/vr/ - Retro Games

Thats all i got for now. Figured id post pics. Cant find a way to open it though.

Erase the hard drive and install Windows on it

>>4836365
Haha, classic.

This thing, I guess?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxLa6P6exc

>>4836375
OP seems to have the cost reduced version mentioned at the 2 minute mark.

>>4836336
Yes, they were. You are very lucky to find that and it is quite valuable. Don't erase anything because even if it was not used for /vr/ work it likely still has data that someone somewhere would be interested in. They were used in movie and television production.

>>4836375
That is pretty cool to be quite honest with you. Now I wanna see if I can try out that exact same version of IRIX in a virtual machine.

>>4836336
>>4836337
you're fucking kidding me...Pls explain the context, I want the full story

>>4836336
yes backup the hdd files
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk_JjfeChQA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3AW2dDXx1I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEy_ybKWsg

>>4836432
A collector died so I got his stuff.

>>4836458
That's wut I luv about collectors.
>pretends they take care of things
>dies
>smart family knows where trash belongs

>>4836432
I just found it at the garbage dump with the other computer shit. Its also where i get all my retro gaming stuff because CL is super dead in my area.

>>4836494
You're one lucky motherfucker, see if the computer runs, buy the AC cables if you don't have them, a unit like this could sell well above 200$ I think

>>4836494
What's CL? And what general area are you talking about?

>>4836523
Craigs List

>>4836523
Craigslist

Craig Slist

Hi I'm Craig and those are mine. If you could please give them back? Thank you.

>for sale one SG Indy including hard drive only rained on twice

>>4836365
No!

>>4836398
This

It might have source code/data/assets from some N64 project.

There was youtube video awhile back where some guy purchased a bunch of old SGI workstations. I think he found source code from Turok and maybe other stuff like motion capture data. These things might also be of (monetary) value (to someone).

Though, I have no idea what legal restrictions may apply to such data.

>>4836365
Thanks for the advice, ill post my results on reddit!

>>4836609
>finders keepers

Thankfully the internet isn't the place for legal restrictions.

>>4836623
Your probably right. If it was simply released on the internet.

I meant legal restrictions trying to sell it to bidders. That might be more complicated.

>>4836595
>>for sale one SG Indy including hard drive only rained on twice

kek.

>>4836797
I see you've been taking notes hehe

>>4836336
>>4836337
>Indy R5k
Words cannot express how FUCKING JELLY I am right now.

>>4836375
Oh no not this nigger

>>4836336
how is it that garbage dump in my area never contains (interesting) electronics and only shitty alarm clock at best ?

>>4836595
That wouldn't really be a big deal unless it was powered on while wet. You'd be surprised what most electronics can survive.

>Then again you'd be surprised just how little shitty quality electronics can survive.

>>4837952
Would I? Probably the machine will boot but I'd put good odds on the hard drive being unrecoverable.

>find SGI workstation in the trash

where the fuck do you live? this has to be in san mateo or something.

>>4836336
The N64 devkit has a separate mezzanine board inside with a whole N64 on it, this thing is likely a bogstandard Indy workstation with nothing special installed on it.

>>4837972
>Would I?
No doubt. Nearly every day here you announce that you're surprised by the simplest things. This could just be another area you're not the worlds expert on despite having skimmed a wikipedia page.

>>4836336
>>4836337
Holy shit

>>4838726
just filter that retard like i did and the board because way more enjoyable

>>4838726
Okay well I'm sure OP will keep us updated on the contents of the hard drive in that Indy. Can't wait.

>>4838907
i need power cables for it, 1 for the unit and 1 for the screen. i also want to check the area where i found it for more shit.

>>4838030
east coast, actually.
which surprised me, since this shit was always west coast.

>>4838054
maybe, only way to see is to turn it on and be disappointed =)

>>4838054
>with nothing special installed on it.
Pretty much anything these were used for is going to be interesting to look at.

Fuck the workstation. What the fuck is in the hard drive?

