SGI Ultra64 video

Here is a small video of the Ultra64 development kit running some games... enjoy!

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=RyE9PGTRirI

Jollyroger

 

Wow. Thanks for sharing!

 

very much appreciated

 

That's very nice to see! Thanks for taking the time to make the video

 

Awesome!
Thanks for sharing man!

 

thanks for sharing=)

I noticed that you're running mainly first-generation n64 titles. Would a game like Conker's Bad Fur Day run appropriately on the Indy+U64 board?

 

I am afraid the Conker's ROM is too large to fit into the U64 dev-board RAM (which emulates the cartridge ROM), which is limited to 128Mbit.
This is the reason I could only try running early games, their size is the main limitation.

Jollyroger

 

Hi,


Is it possible to have photos to compare similarities and differences between

architectures of SGI Ultra64 and Nintendo64?


Thanks

 

The main differences are :

a) on-board RAM vs Cart
b) GIO interface
c) joypad connectors

 

can you retrofit more than 128mbit of RAM then?

 

There are a number of photos of the hardware available on the net ;-)

 

given that the ROM loader tries to load the ROM regardless of its size, perhaps it is possible to fit larger RAM modules.
I guess it's up to the memory controller on the board, the GIO driver that allocates the virtual address space for the board RAM to be accessible by the Indy, and the two FPGAs that physically emulate the ROM using the DRAM modules on the board.

JR

 

Hi Gilga,
i have a hi-res scan of the u64 board on the YnT site (~50 MB):

http://www.yntproject.net/index.php?section=docs

 

Hi Kammedo,


Thank you very much

:thumbsup: