ThatGuyRaion
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Comment · 8 months ago
You're welcome :)
Comment · 8 months ago
Just in time. O2 RAM sticks are probably entering reproduction (but you didnt hear that from me :) )
Comment · 8 months ago
Wanted to ensure it was clear lol.
Comment · 8 months ago
It's a labor of love for me.
Comment · 8 months ago
Greetings HN,
As the current Nekonomicon steward, taking over the project from Elf, I finally added a "new section".
Let me explain
Nekochan.net was a famous SGI site that went down on May 21st 2018. Remember the day like it was yesterday. I got up, went to a restaurant to get some food and people start bombarding me while I'm eating.
Anyways, in 2019 Elf, a user of IRIXNet, decided to grab the forum posts off archive.org and reformat them as the "Nekonomicon Book of Notes"
In 2020 I manually (2104 images!) grabbed the original images and metadata off nekochan's archive.org and put it on Silicon Image.
Well, Silicon Image is getting migrated soon to a new project I built using Laravel. As part of this, I built a static site generator in python to rebuild this into a Nekonomicon book of illustrations. After 2-3 days of rapid prototyping, I got it up and running here:
http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/index.html
The tarball will be updated soon.
Future Nekonomicon updates might include:
1. Geoman and a few other community members ganked forum backups. I might be able to eventually merge and reconcile, but I suspect that will necessitate AI assistance.
2. The Nekochan.net blog. Mostly for nostalgia.
Anyways, enjoy the memory lane trip.
Comment · 8 months ago
Do not turn off environmental monitoring. That's for debugging only. That's how people are cooking the video cards. Please get your fuel /properly/ repaired by say weblacky on irixnet. The reason why? With env monitoring off, the system won't respond to overheating on the graphics card and it'll cook it alive. The fuel has notoriously bad airflow (air doesn't move right angles)
Comment · 8 months ago
SGIs that matter (MIPS, etc)
IRIX only supports about OpenGL 1.2. It does have a fragment shading extension though:
https://tech-pubs.net/reputable-archive/fragment_lighting.tx...
Comment · 8 months ago
"We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those with a voice."
Applies here. SGI hardware holds interest because "ooh pretty animations/GL". IBM is great stuff, but it's all workhorses.
Comment · 8 months ago
You could use the NVME driver to load the filesystem and boot the kernel diskless...
Comment · 8 months ago
Ummmm...
http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/ -- Nekochan backup
Comment · 8 months ago
Nay, the N64 is pretty unique hardware-wise. Conceptually it's vaguely similar to the O2, the RCP is an R4000 fixed function CPU with some extra graphics instructions IIRC.
Comment · 8 months ago
It runs like arse though.
I'm working on some OpenGL stuff at least.