UPDATE: Ive found my backup of the disc, if anyone has SGI hardware and can get it running PLEASE contact me as soon as possible. the link is in the comments i was sent an email a few months back (from a friend) containing the original set of Demo's Created by SGI that where used to "Showcase" The up and coming ULTRA 64's (Nintendo 64) Graphical capabilities, the demo's that i know of where: a 3D shark demo showing the n64's water,Lighting and texture filtering effects A top-Gun Styled Flight sim that used DANGER ZONE as its background music, thats all i can remember at the moment, ive attempted to boot up the ISO in a SGI emulator using the needed specs, sadly no luck. And i sadly dont have acess to an INDIGO 2 nor an IMPACT workstation. As far as i know, im one of the only ones with a copy of it, everyone else ive contacted no longer have it. Ill DM anyone who thinks they can get it running, a link to download it. Hoping someone on here can get it up and running again. Edit: replies may take a while since im in the process of moving to a new house, sorry for any delays in advance
I havent seent this "demo" before, but thank god its on youtube Is your disc called : "Demos for IRIX 5.3 All Indigo2 IMPACT" ? Does it have a readme in the ISO ? Or do you have various ISOs from the following list ? Nekochan has a gigantic list of all released demos(?) tools...idk : @_@ http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/Media_Product_Numbers A youtube comment says you need a special LG DVD Drive...that can read any media in the world...like LG GDR-8082N or 8161B or 8162B or 8163B or 8164B. I guess you dumped it yourself, or your friend ? So for everyone else who havent seen this "old stuff"... Starts at 0:39 : And in this video from 2012 someone demonstrates the whole thing using Indigo2 Impact : And another one : Quite cool if you havent seen it before...like me... @_@
Loved those demos, I had only seen the Atlantis demo from the Ultra 64 reviews. It's really impressive how much technology improved in the brief period until the N64 was released.
Thanks a bunch jolly, ive seen your vids showing it off, oh and amazing work with thoes Xtreme builds.
Thanks, actually I have several SGI machines. The one I plan to run this on is a different system than the Indy where the Ultra64 board is installed; it is instead an Indigo2, which uses the MGRAS (Impact) graphics board set, what the demos had been built for.
i dont have that much experiance with SGI hardware besides my personal prototype 64 hardware, ive got 2 unfinished prototype boards, luckily they run perfectly with both JP retail and JP prototypes, along with the board came a Prototype controller, using the shell of the Ultra 64 controller and its parts (im guesing it was reused)
Excellent! I am a long, long time SGI enthusiast (since way before the N64), and this is the reason the N64 has always intrigued me...
from a collector, ive got the shell of an original U64 being sent, he's had it since 95, Plus saving up to eventualy get an INDIGO2, id love to own a working unit to add to my collecion of 64 hardware, next to my proto n64, my original mockup box, and a few other pieces of hardware
You should post a picture of the U64 when you get it. The other N64 hardware you mentioned sounds interesting too.
well i have the dev board now installed in the U64, tho im NOT going to power it on, it would be horrible if the thing was fried, and maby oneday ill show it off.
