[Hiraghm]

I got Irix running in Mame on my Windows 7 machine, using Mame64 .223... but as that's a slow system with a dual core cpu, I wanted to try running it on my Linux (Mint) box, which as dual six core Xeon processors at 3ghz, 32gb ram, and an nvidia 1060 graphics card. Not the most powerful machine, but better than the windows one.

However, I discovered that mame on my Linux machine is at version .195... I cannot find a binary of .223 for any debian variant of Linux. I tried cloning the git repository and compiling, but the compile failed in the metalmx.cpp driver file (can't convert 'short unsigned int*' to 'const uint32_t*')

Does anyone know where I can find a binary release of mame64 .223 for debian Linux?

I miss my old O2, and recently saw a video of someone using Blender 1.0 in Irix under MAME, hence my interest.

This may not be all that helpful to you, but it looks like sid (unstable) has version 0.223 [1]. In general though, I get the impression (but you know what happens whem we assUme) that debian tends to stick to older/stable/proven versions of packages, instead of going for the bleeding edge. But I may be wrong here.

Anyway, I should note that the emulation is fairly slow even on a reasonably fast machine, so I personally have doubts if you can run something like Blender in a usable manner. But you may have different results, a few posts upward discuss possible ways of speeding up the emulation somewhat.


[1]
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mame&searchon=names&suite=sid&section=all

Well, Greg Blends actually did! On Windows, evidently...

Greg Blends Runs Blender 3D on Irix

Greg Blends Makes a Donut in Blender3D 1.0 on Irix

Greg Blends Makes Money For Nothing Scene in Blender3D 1.0 on Irix