Re: Compiling games on RS6000

From: Benjamin Gawert (bgawert_at_gmx.de)
Date: 07/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 21:11:25 +0200

Ghazan Haider wrote:

> I have a 43P-140 233MHz with GXT800P. So I opened the GXT card, and
> the chips didnt quite make sense. I just cant equate them with PC
> equivalents.

It's difficult. The GXT800P is quite old, the overall performance should be
somewhere around a Nvidia Riva128ZX or ATI Rage IIc. Not really fast by the
last years' standards...

> Has anyone compiled games on 3d-capable RS6000 boxes, in AIX or Linux
> or BSD?

Sure, there are Quake and Quake2 for AIX. However, they run only acceptable
on an 43P-150 (375MHz PPC604) with GXT2000P and up. On a 43P-140 with 233MHz
and GXT800P You won't have much fun with games, the system and the gfx is
just too slow...

> Alternatively, has anyone tried to use RS6000 video cards in other
> boxes with success?

No, but why should anyone do this? Honestly, the gfx cards for RS/6000's are
not the fastest ones, and besides that there simply are no drivers on other
platforms, and other platforms also don't have Firmware/BIOS support for
these cards.

Benjamin