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Hello SGI community. I am new and proud owner of Octane 2. I always wanted to have SGI and finally I have this amazing machine. So far so good. This is my configuration:

2x R14000 600MHz and 1.2GB of RAM. 
Graphics is V10. 

 I was able to install IRIX 6.5.30 using this how-to: 

http://techpubs.spinlocksolutions.com/ir...linux.html
Btw very much recommended. 
Also I installed patches from here: http://us.irisware.net/sgi-irix/patches/
I only installed patches without the conflicts - warnings. Everything else I have left alone since I am not really Irix expert. 

Now my question is - I installed 6.5.30. Did I make the right choice for this machine? 
I see that some people install 6.5.22. Is there any particular reason for this? 
Also on the Internet there is a reference to IRIXIFY VM - recommended by some SGI enthusiasts. 
Do you know where to find this awesome tool and what is the benefit?

Since installation was success I wanted to try famous SGI 3D demos! 
However for some reason I discovered that I don't have any demos installed  :dodgy:
I assume I need separate "Demo disk" so I was able to download demos from some random site. 
Maybe not the best choice but well.... Beethoven is spinning   Do you guys know if there is a better resource to get all the SGI demos, or if not all - at least a good collection?

Then I discovered Nekoware and nekodeps.pl so after playing with the script I was able to use fr.irisware.net mirror and I installed many useful programs... like bash, nano, vim, mc etc... Majority of applications will install and work just fine.
However for some applications I get a lot of conflict(s) or missing warnings. For example MPlayer, Pidgin, Gimp... Am I missing something? My impression was that Nekoware is designed to resolve and prevent this? What am I doing wrong?  :-/

Finally my last question is regarding Quake 3 / Quake 1. 
My Q3 Nekoware-Nekodeps installation was success. 
After adding game files, game will start and work! However   :s
For some reason only resolution that works fine is 320x240. Everything else will produce some artefacts (in the menus). Higher the resolution - more the chance for artefacts. Also sky gets broken sometimes. I was trying many different resolutions, quality settings etc... problem persist - In fullscreen and window mode as well. In addition to all this I am not sure why fullscreen does not scale. 320x240 looks tiny on my SGI LCD screen.  
Maybe my V10 is not the best choice for Quake? I hope that is not the case. Also Quake 1 will not start. 
Term will just close when I start Quake 1 binary. Again... I am lost.  :huh:

Other than that I think I am making a good progress. 
Even after so many years machine is impressive! 
At this time I am keeping Octane in the office so my co-workers can take a look. Most of the staff are aging geeks like myself and there is no better toy in the world for us. Usually first reaction is cheese quote- "It is a UNIX system!!"   
Huh. Sorry for this long post. I hope you guys have some advice for me. 

Cheers

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