nice! Or, as the Val Kilmer character said to the Mark Kamiyama character in Real Genius, "Ick, the ice turned out so great! "

I tossed a few more frogskins into the kitty, let's keep the homefires burning!

Wow wow wow!

I wonder if it's worth trying to port smartmontools to IRIX...

jimmer wrote: ...scouring pad pop screen

We always called 'em "popper stoppers."

I remember the days when 64 bit SPARC (and MIPS) made everything Intel did look silly. Man! Good times...

Link is still open guys, toss a little Christmas cheer into the bucket! Can't remember what Pete said was the yearly cost for the forum uplink but I know it was a lot more than the 500USD that's currently been raised...