The collected works of Raion-Fox - Page 2

That's an SGI design and Acronym1 is an SGI vendor. You could always drop him a line. I have a 13w3 failing that, but it's a rare model that would cost $35 because its DIP switchable between Sun, SGI and other modes - very rare. I have a special cable that was custom made so I don't need it, but still - its rare.

No, its not that, its a stubby gender changer with labels for the various configs (Sun, SGI and I think one other.) But knowing there's another I'll have to revise my price lol ^o^

commodorejohn wrote: Heh Layer count will actually be pretty much arbitrary, and sprites are just graphic objects blitted into the layers, so (minus performance considerations) there shouldn't be much of a limit on that. (Heck, you could even have multiple rotozoomer layers - say, a ground map and then a sky map with the same rotation but inverted scaling and a much slower parallax motion. Just need a little fog to hide the sharp-edged horizon and voila, instant skybox.) As for sound, it's still (mostly) in the planning stages, but I'm scheming up a combination subtractive/FM softsynth (plus some kind of wavetable support so at least sampled drums can be used.)

(Also: the SNES sound chip is actually strict wavetable with no proper filter at all, save for the bit that does reverb. What occasionally sounds like a lowpass filter is actually adjustably-weighted linear interpolation between samples, to smooth out the artifacts caused by its built-in sample-compression format.)

I see. Unfortunately that explanation re: the SNES sound chip is a little beyond my knowledge of music. All I know is that the way it runs makes things sound muted and stupid compared to how I prefer FM sound - I really like the way later FM systems were capable of switching voices on the fly. I like the YM2612 as well as the 2608 used in the PC 9801-86

commodorejohn wrote: In the right hands it can sound quite good (*cough* Chrono Trigger *cough*)

Oh certainly, I don't for a second discount the wonderful soundtracks on the SNES - but the fact remains that MOTHER 2's tracks carried over from MOTHER on the Famicom sound, brighter and more lively to me I guess.

commodorejohn wrote: ) Of course, FM has its own pitfalls (particularly the "everything sounds like rubber bands and farts" syndrome heard on too many DOS games with token-effort Sound Blaster support,) but so does anything.

Most of the DOS games I play are well passed the point of the SB16 - well into the AWE32 era and beyond.

Some soundtracks made in FM I think are stellar are Touhou 4 and 5 on PC-9821, especially the boss tracks for those, and the entirety of Herzog Zwei on the Genesis (I have three copies of the game I love it so much)

jan-jaap wrote: false

My goof, you're absolutely correct. I was thinking of the O2 for some reason.

Thanks for the prompt correction

They're not worth your time. Qualcomm's ARM offerings outwin them in speed and driver support.

itsvince725 wrote: I guess I still need another hard drive sled and possibly also an optical drive sled then. I'd really like to have an optical drive.

Wouldn't we all? Check mashek.com for these items, failing that, there's always sgidepot.co.uk. Ian's got pretty much anything I'd ever need SGI-wise but due to UK -> US shipment costs for big he's not my first choice for larger/heavier stuff (Not to knock him - packages always arrive fast, in good shape and so-on!)

Also, another option would be one of these:http://www.ebay.com/itm/282359180448

Although an Apple-branded drive isn't my taste its a good drive at a good price. You would just need a centronics -> 50-pin adapter (found cheaply on ebay, and I also have them) to be able to work it.

That's an external SCSI drive

Oh shit this one needs a CD caddy. I'll find another one on eBay that doesn't :/

Watching Carnival Phantasm on my day off.

I emailed Mashek about a base and screws for me. But I'm not in dire need of a base.

If I sell the O300 I'll have enough to start looking at getting a V12 for the Onyx 350, and getting another O350

It doesn't have graphics.

Classic I can say from experience letting go of stuff lying around in storage can be a hard but rewarding thing. Even if you don't make or lose money on them - you know you're letting go of stuff someone will put to use.

Oh my I am a decent cook as well if I do say so myself. I'll have to post some food pics here soon

Several of the Nekoware mirrors are down:

nekoware.de
flatrock.nl
nekoware.net
sgiweb.org

However we have a new mirror here:

ftp://ftp.sdf.org/pub/computers/sgi/

So I ask either nekonoko or someone with access to the site to change the respective mirror listings after contacting the maintainers of these mirrors and letting them know they're being delisted.

I plan to setup an ftp mirror myself at irix.pw, a domain I own.

That's tough bro.

It's not terrible to ship from Canada to the US. Pack the items well, you(Krokodil)'ll need to fill out the Canadian version of the postal service customs form, just put in the approx value, basic description of the contents and fill out the forms honestly. At least here in the US, postal workers are relatively up to date on the regulations and can help you fill the form out.

