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mamed · 04-10-2021, 09:20 PM

These seem interesting, The developer program you used to be able to sign up for 100$ and get some discs. From what I've googled there is some cool stuff on them. I've looked on archive.org and every location I could think of and didn't find them. Does anyone have virtual copies I could take a look at?

chulofiasco · 04-12-2021, 03:29 AM

(04-10-2021, 09:20 PM)mamed Wrote: These seem interesting, The developer program you used to be able to sign up for 100$ and get some discs. From what I've googled there is some cool stuff on them. I've looked on archive.org and every location I could think of and didn't find them. Does anyone have virtual copies I could take a look at?

check this out: CLICK HERE

mamed · 04-12-2021, 01:57 PM

(04-12-2021, 03:29 AM)chulofiasco Wrote:
(04-10-2021, 09:20 PM)mamed Wrote: These seem interesting, The developer program you used to be able to sign up for 100$ and get some discs. From what I've googled there is some cool stuff on them. I've looked on archive.org and every location I could think of and didn't find them. Does anyone have virtual copies I could take a look at?

check this out: CLICK HERE

oh cool isos and everything ( I checked on wayback) as it keeps givingme error 404 is that server shut down?

chulofiasco · 04-12-2021, 06:15 PM

(04-12-2021, 01:57 PM)mamed Wrote:
(04-12-2021, 03:29 AM)chulofiasco Wrote:
(04-10-2021, 09:20 PM)mamed Wrote: These seem interesting, The developer program you used to be able to sign up for 100$ and get some discs. From what I've googled there is some cool stuff on them. I've looked on archive.org and every location I could think of and didn't find them. Does anyone have virtual copies I could take a look at?

check this out: CLICK HERE
oh cool isos and everything ( I checked on wayback) as it keeps givingme error 404 is that server shut down?

oh wow, I didn't realize the page was down...

karpour · 04-23-2021, 09:42 PM

That's a bummer, can anyone upload these ISOs CD Images to the internet archive?

**Raion** · 04-23-2021, 10:47 PM

>ISOs

Reminder that 90% of what SGI released was an EFS filesystem on a CD.

**vishnu** · 04-23-2021, 11:41 PM

Raion wrote: Reminder that 90% of what SGI released was an EFS filesystem on a CD.

True, but Linux has support for that filesystem.

**Raion** · 04-24-2021, 12:31 AM

So does NetBSD, that's not the point. I object to incorrect conventions of file formats - ISO refers to ISO9660/Joliet/RockRidge/Sometimes UDF, it's not a universal standard though it's treated that way ignorantly.

robespierre · 04-24-2021, 02:20 AM

A *.iso file is simply an image of an Yellow Book Mode 1 track. It does not require or (for its normal use case) imply the recognition of any file system at all.

**Raion** · 04-24-2021, 03:02 AM

An optical disc image (or ISO image, from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_disc_image

Literally first line on Wikipedia, what do you know? It does refer to ISO9660.

The issue is, ISOs are expected to be readable, mountable, burnable etc in any computer supporting the standard.

Some people call Dreamcast disks ISOs. But what's the most common format? .cdi or mdf/mds or bin/cue. It's very common in gaming circles to do this - if it has a filesystem readable by common computers, use .iso - otherwise, use another format.

For non-ISO-compatible filesystems, it's best to either use .img (which is more generic) or for IRIX's case, .efs. This follows the Linux standard of most distros calling their ext3/4 based CD images .img. Some do .iso - it's not best practice.

I'm only debating the topic because it promotes foolishness - genericizing file extensions is an easy way to cause confusion.

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