Has anyone seen the 'Ultra 64' card for the Silicon Graphics Indy workstation? I gather its super rare, and speaking of Rare, I remember reading an Edge magazine article where they visited Rare in the UK and they had one on nearly every desk. The Indy is a now ancient piece of Silicon Graphics hardware. It was essentially a more powerful N64 though and used in the creation of such classics as Toy Story. Since then it has been replaced by a number of more powerful machines such as the Indigo2, Octane, Octane2, Fuel and the current top MIPS powered SGI workstation, the beautiful Tezro. Anyway, I own a lot of SGI hardware but I don't have anything prior to the Octane. While on an SGI forum I found a couple of people who have the Ultra64 card. It's a board that sits inside the tiny Indy and has all the connectors for an N64 on the back, including the AV-Out and controllers. I've not seen it mentioned anywhere here so far and wondered if anyone had one or if anyone knew where I could get one too. The Mrs won't be pleased to see a new SGI but since the Indy isn't worth much more than us$20 these days, it shouldn't be too bad. Depends on the cost of the Ultra64 board though I guess! Cheers Antnee
the Ultra 64 isn't mentioned much, but we all know about it (well most of us). I ve migled with an indy that had one inside, and ran IRIX + all the needed files. That board was extremely expensive for what it was back in the day, and although I m no authority on this one, I d say you re looking at a 1K+ price. ASSEMbler would surely know more about it than me or most of us, i think.
Acclaim (just like many other Dev Studio's) used shed loads of 'em. ...Kev sold a several here a year back, IIRC and the price's were a lot less than a 1K a piece.
sorry for misleading. My "price-range" was old. I remember it going for so much back in 1999-2000 , when I first had interest in getting one. Thanks Fred
Np, I think they went for summat nearer the $100 mark, tho the peeps on here that bought some would know doubt be more precise. ...All I remember was, was that they were 'plentiful' and 'cheap' at the time.
assembler sold one a long time ago via ebay but took the auction down must be 2 years or more never seen one again since then as board alone maybe they float more often around in an on old indy these days
I've only ever seen one and that's not in someone I knows Indy but on G Lernerz' SGI Stuff website (here) where he seems to have a huge collection of SGI gear. As said, I don't know how useful it would be to someone now, but I would've loved to have been working at Rare at the time when they had one on every desk!
Two of them. A broken and a working one (in a complede Indy setup with os 2.0J). They are in fact extremely rare. I had to look for them for about 4 years to get two. Im still missing the Joypad adapter.
