31 Mar
2016
31 Mar
'16
7:58 a.m.
I'm an SGI guy too!
In college I worked as a sysadmin for a lab running a Challenge, and Indigo
and Indy desktops. I have a nice O2 with a 1600SW, and just got an Octane
that seems to have a bad graphics board. In the past I had an Indy and an
Indigo with ELAN graphics.
I'd love to have a Tezro, or even a Fuel, but they're hard to come by!
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:41 AM, devin davison <lyokoboy0 at gmail.com> wrote:
Cool to see another SGI guy around here. Welcome to
the list.
Im scheduled to pick up a couple of Tezro's next month along with some
related hardware and software. ill post back with some pictures to show
what I pick up.
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com>
wrote:
--
Ben Sinclair
ben at bensinclair.com
http://lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=96
I recently picked up one of these devices. I'll apologize in advance if
you folks have already had a discussion about the MiST. Basically, it's
an
FPGA that's capable of emulation (for lack of
a better term) of many
platforms on a hardware level. I only got mine about two weeks ago, and
I'm
still sifting through a ton of material and
focused mainly on the Amiga
and
ST platforms (stuff I played with as a pre-teen
and teen). I have to say,
so far it's pretty awesome.
The coolest feature in my opinion is the standard joystick ports on the
side that "just work" with all the emulation targets. I always favored
using Sega Genesis controllers in those (rather than the rinky-dink
little
"red joystick" of the time). They work
oh-so-great with this rig.
The only issue is finding a monitor that doesn't have a fit over 15Khz
refresh rates. I use an NEC MultiSync with sync-on-green and all that fun
stuff. I'm still busy getting AROS running on "my Amiga" (which is
represented by an SD card with my ROM image from my A3000 and a metric
crapton of floppy images).
You basically hit a keystroke or joystick combo and you can swap
floppies,
reboot, etc.. If you are into any of these, I can
recommend the MiST:
* ST/STE (also on SCART 15KHz)
* Amiga 500/600/1200 ( AGA CORE BETA core)
* C64 (partially - still developed)
* Atari 8bit ( 96%)
* Collecovision
* ZX81
* Atari 2600
* ZX Spectrum with AY, aslo with DIVMMC and ESXDOS
* SEGA GENESIS
* Apple II(x)
* MSX
* AMSTRAD CPC (BETA)
* A few others, you'll want to check.
BTW, I'm new to the list (1st post). So, I'll introduce myself. I'm
just another IT worker with a background in Unix systems. I'm 41 and I
started with HP-UX 10.x (high school) and branched out to every kind of
Unix box I could get my hands on (Yes. I'm one of those Unix zealots, but
that might be too gentle a description). I spent the 90's with SGIs
(which
I still collect, I have an O2+, two Indys, and a
bruzin' Tezro fully
built
out). I spent the early 2k's coding for
supper as a "security engineer"
(read: writing exploits which I don't much care for now) and some stints
as
a Tru64 admin. On the in between gigs and
contracts I've touched just
about
everything (and in the last 10 years a lot of new
Unix hardware). I've
professionally admin'd or coded for IRIX, Solaris, Linux, Tru64 (OSF/1 or
Digital Unix for some), FreeBSD, HP-UX, UNICOS, and AIX. As a hobbyist,
I've also tinkered greatly with NetBSD (maybe my favorite), OpenBSD, and
Minix. Then of course there is the spacey or rare stuff I've put hands
on.
I'm talking about things like UnixWare,
Xenix, SCO, SunOS, BSDi, DG/UX,
NeXTStep/OpenStep, A/UX, and even non-Unix stuff like Sprite, L4, QNX,
HURD, BeOS, Haiku, AROS, Genode, and others. I code fairly well in C,
shell
script, and TCL. I code not-as-well in AREXX,
Python, Ruby, PHP, Lua,
and a
few other scripting languages. I'm pleased to
be on this list, and to
make
your myriad acquaintances.
-Swift
PS: My spell checker needs and ex-lax after going insane over this email
full of Unix variants and ancient platforms.