[InactiveUser45]

Was mainly asking because if I could run an emulated machine and able to run Power Animator or other 3D software I could make a few tutorials without my SGI machines.

The bonus being that I could screen capture it better on emulation. But, since I have read that it runs slower than normal maybe the performance would be dismal and wouldn't be great for running 3d apps.

I guess it might 'work', depending on how advanced the graphics emulation is. But yes, it is very slow: even just typing on the prompt on a (X11) terminal already is so slow for me that keystrokes are regularly 'missed / not registered'. Meaning I can type faster than the emulation can keep up with, and that's not because I am such an amazingly fast typist. Don't get me wrong here: I am really glad and excited that the emulation has advanced this far due to the hard work of the MAME developers, but it's just not fast enough at this point for anything serious.