SGI system’s were the absolute pinnacle of 80’s and 90’s era graphics computing. Re-creating that world, however, is harder than one thinks. While old OS’s are often easily run in virtual machines, SGI’s Irix and other os’s do not run well in virtual machines. In fact, only certain versions of MAME seem to work – and getting it working is a real experiment in patience.

Here’s one of the few instruction threads that seems to work.