>>4841378
>Fuck the age rules
FTFYK

>>4836336
Check out nekochan.net , it's Silicon Graphics Indy, early 3d workstation and it's really cool. It's running IRIX, a unix operating system made by yours truly, Silicon Graphics.
DO NOT THROW IT AWAY. It's damn precious.

>>4838907
If he's lucky it could have Nichimen Graphics N-world - a precursor to Nichimen Graphic Mirai. N-world was used in lot of early PS1 games and of course N64 too. It's a 3d animation package and really good for low poly stuff.
It could also carry PowerAnimator (precursor to Maya) and some other stuff.
SGI machines are cool, I had O2 and Octane and was collecting old software lot of people havne't even heard of.
Just google Nichimen N-world and you'll get better idea.
Unofrtunately they require probably a dongle and license server so he can't probably run them. And if he also needs a special cable for connecting it to monitor, not sure if he has it or not...

>>4841838
>It's damn precious.
You know, it's really not. It's a painfully outdated piece of hardware that, while fantastic in its time, serves no appreciable use at all in 2018. Like, none. The only reason they command the prices they do is because there's a fairly pathetic collector's market, mostly comprised of larping children with scorching cases of retrofetishism, who are obsessed with the notion of owning "an authentic vintage eunuchs workstation" despite the fact that the day of the Unix workstation has been gone for ages. The workloads these machines handled have been entirely supplanted by x86 machines running either Linux or one of the other gorillion Unices still available.

Additionally, the chances that OP's unit had any involvement in game development are slim to none. These machines were predominantly used in other industries.

>>4843523
>Linux
inb4 the interjection

>>4843523
Pretty sure some one found one of these and it had the source code of turok and they made the PC HD edition

>>4845548
I wanted to add that yeah it's unlikely to have much on it but you never really know until you turn it on and start digging.

>>4836494
>go dumpster diving
>find working retro stuff
America is amazing, where I live I would just catch toxoplasmosis.

>>4845796
... on a good day

>>4845548
I thought the guy who found the source code got it from a huge lot of Acclaim workstations

>>4843523
This post is what an actual, medically diagnosed autistic person would write. I mean that in the neutral sense. They can't understand why someone would want something beyond any functional use.

>>4844272
>>4843523

Just install IRIX.

>>4847542
This.

>>4847502
What are you going to do with it exactly? Set it on a desk a look at it?

>>4847502
>i'm one of the larping children he was talking about and that hurt my feefees so u have the tism
>REEEEEE

>>4844272
gnufags are a cancer

>>4843523
Keep your self-hating bullshit to yourself.

>>4847502
There's literally no reason to get an SGI, unless your really want to spin a bunch of dumb 3D models around for no reason, except for maybe collecting, but even then it's generally expensive and you're basically just left with a heavy ass paperweight you can't do much of anything with. At least with an Old DOS/Windows 9x PC or Old Mac you can play a couple games on it the way they were meant to be played, with an SGI, you're mostly just limited to the copy of doom it came with and a bunch of dumb unix games.

>>4848951
>>>/v/

>>4848808
>projecting
no u

>>4848245
t. steve kike balmer

>>4848951
Stop being obtuse.

>>4843523
>all that assmad
wew lad. It must really suck to be so jelly of people who can afford to play with cool old shit.

>>4848958
>Not wasting money on a loud paper weight that doesn't do anything of value anymore is /v/
Even as a guy who appreciates SGI shit, that stuff is pretty much just pure waste to have around unless you have severe autism of some kind or if you get lucky and get it from a movie studio or game developer.

>>4851673
brainlet

>>4851686
I know you are, but what am I?

>>4841838
>Check out nekochan.net
Nekochan is history. The owner panicked over some bullshit European privacy laws and killed the site, making SGI support a much scarcer thing.

>>4843523
>>It's damn precious.
>You know, it's really not
The Indy was the most bare bones SGI workstation, pretty basic compared to something like an Indigo or Octane (or an Origin rack).

