[Irinikus]

<QUOTE author="commodorejohn" post_id="1635" time="1532190085" user_id="106">

Rad, sir! As far as getting Solaris on that sucker, you can try <B>boot cdrom</B> and see what happens - if all goes well it should blurb at you a bit and then kick you into the graphical installer.

Thanks, it worked and I’m busy installing Solaris, I will post feedback once it’s installed!


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From my experience so far, I have to say that it's allot less painful to install than IRIX is!

[commodorejohn]

Nice. Don't forget to hit up <URL url="https://www.opencsw.org/">OpenCSW for a variety of pre-built open-source packages once you're done.

[Irinikus]

<QUOTE author="commodorejohn" post_id="1639" time="1532192638" user_id="106">

Nice. Don't forget to hit up <URL url="https://www.opencsw.org/">OpenCSW for a variety of pre-built open-source packages once you're done.

Thanks for the link!

[Irinikus]

I'm having issues logging into SOLARIS, it wants a username, and I didn't specify one during the install process and the password which I specified isn't working!

I'm busy rebooting the machine and will show some pics of my problem once the system comes up!

[Irinikus]

I'm in:








The fans do quiet down a bit once the operating system's running, but it's still very loud!

[commodorejohn]

Spiffy! Now you just need to demo that beast of a GPU for us

[Irinikus]

<QUOTE author="commodorejohn" post_id="1643" time="1532196647" user_id="106">

Spiffy! Now you just need to demo that beast of a GPU for us

I will happily do so, I'm up for suggestions as to what software I could use to accomplish this?

[commodorejohn]

Good question, that - I have no idea what the 3D graphics scene on Solaris looks like. OpenCSW has a handful of OpenGL games as well as what looks like most of the libraries you'd need to build ports of any SDL1.2-plus-OpenGL engines, but I'm not sure there's anything that looks like a serious benchmark demo in there. You might be able to get ioquake3 going.

[jpstewart]

Houdini was available for Solaris 8 and newer in the 2001-2006 time frame. That probably corresponds to versions 5.0 to 7.0 (or thereabouts) of Houdini. Finding the software will be a challenge, to say the least! But it was available back in the day and would probably be very interesting on the beast.

[heavyfuel]

<QUOTE author="commodorejohn" post_id="1643" time="1532196647" user_id="106">

Spiffy! Now you just need to demo that beast of a GPU for us

I will happily do so, I'm up for suggestions as to what software I could use to accomplish this?

I don't know any games specifically for Solaris/SPARC, but some random thoughts if you want to try games...

Minecraft - needs a new enough Java installation, however, it also requires some native libraries (LWJGL, OpenAL, JInput; see ~/.minecraft/bin/natives) and I guess that the MC Launcher does not provide these for Solaris/SPARC. Since they are open source you might be able to compile them yourself. Or download them from repositories if available.

Minecraft server shouldn't need those so it should be easier to run. It might run quite well.

Minetest - an open source Minecraft-like game engine.

Xonotic - an open source FPS game based on Darkplaces engine (a Quake engine port).


I don't know if endianness can become a problem if you want to play over network. Old SPARC versions are big endian but newer versions seem to support bi-endian mode (with little endian data access).