Blender/gimp etc ported to IOS! -sort of-

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How to run blender on an iPad/iThing locally - no vnc or Internet needed!

Requirements:
A jail broken iThing with 4gB of free space
An Internet connection good enough to download 3.6gB of files.
Wifi (in order to ssh)
patience
Luck

Issues:
No hotkeys that involve two keys at once
No saving

Step one:
Add these repos to cydia:

Step two:
Download these files

On ithing: (from cydia)

  • Bochs for iPhone if you have an iPhone or bochs for iPad if you have an iPad
  • Windows 95 for bochs
  • iFile (this is shareware although cracked versions are available)
  • Openssh

On pc

  • Artist x Linux .iso file
  • Winscp

Step 3:
Start bochs and check windows 95 works on iThing, if it does not, this will probably not work on your iThing.

Step 4:
Ssh into your iPhone/iThing

Step 5:
Add a folder in the same directory as the win95 folder (in documents) called whatever you want, e.g. Linux or blendlinux

Step 6:
Transfer the artistx Linux .iso over into your blinux (blenderlinux as I like to call it) folder.

Step 7:
This is the tricky bit, you have to duplicate and modify the os.ini file from the windows 95 folder into your blinux folder and edit it. Someone has made a nice tutorial for this on YouTube, although it only half worked for me.
Http:\www.youtube.com/watch?v=skbiKejRFPs

Step 8:
Start Bochs

Step 9:
Select your blinux folder and log in.

Step 10:
You have blender on your iThing!

Thanks,
The Squidifier

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Anyone tried this?

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Why would you ?

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dunno, it just seemed appealing to have a copy of blender running on my ipad…

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Which you state will be:

Veeerrrrryyy slow
No hotkeys that involve two keys at once
Sounds like a recipe that will end with the ipad being thrown across the room in frustration. Result, a very expensive broken electronic gadget. Think I’ll pass.

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Aww Richard… I laughed out loud at your first response!

Surely ipad/android and blender would be better off with enhancing and adding value rather than genuinely running blender…

That camera toy for maya allowing an ipad to be used as a real camera in your virtual set for example…

pro tools has a mixing desk app taking advantage of the ipad as a control surface…

all actually usable enhancements! much better than an overambitious but ultimately useless feature!

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Very true, my internet has just reset now so am currently downloading the files, maybe it might be a bit faster than I originally hoped… Fingers crossed… :slight_smile:

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have tried recently and worked fine on iPad 2**

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I salute you sir. For doing it not because any sensible person would want to do so, but just because you can do it at all.

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You also have gimp and about 200 other programs but haven’t tried them yet…

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@Michael W - A cheap Cintiq? Hoping for N-Trig tablets!