My restored Sun Ultra 2, Creator3D edition

[ladyerrant]

So not a gaming machine, per se, but I do a lot of work on old computers in my spare time. I just finished getting this Sun Ultra 2 up and running and wanted to share.
Getting the console up:


Getting a working framebuffer:

Booting the Solaris 2.6 installer:

Booting from the way overkill 73gb Toshiba Ultra320 drive:

Browsing my website in the last good browser, Netscape 4.51



Lets play quake:


Its got 2gb of ram, 2 300Mhz Ultrasparc II CPUs and the afforementioned Creator3D graphics card. Its a pretty sweet machine. Can't wait to show it off at the upcoming Interim Computing Festival here in Seattle this month.

 

[BinaryMessiah]

Nice! Love seeing this kind of stuff.

 

[Don Patch]

That's too cool!

 

[ladyerrant]

Follow up. It put up a fight but I got XMMS running on it. Was listening to soma.fm on it yesterday evening. Kinda crazy because I know, in 1997 when this thing was built, my PC could _not_ play MP3s. This thing was a beast. Also, got Apple's own Mac emulator running and was playing Heroes of Might and Magic 2.