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Bear in mind that XZ does NOT accelerate textures, so running Quake it will be almost as slow as the 8-bit or 24-bit 2D boards. There's really just no way to play Quake at an acceptable speed on an Indy. The best you can do is to upgrade to an R5K CPU, though even that will not run Quake at a good speed. It runs Doom great, though.

Make sure that it's XZ (I'm 99% sure that the reversal was a typo, but) Sun had a 3-D graphics boardset called ZX for the SPARCstations and SBus that won't fit in your Indy.

XZ is eqivalent to Indigo2 XZ (improved XZ) or Indigo1 Elan. It accelerates geometry processing and (and this is the biggie for applications that can use one) it has a hardware Z-buffer. It doesn't support hardware texturing, though, unlike the later, better IMPACT graphics for Indigo2.

FWIW almost all Silicon Graphics graphics setups have full OpenGL support in drivers - it's just that some of the functions are performed by the system's CPU.

The exceptions are the older IRIS-GL graphics (which have varying levels of OpenGL support from none (original IRIS graphics) to most but not everything (PowerVision VGX).

The other exception is, strangely enough, XS graphics, which, unless you plug in a hardware Z-buffer, can't do Z-buffer operations (unless a newer IRIX has fixed that - my information on the XS issue is older).

Oh, okay.

I'll be sure to check next time .

rscottdrysdale: I Don't know if this will be inspiration to you for using your Indy for MP3's but this is a pretty cool blog posting detailing the author's Indy MP3 server project.

http://geektechnique.org/projectlab/830 ... mp3-player

RIP Mark Hoekstra