You know what ever computer needs? DOOM. Do you know what I couldn’t find? DOOM for the IBM RS/6000, but that’s not surprising. These machines were never meant for gaming, but that’s doesn’t mean you can’t do it. If you like pain anyway IBM’s RS/6000 series of machines were the backbone of businesses for years. Intended as a replacement to IBM’s PS/2 line of computers, these machines were intended to help break the Intel/Windows monopoly with the new PowerPC architecture, in corporation with Apple and Motorola. However, those lofty dreams were never to be with the failure of Workspace OS, Copland and more, and the general demise of workstation class machines as a whole. What was left was a very expensive machine that only officially supported IBM’s own variant of UNIX, known as AIX. AIX has a reputation for being an exceptionally quirky system, and well, that’s a *well earned* reputation. In this extra long NCommander special, we’re going to explore AIX, discuss the RS/6000 Model 150 43p I’m running it on. Throughout this process, I’d explore the trouble in getting bash to build, getting neofetch to work, then the battle for high colors, SDL, and more.
Chapters: 00:00:00
– Introduction 00:02:10
– IBM’s RISC Station/6000 00:07:29
– AIX 00:16:20
– AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications 00:32:53
– Road to DOOM 00:46:24
– Making Noise 01:04:17
– Conclusions
