Using fsn on an Indigo2

[itsvince725]

Even though it's ridiculous and not particularly useful my endless love of Jurassic Park has me wanting to run fsn on my Indigo2. My question is: how much horsepower do I need to run it? I've got a 150MHz R4400, Newport graphics, and a currently unknown amount of RAM.

[Raion-Fox]

I used it on an Octane R10k 195MHz with MXE graphics and it was perfectly usable. You may have enough power to use it on there considering how well it runs on the Octane or not, it depends.

[itsvince725]

I've seen it run on an R10000 Indigo2 with Max IMPACT graphics but I don't know if it can run on anything lesser.

[robespierre]

As an IrisGL program without textures, it will run on just about anything.

[uunix]

Brilliant program, I used it many years ago and it really is as slow and useless as it is in the film.
[Edit] Actually it was useful, it did enable them to lock the doors, although who in all of us would open up fsm as a first command on any unix system?

[itsvince725]

I mostly just want to do a video demonstrating it for friends and have an excuse to utter that infamous quote.

Great, I'll have to install it once the Indigo2 has its hard drive situation worked out.

[Krokodil]

although who in all of us would open up fsm as a first command on any unix system?

Certainly not that person in the film. I can tell you that much.

[Trippynet]

It's certainly worth trying. It runs OK on my Indigo2. I do have the R10000, but only SolidImpact graphics. But as robespierre says, it doesn't use texturing, so should run at least to a reasonable degree on your Indigo2!

[jpstewart]

For what it's worth, the README for fsn says:

Fsn requires Z-buffering and RGB support. You must be running IRIX release 4.0.1 or greater.

Those are some pretty low requirements. Later in the file, there's a warning that some things may not work so well on an Indigo. Your Indigo2 should be much more usable.

[Shiunbird]

Brilliant program, I used it many years ago and it really is as slow and useless as it is in the film.
[Edit] Actually it was useful, it did enable them to lock the doors, although who in all of us would open up fsm as a first command on any unix system?

I'd go for some tcl stuff, like:

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while {[gets $door_list door_number] >=0} {spawn "echo open > /dev/$door_number"}

Edit: forgot to close a quote.

[ClassicHasClass]

It runs fine on my Indy. I can't imagine your Indigo2 would run it any worse.