I've been playing with the #WindowMaker version of #Debian recently, just to remember the old, good #NextSTEP, #OpenSTEP era. I used to have a #NeXTStation but I sold it locally for $300 just before I left US for Greece. It could probably fetch thousands on eBay, but I didn't want to deal with shipping such a heavy item.
Ah, I miss the old #SiliconValley. Back when there was actually room to innovate in ways that were revolutionary, and not just additive.
... somehow, I managed to install the wrong version of NeXTStep, and it also somehow works? How NeXTStep runs on a Pentium 2 Dixon and 440BX chipset is beyond me!
I've been playing around with NEXTStep with the Previous emulator! Really fun. Emulating a NextStation Nitro Color. After installing NEXTStep, I stumbled upon a large archive of software and been exploring it. Here's OmniWeb displaying the iNode Gateway. #retrocomputing#nextstep#emulation#openstep#protoweb#retro
Alright, here's a blog post with the UI configuration steps for VirtualBox 7.0 (on macOS, at least) to run #OPENSTEP 4.2. Combined with the Adafruit tutorial it links to, you should have all you need to easily get it running. https://codingitwrong.com/2024/01/08/openstep-vm