Welcome to the famous Flint4 for SGI computers with Irix 5.3
Flint was the little brother of Flame for VFX, matte painting and video/film hollywood visual effect.
Created by Discreet Logic, Flint4 was designed for run on SGI workstation from 1993 like Extreme 
graphics, Elan or XZ with solid irixgl but without hardware texture capabilities.
Thanks to Ginzanix patch now we can explore and use this historical app.
If your SGI have Reality Engine gfx board or other hardware with texture graphic system you can try
Flame, the big brother of Flint.

With this file you find "CDROM" folder and "Patch" folder. This is the step by step guide to 
install and configure Flame4 for Irix.

1- Move "CDROM" folder to your root harddrive or "/".

2- Open terminal window and go to "CDROM" folder:

cd /CDROM

Use INSTALL script to install Flint4. Flint4 was designed for Irix 5.3 but if you have a superior IRIX 
like Irix 6.2 or 6.5 you can try to use my modified install script "INSTALL_IRIX6".

./INSTALL

3- When installation finish, copy "DL_license.dat" to "/usr/local/flexlm/licenses/". For now it works only
for lmhostID 69123456

4- Now you have a licensed Flint4 installed in your system, now you need logout and use Flint4 account.
When you login into Flint account you can init flint from terminal window using command "flint" but before
continue you need take some considerations.

- By default Flint installation disable desktop and other related daemons services for use irix interface.
Remember that Flint users usually buy the SGI comnputer only for use with Flint app solution.
Before restart system you can re-enable desktop services using this commands from terminal window.

chkconfig desktop on
chkconfig objectserver on

Maybe you need re-activate other services it depends of your IRIX version.

- With Flint software you need a framestore for work. You can use a file based framestore or use an external 
dedicated Stone+Wire raid system framestore.
For use the easy way is start with a filebased framestore in your harddisk. First you need define framestore editing
file "/usr/flint_4.4.1I/cfg/default.cfg". Locate FrameStore definition text area and define your file based framestore
and path, someone like this:

# Example for a Stone & Wire disk array
#FrameStore     /dev/swr00, "PAL"
# Example for a Logical Volume
#FrameStore     /dev/rdsk/lv0, "PAL"
# Example for a System disk
FrameStore     /FLINT.fs, "FlamePAL", 200
# Example for a External disk
#FrameStore     /dev/rdsk/dks1d3s7, "NTSC"

- 200 is the framestore size in Mb and "/FLINT.fs" is desired name and path.

-The first time you init Flint4 you need format framestore, for init framestore init with command "flint -v".
Once your framestore is initialized the next time you want start Flame you only need type command "flint".

-If you are using a different IRIX version than IRIX 5.3 you need rename Flint executable.
By default the flint app name is "flint_IRIX_5.3" if you are using IRIX 6.2 you need rename as "flint_IRIX_6.2",
for IRIX 6.5 rename as "flint_IRIX_6.5". Now Flint start using start script command "flint".
You can find Flint executable to rename in "/usr/flint_4.4.1I/bin".

Thanks to Ginzanix for the patch , Gijoe for ISO and all other SGUG users for contribute to recover IRIX software make it
usable and share.

