Recent content by AstridRedfern

@Al Kossow Thanks for that. Thanks also for uploading your copies of Aviator 1.2 and the trial version of 1.5.1 back in 2019 - hope you saw the 1.5.1 footage and it brought back some memories!

This post follows on from discussion in https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/the-aviator-flight-sim-for-sun-gx-hardware-e-g-sparcstations.1240578/page-2 - in which @tokenalt mentioned that they couldn't run SunOS 4.1 or earlier on their 4C because it had PROM 2.X. One of the places I went...

A recent post on forums DOT sgi DOT sh claims that PROM 1.X isn't actually needed for Sun OS 4.1 or earlier - apparently there's some kind of 1.X compatibility mode the 2.X PROM can be put into. The exact quote: (I don't know what OBP stands for. On-Board PROM perhaps?) I know nothing about...

Update - the ROM IC they were asking about is definitely for the SS1+.

(Cross-posting this from another thread I opened. Mods... if that's not OK and you want to delete one of the duplicates, please leave this one intact and delete the other one. Though if I can keep both up, that would be cool.) These are some responses I've received on Reddit. I'm not familiar...

These are some responses I've received on Reddit. I'm not familiar with Sun hardware myself (which is why I'm asking for help from you clever people!) So I'd like to ask for some more information once you've read the below Reddit quote. To whit: Does anyone know the answer to leadedsolder's...

Thanks - this is something I'm definitely looking forward to seeing.

Hi all, As some of you may know, I've been asking about the old Sun flight sim "Aviator" on these forums, and in particular looking for someone who can get versions 1.2 and/or 1.5.1 to work on their Sun hardware. The original thread for this is at...

@tokenalt BTW, did 1.5 have a way to switch to a third-person view, so that you could see the plane in-flight? Or was it limited to just the view from the cockpit?

@tokenalt Sorry it's taken me a week to log on - but huge thanks for uploading that video - and for getting it to work on your Sun HW as well! Thanks also for the analysis on what it would take to get v1.2 running. @xelalex Thanks to you for the screenshots you uploaded - I thought I'd...

Hi, (Hoping this is the right section of the forum - but I am asking about software that ran on an Irix workstation...) A poster on the sgi.sh forums (https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/wsi-weatherproducer-3-0.890) is looking for a copy of WSI WeatherProducer 3.0. Apparently they're part...

Thanks to @xelalex - sorry it didn't work. It doesn't look like that'll help - someone listed the system requirements for a version of Aviator, and these included: (Source: An old Usenet thread archived at https://groups.google.com/g/rec.aviation.simulators/c/x3bblgM_Ldo/m/XRobIJOIEWYJ) So...

Thanks, but I don't think it was ACM. An old Usenet post said of ACM: "the graphics is VERY simple (no fancy landscape with mountains and valleys to fly around in this one, buy Aviator if you want that :-)." Source: https://groups.google.com/g/rec.aviation.simulators/c/zdzy6FuvXVQ/m/GfnQUi454lYJ

It could well be. I've left a comment on the Stack Exchange post - hopefully OP will respond. Thanks for that!

Thanks - but from the Reddit poster's experience, it definitely won't work in that: