Inside MAME's SGI Indy emulation: A test-drive of SGI IRIX

SGI enthusiasts have been wanting SGI emulation for years.
It went totally unnoticed by myself, but MAME, formerly known as the Multi Arcade Machine Emulator, added emulation support for SGI workstations in 2019.
Albeit I wanted to look into running SoftWindows 95 on IRIX, I ended up venturing into SGI emulation, for the simple reason to check compability between both IRIX 5.3 and an older SoftWindows package.
So reason enough for a closer look on a test-drive of SGI's own UNIX-variant, IRIX, and MAME's SGI MIPS emulation.

00:00 Intro
00:36 A slow System as a Motivation
02:00 SGI Emulation in MAME
03:49 Making it Work
07:24 Installing IRIX into MAME
11:49 A sneak peek at SoftWindows
13:07 Motivating "inst" to install
14:54 Going Back to Real Hardware
18:48 Conclusion
20:30 Credits

MAME SGI Emulation Tutorial:
https://sites.google.com/site/console...

Patching MAME to overcome hard-coded Emulation Mem-limit:
https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-187...

SGI IRIX downloads:
http://jrra.zone/sgi/#pg-7

Hardening SGI IRIX:
https://www.giac.org/paper/gsec/4374/...

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