On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 3:12 PM Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
When I brought a bunch of SGIs to VCF and networked them and played BZFLAG and Dogfight, I got flack for that.
I'm very sorry to hear you had that experience. Please contact me off list. We cannot have valuable contributors dissuaded from exhibiting.
Indeed!
You should have suffered nothing at all for your SGI exhibit.
Absolutely. I wasn't personally on SGI machines back in the day but not for lack of desire, it was only lack of funds. I always loved seeing them at Siggraph and other shows and *of course* there are games on powerful workstation platforms. Games are especially engaging for the casual audience at a VCF. Yes, there were "serious" apps on workstations too, but a lot of them are not something that's easy to demonstrate in 30-90 seconds. They were hard to learn then and they are hard to learn now. On top of that, in the 80s there were very few networked multi-machine games so that's special all by itself. So, Christian, let me add to the voices here of support and encouragement. SGI stuff is quirky and special. I always appreciate it when people bring some. -ethan