Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: mg@godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au (Mike Gigante) Newsgroups: comp.archives Subject: [comp.lang.scheme.c] Re: SGI Iris [available for FTP] Message-ID: <1991Jun14.053245.17461@ox.com> Date: 14 Jun 91 05:32:45 GMT References: <9104221603.AA03955@iris40.nec.com> Sender: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) Reply-To: mg@godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au (Mike Gigante) Followup-To: comp.lang.scheme.c Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia. Lines: 41 Approved: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme.c Archive-name: languages/scheme/cscheme-sgi/1991-04-22 Archive: godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au:cscheme* [131.170.14.2] Original-posting-by: mg@godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au (Mike Gigante) Original-subject: Re: SGI Iris [available for FTP] Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) igor@research.nec.COM (Igor Rivin) writes: >Did anyone port Cscheme to this? If not, I may be persuaded to do the >work. Yes, it is available for Anon FTP from godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au It is a port of version 6.2.2 and includes a GL interface for *fast* 3D shaded, zbuffered graphics. I have included a number of sample gl-scheme examples. I did this work a few years ago, I got some assistance from Jeff Hultquist at Nasa Ames. In particular, he provided the undump code (via emacs) and pointed out the problem with 'clear' (both a termcap routine and a GL routine :-( I have a version 7 port in an intermediate state, but I haven't worked on it for a long time. Unfortunately, the foreign-function interface changed a lot b/n version 6 & 7 and this of course required work on the GL interfce... Mike Gigante Advanced Computer Graphics Centre Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Melbourne, Australia mg@godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au -- comp.archives file verification godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 922977 Mar 6 08:28 cscheme6.2.2.bin.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 2368159 Mar 6 08:30 cscheme6.2.2.src.tar.Z found cscheme-sgi ok godzilla.cgl.rmit.oz.au:cscheme*