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Mame Indigo2 emulation.
Just a heads up, Mame's indigo2 emulation can install and boot to Irix 6.5 desktop.  It is still very slow, but there has been some major progress recently.  Made a snapshot of the desktop:


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06-03-2019, 09:13 PM
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RE: Mame Indigo2 emulation.
Please keep emulation to the emulation sections.
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06-03-2019, 11:47 PM
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RE: Mame Indigo2 emulation.
Nice to see that progress!
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06-04-2019, 07:33 AM
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RE: Mame Indigo2 emulation.
The latest GIT build allows use of a lower clocked 100mhz R4600 Indy, which runs a tiny bit faster. It also fixes the graphical errors above, I think.

I never managed to install Irix on a Indigo2 in MAME, though, as it crashed due to the HOSTID not being set (it seemed that setenv -f only worked on the Indy?)
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06-04-2019, 09:04 PM
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RE: Mame Indigo2 emulation.
Would anyone mind sharing a .chd image with 6.5 installed? Would also be helpful to know the exact ROM name that you used to boot it.
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06-04-2019, 09:24 PM
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RE: Mame Indigo2 emulation.
Use the indy_4610.bin rom, for the R4600 100mhz. It's smoother running (though in actual spec the slowest Indy).
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06-05-2019, 05:29 PM
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RE: Mame Indigo2 emulation.
(06-04-2019, 09:24 PM)shrek Wrote:  Would anyone mind sharing a .chd image with 6.5 installed? Would also be helpful to know the exact ROM name that you used to boot it.

This, please. Figured next time I would see that desktop would be in emulation.
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06-05-2019, 05:31 PM
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RE: Mame Indigo2 emulation.
I know this is an old thread, but is Indigo2 development done for MAME?
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11-12-2019, 04:20 PM
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RE: Mame Indigo2 emulation.
(11-12-2019, 04:20 PM)lukepowo Wrote:  I know this is an old thread, but is Indigo2 development done for MAME?
Development isn't done for any SGI machines in MAME. As of less than a month ago there was still no networking, graphics aren't 100%, and there's some rather serious input lag when typing and moving the mouse. And it's extremely slow. So I would say it's very much a work in progress still, as opposed to something like MacOS emulation which works better than the original machines in 95% of cases.
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11-12-2019, 05:03 PM
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RE: Mame Indigo2 emulation.
(11-12-2019, 05:03 PM)shrek Wrote:  
(11-12-2019, 04:20 PM)lukepowo Wrote:  I know this is an old thread, but is Indigo2 development done for MAME?
Development isn't done for any SGI machines in MAME. As of less than a month ago there was still no networking, graphics aren't 100%, and there's some rather serious input lag when typing and moving the mouse. And it's extremely slow. So I would say it's very much a work in progress still, as opposed to something like MacOS emulation which works better than the original machines in 95% of cases.

Perhaps I should have worded better... what I really wanted to ask is Indigo2 development over to perhaps focus more on the Indy side of things?
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