If you live on the west coast/mid-west of canada (i.e Calgary or Vancouver) it's gonna be expensive. But if you live close to Mississauga (the East coast Canadian-US postal area) it's going to be affordable for Vince to get it.

Really no big deal to ship internationally. If you're not comfortable shipping with Canada Post do you have FedEx there? FedEx is a bit easier to deal with internationally at a bit of a premium.

In th US they do. Call your local PO and ask.

If you're not getting serial output I wouldn't rule out the motherboard

Revival for obvious reasons.

I've been out of anime for around a year as I've lacked the time and I dealt with pretty severe depression, going to China and a lot of personal problems.

I recently picked up Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. Well done.

Also picked up some classics I never got see, Cowboy Bebop being one of them, another being Evangelion (Shocker, I know. I only saw Rebuild, and I actually like that better. Mari best girl!)

Nichijou... like Azumanga Daioh on LSD.

Side note, don't throw away old PSUs. Find someone who can repair them.

Holy shit. I'm sure some people here would be interested. Definitely post it for sale here, Amibay.com and VC Federation

I know paging doesn't work here Kumba. I was just hoping you'd encounter it eventually :p.

I was hoping you may be able to offer insight into Gentoo-hardened vs something like Qubes or comment on the Linux policy of burying broken shit under less-broke shit (ALSA being unable to handle multiple sound outputs due to blocking i/o and thus being assimilated by PolishAudio, hiding potential security issues in userspace behind namespaces and the like)

I wasn't referring to Gentoo specifically when I said burying potential issues. I was more referring to the consensus of morons at Redhat. Sorry for being unclear haha.

Don't bother with GTK3, it requires dbus. Focus on GTK2, QT, and other out of date software.

Post your patches here and someone will package them up and put them in Nekoware.

Irssi is another thing.

Foetz I can definitely package some stuff he posts if he puts make/configure patches up here. I'm down with doing nekoware packages now because I've figured out its too monumental to do something on the scale of nekoware on your own.

wechat sucks IMHO.

Weechat's issue for me is GPLv3. I'm avoiding that like the plague when possible. Compiler/binutils don't bother me much but I willingly switched to i3 when my chosen windowing system at the time adopted GPL3 for future releases. Is there a stylistic reason you don't like irssi, or is it related to interface, config, key commands etc?

As for everything else feel free to use the access to my server to host, as well.

Okay. Vim, pico or EMACS?

Don't throw away the work, put it up with MIPS-3 on it as MIPS3 is hard software to get nowadays.

Try NetBSD?

I'm on 8.1 Embedded Industry Pro and it works better than 10 or 8.1

FreeBSD is crapshoot on big endian power hardware

Holy thread resurrection Batman! 13 year old thread much?

Try the Misc forum next time.

Its a binary layer, as in when you write applications for IBM i or OS/400 you don't actually compile to the underlying CPU's code, afaik. Compilers produce a CPU independent intermediate code which the OS changes to PPC, x86 etc code as needed. It's a neat concept.

Hey guys,

So I've got my Acclaim Indy (not the Turok ones) and want to back it up. As I don't have any DAT drives, external disks that can work on the Indy or other ways to get files off it, I want to use an NFS share on my FreeBSD system kuran - since Kanna isn't quite ready to do the job and nor is anything else really.

So I set up an NFSv3 server on my FreeBSD backup laptop:

/etc/exports:




Reboot the laptop. The ip of the laptop will be known as 10.10.1.45 and the Indy will be 10.10.1.48

After getting the Indy's network routes setup, it can ping 10.10.1.45 and I can ping it from the FreeBSD laptop.

I went into the fstab and setup an nfs share:

10.10.1.45:/irix/acclaim /kuran nfs rw 0 0

rebooted, my share didn't mount. Tried mount:

mount 10.10.1.48:/irix/acclaim /kuran

access denied to 10.10.1.48
giving up on /kuran

I don't know how to troubleshoot the problem, any ideas?

Worst case, I'll wait until my SCSI CDROM arrives, but that may be a while.

I spent most of my morning and afternoon under my rust bucket Miata replacing the clutch master and slave cylinder and bleeding it. The car I bought for $2300 last summer, I've already replaced the following:

Radiator
Thermostat
Convertible top
Clutch Master/Slave
Four brake calipers
Battery
Air filter

Still needs an AC compressor, a new front bumper, a new front core support, and the rocker panels and trunk torn apart and de-rusted. When all's said and done and adding a hard top I'll have invested probably another 3-4k in the car.

I have a Blue '99. Nice ND.

I need A/C here in VA. Its too humid to not have A/C. If it were AZ or CO or MT, maybe, but not here