New Year's Cleaning

[Benjamin Scott]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name> wrote:
> I remember seeing a nice Macintosh emulator for Irix once.

  I remember trying to get the IRIX Doom port running on an Indigo,
just for kicks.  It crashed the system.  I still remember all the
pretty GUI graphics vanishing in an eye-blink, to be replaced with a
plain blue text screen (hey, this sounds familiar!) with the message:

	PANIC: KERNEL FAULT

... and some kind of register dump.  I thought for sure I was gonna be
fired, but it rebooted okay.  *phew*

  Trivia: The original Doom's original map editor (used in-house at id
Software to build the game) ran only on a Unix-like system.  It was
either an SGI or NeXT platform, I forget which.  DOS PCs at the time
barely had enough power to run the game; they couldn't edit it.

-- Ben