#irix — Public Fediverse posts
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What's this? The #VirtualOSmuseum includes #SGI #Irix? Ooh shiny! I didn't think there were any working emulators. Now downloading so I can pick it apart and see how it does it, and then replicate without the extra gigabytes of baggage. And then I shall install my favourite #compiler EVAR, #MIPSPro, which I affectionately call a complier, not a compiler, because it really led the field in whining about bad non-standard C.
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@flexion Nice!!
All I got is GIMP on my O2. 🙂
#SGI #IRIX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #screenshot #OS #UNIX #GIMP #PhotoShop
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@flexion Nice!!
All I got is GIMP on my O2. 🙂
#SGI #IRIX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #screenshot #OS #UNIX #GIMP #PhotoShop
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@flexion Nice!!
All I got is GIMP on my O2. 🙂
#SGI #IRIX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #screenshot #OS #UNIX #GIMP #PhotoShop
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@flexion Nice!!
All I got is GIMP on my O2. 🙂
#SGI #IRIX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #screenshot #OS #UNIX #GIMP #PhotoShop
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@flexion Nice!!
All I got is GIMP on my O2. 🙂
#SGI #IRIX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #screenshot #OS #UNIX #GIMP #PhotoShop
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator
Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖
Hey Retro Fans!
While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:
Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!
This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.
A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator
Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖
Hey Retro Fans!
While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:
Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!
This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.
A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator
Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖
Hey Retro Fans!
While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:
Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!
This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.
A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator
Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖
Hey Retro Fans!
While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:
Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!
This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.
A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator
Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖
Hey Retro Fans!
While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:
Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!
This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.
A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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GTA VC in widescreen, on SGI Tezro with dual head V12 💎 #irix
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#IRIX Message of the day:
[100%] Built target reVC
🌴 Vice City 🌴 -
Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)
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Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)
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Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)
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Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)
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Get ready to falsify! Build 'em up, knock 'em down. Dennis #Ritchie 's words stick in my brain: "Bon Appetit!" #unix #plan9 #usl #svr4 #solaris #osf1 #dynix #hpux #irix #sgi #ultrix #tru64 #sunos #bsdos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_UNIX-HATERS_Handbook (Linux was not seriously in the running at this snapshot in time.)
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #sgi #unix #netscape #navigator #irix
Catch of the Day: The Jurassic Park Workstation! 🦖🖥️
Hey Retro Fans!
Hold on to your UNIX manuals, because today our FrogFind radar detected an absolute Hollywood star in the frog pond. Between the usual handhelds and Windows PCs, this breathtaking identifier suddenly appeared:
Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on SGI IRIX!
For those who weren't in IT in the 90s: SGI stands for Silicon Graphics Inc. and IRIX was their proprietary UNIX operating system. SGI workstations (like the legendary Indigo2 or O2) were incredibly expensive, highly specialized graphics monsters. It was on exactly these machines that the dinosaurs for Jurassic Park, the liquid Terminator in T2, and even the hardware architecture for the Nintendo 64 were developed!
The fact that these Hollywood heavyweights came with their own specially customized version of the Netscape Navigator (the "C-SGI" at the end) straight from the manufacturer was standard back then. The fact that today, over 25 years later, a retro enthusiast boots up one of these UNIX legends, loads the IRIX OS, and surfs through our frog pond using the original SGI Netscape is retro computing at the absolute highest level.
Cheers to the Silicon Graphics workstations—may your MIPS processors calculate forever!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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I knew it was an #IRIX thing!! :D
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@screwlisp @rwxrwxrwx @praetor
> Er, who else do I need to tag here.
FWIW, I've mostly retracted from the #irix communit(y/ies) since nekoware went under, and haven't done that much in that area of late. But there's some folks active on the fediverse that do things a lot more interesting than anything I've done :) @flexion comes to mind.
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Well, fuck @blendernation to be the latest company to take techno-feudalist ai nazi-dollars i guess.
I suppose now is as good a time as any to throw all modern computers away and fire up the octane; revert back to 2.49 on #irix
Gotto put that v12 card to use somehow.
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RE: https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/116470639325353456
Una workstation IRIX con un port open source di Stunt Car Racer in funzione. ❤️
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There is a modern recreation of the visualizer, but is a pretty old software nowday and I don't know if is still patched and developed.
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In the 90's if you got a computer it would had been a PC-DOS or a home computer (Amiga or such), Unix outside some places like universities was rare to find.
And speaking of "dinosaurs"... the underlying system is truly Unix (or better, the Irix variant): what is seen it's a SGI workstation running the filesystem navigator FSN. ;)
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Super Mario now runs on big endian #IRIX. Still needs some fine tuning, but already playable!
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Litterae Finis, text mode demo by Trauma. Now available for #IRIX
Download here: https://github.com/flexion-unity/litterae_finis-IRIX/releasesAnd you can now select between playback in terminal console or rendered in a window.
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#IRIX Cannonball OutRun, now available for download for your SGI workstation. Statically linked, no dependencies.
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Found an interesting story about the origin of the SGI logo while reading IRIS Universe, Spring 1987 issue..
Puzzle artist Scott Kim designed the Silicon Graphics logo entirely using JAM, a pre-PostScript language from Xerox. He started with a cube, looped a continuous tube around its vertices, rounded the corners, then rotated it so the 2D projection reads as both a hexagonal flower and a 3D object.
@flexion have you seen this?
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IRIX 3dfx Voodoo driver and glide2x IRIX port
https://sdz-mods.com/index.php/2026/03/23/irix-3dfx-voodoo-driver-glide2x-irix-port/
#HackerNews #IRIX #3dfx #Voodoo #driver #and #glide2x #IRIX #port #technology #gaming #retrocomputing #graphics #drivers
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Putting out a #DigiPres request:
Anyone out there in #RetroComputing fedi have, or know where I could get, #RealPlayer 5, G2, 7, or 8 for #Solaris or #IRIX? Or any other *NIX ports aside from Linux that might be out there?
Edit: Got it! Fedi is awesome!
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Wipeout on #IRIX 💎
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WipeOut finally starts and renders on #IRIX Had to eliminate shaders, fix some memory alignment and other big endian issues. No textures yet. Still WIP.
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Another day, another 30 year old computer getting in on the IPv6 action. This time it's an SGI O2 running IRIX 6.5.
It only took me a few hours to setup a network installation server for the software and remember how to use
instand find the rightsystunebut hey, now we're golden. :sgi:(Install
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I got bored of trying to make AppleTalk sing and dance on Windows NT and 2000 so I switched to an OS with a good native implementation: IRIX. :sgi:
#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh #SiliconGraphics #SGI #IRIX #AppleTalk #AUNIXSystemIKnowThis -
Can't wait to see how #Commodore will implement the new Age Verification Requirement in the the PET, VIC-20, C64, C128 and Amiga Workbench.
Same for #Plan9 , #OpenBSD , #IRIX , SerenityOS , FreeDOS , #ReactOS , OS2 , #HaikuOS , Minix3 , RISCOS , AROS , CPM , Solaris and KolibriOS...
The answer: They won't because it's ridiculous.
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And we now have Commander Keen on #IRIX Goodbye Galaxy!!!
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The majesty of 4dwm.
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Now we're getting to the good part of #irix
After the just unacceptably and inexplicably bad install process.
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