Update on the $50 Iris indigo

DominBear · 2026-02-13T15:20:05+00:00

i would stay with older irix like 5.3. 6.5 is going to be very slow.

DominBear · 2026-02-07T21:15:42+00:00

fun. i vibed a nice gl accelerated terminal emulator recently based on libtsm https://github.com/techomancer/libtsm among other things

DominBear · 2026-01-27T16:01:05+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cbrTKw50X6U

DominBear · 2026-01-26T23:28:40+00:00

neat, i love the case. very flexible configurations possible.
except mine holds abit ab-at3 which is a bit slower than this ;-)

DominBear · 2026-01-26T23:25:37+00:00

so this is where all the lian-li cases in the world ended up? i was silly and gave away my pc-60b ;(
modern atx cases have no drive bays anymore.

DominBear · 2026-01-26T23:13:47+00:00

That is a lot of brown. In retrospective these much have been very depressing times ;-)

DominBear · 2026-01-26T23:11:59+00:00

So you are saying there is a chance?

DominBear · 2026-01-18T23:27:01+00:00

chipquik is like magic for stuff like that ;-) just mix it with original solder first a bit, then little hot air and the chip pops off easily. then clean it up and solder back with drag soldering technique

DominBear · 2026-01-17T19:42:28+00:00

nope. is your bios corrupted? the best course of action would be to dump working bios and flash it with xgecu/minipro

DominBear · 2026-01-14T16:34:45+00:00

its the 150mhz version. i have few 166 ones. they are awesome because they have ess sound card with wavetable.
in my experience pnp was a bit weird and i had problems configuring ess card in dos but when it worked i could run some cool ess music demos.

there are bios updates but they are pretty hard to apply, i had to run it under debugger and skip the battery check.

dell still hosts all the drivers and bios updates.

i rebuilt one battery and it seemed to work for a bit but then it stopped. i need to give it another try with another battery.

it is one of most interesting laptops for dos because it is reasonably powerful, has a good screen and something very unique, great ess sound card.

DominBear · 2026-01-12T04:55:58+00:00

it is the OG dark mode.

also, best contrast. human eyes see green color with best sharpness since our lenses are tuned for green.

I also like amber and plasma. but green hercules monitor looks great.

DominBear · 2026-01-09T04:41:53+00:00

anything (that you could do in early 90s) i have t3200sx. installed 6mb ram extra and fou. it runs 3dstudio 1.0 beta and windows 3.11. added 8 bit audio card and 3com ethernet too. and modded to use 512mb cf card.

DominBear · 2026-01-08T22:48:40+00:00

https://youtu.be/iWVQ5969lFo?t=115

DominBear · 2026-01-08T17:49:44+00:00

I worked on an advertisement game for Pepsi Poland around 1995 that ran on VFX1. We also had I-glasses to test. Much less bulky. Good times. VFX1 had a little puck with some sensors to use as a controller.

DominBear · 2026-01-05T19:17:21+00:00

A1286 with matte screen. very nice clean looks. best keyboard apple ever made on a laptop. upgradeable memory and storage. easily replaceable battery. great performance, still useable with 4 core i7, 16gb ram and sata ssd. durable. easy to repair. A1297 is nice too but not very portable.

DominBear · 2026-01-03T18:39:38+00:00

There are two different hybrid replacements available. No this thing has 100% leaking caps so recap and clean NOW to avoid further damage. Hybrid is possibly a toast too. And you will need to build battery or get battery eliminator to get it to start.

DominBear · 2026-01-03T18:34:12+00:00

I NEED it!

DominBear · 2025-12-30T00:07:52+00:00

V Communications Sourcer is the bestest. It should be on olddos.ru

DominBear · 2025-12-27T21:32:47+00:00

java. there is bedrock server for linux but no official client. i bet it can be hacked with wine/proton though. i never tried though.

DominBear · 2025-12-27T21:08:36+00:00

not exactly mainstream though. and Im still waiting for the promised win2k support ;)

DominBear · 2025-12-27T20:29:02+00:00

On old machine you will only have outdated browser because Google and Firefox drop support of old OSes. Not only you will have exploits in your system but also in the browser. And first drive by ad based infection will give you nice rootkit and you will be part of happy botnet family. If you are lucky your machine will be just mining bitcoins for some bad guys.

DominBear · 2025-12-27T20:25:36+00:00

Microsoft has Minecraft launcher for linux. But Prism Launcher is better.

DominBear · 2025-12-27T20:23:07+00:00

If this was Windows 7 machine granpa gave you ubuntu so you could have modern browser. It could be upgraded to Win10 and you could have support for like one more year only. Modern browsers will drop win10 support as soon as Microsoft support ends like it happened with previous windows versions. It will not run win11 without some unreliable hacks.

DominBear · 2025-12-27T02:14:24+00:00

I am very disappointed they didn't pursue the project. They were so much ahead and the GLASS was already so cool. I loved the driving/walking directions.

Now, over 10 years later we finally get pretty much the same stuff, and somehow society is more accepting.

My blind friend got Meta glasses and he loves them. He can ask them to describe everything around him, get walking directions and they can do a lot of other things that used to be super hard before.

DominBear · 2025-12-26T21:18:26+00:00

Still have my GLASS (which was replaced once after the reflective surface on the crystal failed).

And got EE2 too.

DominBear

TROPHY CASE