>>4843523
>It's a painfully outdated piece of hardware that, while fantastic in its time, serves no appreciable use at all in 2018. Like, none.
If you can think for more than 10 seconds about this you can come up with a half dozen reasons why it could be useful.

>documenting the history of computing
>inspiration for future designs
>use for understanding N64 emulation, or even to make N64 homebrew
>use as a period-correct prop in a television show or movie set in the 90s
>as a form of personal entertainment, the joy of restoration is its own reward

But you knew all of that. You just want to shitpost.

>>4851810
That sucks, it had some pretty great battlestation pictures

>>4851871
>>documenting the history of computing
Not really useful considering we have loads of resources and decent ammounts of information on SGI workstations
>>inspiration for future designs
How? SGIs were fucking huge and people don't really want huge ass gay colored computers, and even then there's a lot of cases that probably fit that niche
>>use for understanding N64 emulation, or even to make N64 homebrew
I'll give you that, but even then, you would be up ass creek doing so as you would not get any support for N64 dev
>>use as a period-correct prop in a television show or movie set in the 90s
Maybe, but even then it's basically a dumb paperweight and it's just better to make a replica

>>4852014
>people don't really want huge ass gay colored computers
Instead, they want huge ass gay windowed black boxes festooned with enough leds (fans lit up even) to be confused for the Vegas strip. Not much of an improvement.

>>4851673
>Even as a guy who's samefagging
You're not fooling anyone jellyboi

>>4852319
Why the hell would I be jealous over people who have massive paperweights they literally have no idea how to use, besides for spinning 3D models and playing the shareware copy of doom that came with it?

>>4852917
Could be any one of a number of reasons. Your assmad is palpable.

>>4853321
>still bothering to respond to some guy shit talking your hobby

>OP finds old low end sgi
>/vr/ thinks that it was used for muh n64 gaymes
kek
Anyway, nice find OP, you can sell it if you don't need it.

>>4853471
>f-fuck you!

>>4853621
No way of knowing until he reads the hard drive.

>>4854065
N64 development requires special hardware expansion that's pretty much few and far between, and if the system is from the Garbage, then chances are it was never used for such a thing.

>>4854130
but what's on the hard drive tho

>>4854143
We don't know, could be boring stuff or stuff that's probably locked away because most of the productive software requires hardware dongles

>>4853471
>not milking the lolcow

>ITT: some faggot uses the phrase "larping children" in a shitpost. Actual larping children got asshurt about it and go on a samefagging spree.
Do I have it right?

>>4856024
Correct. You're a faggot and you used it and you shitposted. Now you're on a samefagging spree. I'll take your word for it that you're also an actual larping child.

>>4851690
a garbage man

>>4848951
This is a board for retro enthusiasts, it's ok that you're not interested, but you don't have to go on a paragraph tear about how useless it is, just go to another thread and talk about what interests you.

stop shitposting to stir up replies.

>>4854585
won't know until you read it

>>4856178
Yeah, I'm not the guy who posted the crap that hurt your feelings, kiddo. It's just fairly obvious what post set you off and why.

>>4848951
What am I doing in /vr/? : The post.

And the samefagging continues.

lel

>thread about SGI
>it's NEET Incels shitposting back and forth at each other

>>4836375
>This thing, I guess?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxLa6P6exc [Embed]


No this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk_JjfeChQA

They were commonly used as development kits within the game industry during the 32/64bit era. The N64 is basically a low grade Silicon Graphics workstation turned into a console. Playstation and Sega Saturn developers used them too at times. Even a banged up Indy workstation can be worth quite a bit of money to the right collectors.

Also, check out some of these videos:

This Indy workstation has Turok source code on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEy_ybKWsg

Here's another showing an N64 dev kit installed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyE9PGTRirI

But there is a also good chance that the machine you found was not used for game development, as they were also used for CG production and other things within the corporate field. Who knows what you will find on it.

>>4859501
No, it's pretty much just you samefagging trying to bait the faglord who called you a larping kid into a shitposting fiesta.