Not as technically impressive, but this compilation of Nvidia (nVidia?) tech demos 1998-2025 is historically interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfWSJvKFMPE
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#22Reminds me walking Germanys Cebit each year to convince someone to sell me an SGI.
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#23I remember the Crionics & Silents take on the jello demo:
https://youtu.be/OZTnR3FpUEA?t=412
... except that this was on a 7MHz chip.
Re: SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM
#24Spent many (un)happy hours in front of both SGI Indy and SGI O2 during my PhD...
High point was definitely when we found out that if you telnetted to another box you could remotely play audio clips and the operator typically had no idea what was going on. Every single device ended up with a collection of Star Wars audio clips ... :)
Re: SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM
#25Not as technically impressive, but this compilation of Nvidia (nVidia?) tech demos 1998-2025 is historically interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfWSJvKFMPE
That is soooo interesting! Worth a submission to HN
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#26Like raising dinosaurs from their blood found in amber-encapsulated mosquitoes dug up in mines deep underground, archaic software has been resurrected with modern technology because computer scientists were so excited they could, they didn't stop to ask if they should!
1/10 for usefulness but 10/10 for cool
Re: SGI demos from long ago in the browser via WASM
#27Around 1995 or 1996, a friend said he'd played a speederbike graphics/game demo running on an SGI system at some kind of touring SGI promotional event. I've never been able to find screenshots or video of it, and was hoping it might be included here. No such luck. I don't suppose anyone remembers it?
GLTron or Armagetron Advanced?
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#29It's a unix system! I know this.
When that movie came out, I was in school and living in special interest housing for computer science students. A bunch of us went to see the movie together, and when she said that line we all erupted in laughter, much to the confusion of the rest of the theater.
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#30Anyone remember a MSDos capture the flag game where you controlled jello blobs like the jello demo [0], went left to right in 3D and controlled with the mouse. Been trying to remember the name of it.
[0] https://sgi-demos.github.io/sgi-demos/demos/jello/web/jello_...