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Onyx2 Demos - Volume 2
Instructions
To install demos - click on the CD icon - that should launch Software
Manager and let you install the demos. If this doesn't work, then manually
launch Software Manager and type /CDROM/dist into the Available Software
Field, then press Lookup.
The demos will install into /usr/demos. From that directory type:
./portalis
To navigate click to the right or the left of a portal to turn, on a portal
to go into it (or execute it), and on the floor to go back.
There is Portalis help located to the left of the Infinite Reality portal -
there is both Portalis Dev. Help and Portalis Help...
Enjoy,
Advanced System Division - SGI
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Configuration
These demos are designed and tested for Onyx2 machines (running IRIX 6.4 or
IRIX 6.5). Trying to run demos on any other machines will probably not work.
Running on an older version of IRIX will probably not work either.
These demos are designed to run at 1280x1024. Running at other resolutions
is somewhat supported, but can still give inferior results - demos running
slowly, demos not running full screen. The demos are set up to run at any
resolution as much as possible, but running at 1280x1024 is still the
recommendation.
For demos that must be run on a 24" monitor (wider aspect ratio) the best
resolution to use is 1280x720. This is know as the HDTV format 720p. Save
this .vfo file in /usr/gfx/ucode/KONA/dg4/vfo and use ircombine...
These demos are designed to run in at least 512M of memory. A few will work
with less but will not run well. A few demos have options that will use up
to 1G of memory, but they are clearly marked. Portalis will detect the
amount of system memory and only run demos that have enough memory.
These demos prefer 2 RM boards. The demos will all run with 1 RM but many
will not run at full speed. 4 RM boards is even better but most demos will
work fine with 2. For those demos that absolutely require a certain number
of RMs, Portalis will check the system configuration and warn of problems as
needed.
Many of these demos require 64M texture memory RMs. (But Portalis will check
the system configuration and allow running any that don't have this
requirement.)
These demos are set up to run on a single pipe machine, with a mouse and
audio (only a few demos support audio). Support for multiple pipes
(including support for SEOS and Panoram) and other input devices (like a
Flybox) are now available. Portalis will prompt for configuration
information (Portalis does as much automatic detection as possible).
Understanding this list
The number given is the size of the inst image. This will give you a general
idea of how long the demo will take to install - but not of how large the
demo will be on disk.
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See README.html for more information on these demos.
29 M Apex (F14)
16 M DI-Guy
1 M DVR
6 M Distortion Correction
3 M Fake Clipfly
64 M From Space to In Your Face - 16M
48 M Laguna Beach
31 M Miscellaneous stuff - Portalis
7 M Performer Town
70 M Rosslyn
39 M SF clipmap
248 M Yosemite
HighEnd_Demos@sgi.com