Silicon Graphics was the thing (in computer graphics) in the beginning of the nineties

Everything 404?

Sad

I spent a lot of time as a child playing the flight simulator demo, this brought back a lot of good memories

Back when I had my Indigo XS24 up and running as my main workstation, I remember they used to put out periodic "Hot Mix" demo CDs with a bunch of the latest third party software to try out. Loading the demos off the CD was excruciatingly slow, but I definitely looked forward to getting the disks in the mail.

I wish they had "Tranquility" in there, this was a really nice game on Irix.

Around 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?

related: old demoscene demos running in the browser: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241290

It's a unix system! I know this.

Not as technically impressive, but this compilation of Nvidia (nVidia?) tech demos 1998-2025 is historically interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfWSJvKFMPE

So looking forward to trying this! What was the one where a car was driving through a town with a few city blocks? The traffic lights would cycle way too fast…

The bounce demos all show the x29.. I wanted to see the Martini and the WV in particular, I remember those as very impressive at the time (shadowing etc). Maybe I have to fire up my old SGI Octane..

Reminds me walking Germanys Cebit each year to convince someone to sell me an SGI.

I remember the Crionics & Silents take on the jello demo:

https://youtu.be/OZTnR3FpUEA?t=412

... except that this was on a 7MHz chip.

Spent 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 ... :)