The collected works of mr_ripley

mr_ripley
From UK
Who joined April 12, 2003, 5:05 a.m.
Wrote on the subject of OpenGL versus DirectX at April 19, 2004, 3:20 a.m...
From my experience I've always preffered openGL. Partly because of it's heritage but mostly because of it's elegant design.

I dunno if you have ever tried to program using Direct3D but let me teel you it's unesseceraly difficult. Even getting a simple triangle on the screen can be difficult. In the end I gave up trying to learn D3D and moved to OpenGL, and boy am I glad I did. I had a simple Asteroids clone up and running within a few days, admitidly with the help of Glut.
mr_ripley
From UK
Who joined April 12, 2003, 5:05 a.m.
Wrote on the subject of SGI freeware has been restarted at May 25, 2004, 5:40 a.m...
edefault wrote: The message in a bottle is: IRIX for the desktop is not dead, even if there were no life signs for a long time. .


Oh how I wish that were true. It's taken SGI the best part of a year to throw together this rather sad update to it's freeware collection. I thought at the very least we would see the addition of Gimp-2 and the latest version of python and perhaps Firefox 0.8. If there's a message here at all it's that SGI could not give a fiddlers fart about IRIX or it's user base.
mr_ripley
From UK
Who joined April 12, 2003, 5:05 a.m.
Wrote on the subject of Teleffect is just too cool! at June 3, 2004, 5:04 a.m...
This is exactly what I've been looking for. I was going to buy a KVM switch tommorow but maybe I'll give this a try instead.

btw. I take it, it just runs under windows and IRIX, i.e no Linux support?
mr_ripley
From UK
Who joined April 12, 2003, 5:05 a.m.
Wrote on the subject of Hey...a few questions...=/ at July 25, 2004, 12:48 p.m...
DaemonDraxx wrote: I just like to play around with old hardware. I'm kinda famous in some parts for that kinda thing. ;) Anyway, thanks...I'll consider this OS. I've noticed that some people here like Irix as their main OS of choice, and I've only seen Irix in action once, so that's kinda frustrating. I wanna see what the new 6.5.xx has to offer. :) Right now I'm just playing around with WinNT6 and a few other OSs like PHLAK, and that's not very fun right now. So SGI's Octane2 is a good box to start off with? I'll probably find one on eBay for cheap then. Too bad there's no Irix-Unix emulator or anything...I'll just have to stick with old crap like BSD and Knoppix for now. :roll: Wasn't the XFS disk format designed for Irix? Or was that for something else? I know professionals still use that file system today. >.>'


You havn't really stated if you want to do some productive work using IRIX, i.e 3D modelling-rendering, programming-compiing, etc. If you merely want to mess around with the OS and get the general feel for IRIX why not just buy an old Indigo2? You can pick them up for pennies off of ebay and the R10k-Impact versions run IRIX 6.5 very well.