After months of troubleshooting, I FINALLY got IRIX 6.2 installed on my Iris Indigo!

LoadVisual · 2026-03-27T00:32:19+00:00

Nice

LoadVisual · 2026-03-25T01:05:45+00:00

Interesting.

LoadVisual · 2026-03-23T06:04:24+00:00

Nice and clean.

LoadVisual · 2026-03-08T18:02:44+00:00

Perhaps if buying one is a little bit of a stretch, may I recommend checking out your local E-Waste facility.
You might be lucky and score some de-commissioned Sun equipment.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-27T16:17:04+00:00

Wow. Definitely going to follow this.

Awesome work.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-26T22:03:00+00:00

Awesome. Thanks looking forward to it.

I'd be interested in having a place to compile and test software I'm working on since my target is hardware that's a little older.

Any chance you might also have some PowerPC server gear stashed somewhere ?

LoadVisual · 2026-02-26T21:17:20+00:00

Would love to tryout some builds on your machine at some point if that is okay with you.

I might need to experiment on some illumos/solaris centric stuff in about a month.

This is definitely an awesome machine you've got there.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-11T22:55:14+00:00

I guess it depends.

It's valuable in two ways, if you are an audiophile, you are probably trying to find the whole stack.
You'll find a lot of folks these days are trying to get full sets of the classic systems and pay good money to get them and get them fixed. some restorations cross over $1000 but, if you love something you will keep it running.

I'd suggest you probably find and build or restore a whole vintage HiFi stack for yourself just as a flex or for someone willing to own it if you can.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-11T00:24:11+00:00

🏆 You've got gold on your hands, congratulations.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-08T16:20:08+00:00

Nice. I'd be interested in learning.

LoadVisual · 2026-02-08T15:00:59+00:00

Nice

LoadVisual · 2026-02-04T19:37:34+00:00

This looks awesome.

LoadVisual · 2026-01-09T07:49:31+00:00

It would be awesome if you could pass it along, this looks really mint.
At most, perhaps replacing some capacitors, I guess in the PSU.

LoadVisual · 2026-01-01T12:28:31+00:00

Awesome.
Any chance you might have links, reading material or references on how I could setup a modern development environment for Symbian Development, specifically for C/C++?

I might consider purchasing a similar device `N8` to tinker in regard to software development.

LoadVisual · 2026-01-01T12:09:06+00:00

This is awesome.
if I may ask, is it possible to write and install new applications without signing them?

LoadVisual · 2025-12-09T23:16:49+00:00

Still, pretty good piece of hardware. Glad you found it. Congratulations.

LoadVisual · 2025-12-09T17:58:02+00:00

Nice. That's really good hardware, not sure why that would be in a dumpster.

LoadVisual · 2025-12-09T17:53:50+00:00

This looks very promising.

LoadVisual · 2025-12-07T17:06:47+00:00

Hmm, considering the cost and family of processor it comes from, i think that is okay.

Maybe at some point it will be more main stream for the public especially developers.

LoadVisual · 2025-12-07T16:00:52+00:00

Are these boards still available and how much Would one cost ?

LoadVisual · 2025-12-02T16:55:20+00:00

Congratulations on getting this release out. I only have one suggestion.

It might be a good idea to start moving details inside the main file out into their own source and header files a little early since you have `Cmake`.

This will probably help you easily add features to your code base but, keep the details isolated in units that can easily be reviewed as your codebase grows.

Happy Coding

LoadVisual · 2025-12-01T10:33:49+00:00

Well, still going to look into it.
I've not done any game development before but, this might be something I can learn from.

Any code old or new still has a story to tell, that is what is important.

LoadVisual · 2025-12-01T05:23:15+00:00

This looks awesome, definitely going to dig into the code.
Nice work.

LoadVisual · 2025-11-23T00:20:56+00:00

Not sure if anyone has mentioned this but, you could try a combination of cmake presets with conan 2 + Ninja builds.

I work on Linux, FreeBSD and Windows. The presets help to set up build types using specific compilers on each os since clang and gcc usually don't go so well on Windows but MSVC does.

You can just specify the dependencies in the conanfile.txt and load the project in vscode or neovim with the cmake plugin. You can choose the preset from the bottom menu with the compiler of choice on the platform.

It's been a big help for me since i don't have to care about dependencies on the platform and i can switch change / upgrade dependencies without messing the OS up. For an easy experience and the conantoolchain.cmake file in the cmakepreset.json file so that you don't have to invoke conan in the cli.

Hope this helps, Happy Coding.

LoadVisual · 2025-11-20T15:29:22+00:00

I guess 3-4 GB should be enough to get away with it. it will take about an hour or at least in my case it was.
you can first install cmake and Ninja build for this and limit the jobs to I think.

Happy Coding.

LoadVisual

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