You're welcome :)

Wanted to ensure it was clear lol.

It's a labor of love for me.

A love we all share!

Greetings HN,

As the current Nekonomicon steward, taking over the project from Elf, I finally added a "new section".

Let me explain

Nekochan.net was a famous SGI site that went down on May 21st 2018. Remember the day like it was yesterday. I got up, went to a restaurant to get some food and people start bombarding me while I'm eating.

Anyways, in 2019 Elf, a user of IRIXNet, decided to grab the forum posts off archive.org and reformat them as the "Nekonomicon Book of Notes"

In 2020 I manually (2104 images!) grabbed the original images and metadata off nekochan's archive.org and put it on Silicon Image.

Well, Silicon Image is getting migrated soon to a new project I built using Laravel. As part of this, I built a static site generator in python to rebuild this into a Nekonomicon book of illustrations. After 2-3 days of rapid prototyping, I got it up and running here:

http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/gallery/index.html

The tarball will be updated soon.

Future Nekonomicon updates might include:

1. Geoman and a few other community members ganked forum backups. I might be able to eventually merge and reconcile, but I suspect that will necessitate AI assistance.

2. The Nekochan.net blog. Mostly for nostalgia.

Anyways, enjoy the memory lane trip.

Thanks for this! I have an SGI o2 with R5K CPU I need to get going one of these days!

Just in time. O2 RAM sticks are probably entering reproduction (but you didnt hear that from me :) )

Do not turn off environmental monitoring. That's for debugging only. That's how people are cooking the video cards. Please get your fuel /properly/ repaired by say weblacky on irixnet. The reason why? With env monitoring off, the system won't respond to overheating on the graphics card and it'll cook it alive. The fuel has notoriously bad airflow (air doesn't move right angles)

"We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those with a voice."

Applies here. SGI hardware holds interest because "ooh pretty animations/GL". IBM is great stuff, but it's all workhorses.

You could use the NVME driver to load the filesystem and boot the kernel diskless...

Ummmm...

https://irixnet.org/

http://nekonomicon.irixnet.org/ -- Nekochan backup

Nay, the N64 is pretty unique hardware-wise. Conceptually it's vaguely similar to the O2, the RCP is an R4000 fixed function CPU with some extra graphics instructions IIRC.

It runs like arse though.

I'm working on some OpenGL stuff at least.