Hi,
While doing some tidying in the mes^Wappartement, I found my original SVM (Science et Vie Micro, popular french computer magazine, still going strong today) issue from 1989 heralding NeXT coming to France - with a bit of hurry, as NeXT arrived 2 years later, in fact.
This article is quite detailed and gives a good account of early NeXT cube and NeXTStep capabilities ; pictures show the 0.8 or 0.9 rev of the system (blackhole bin). Those are standard, press issued pictures, easily found elsewhere.
If there is interest, I could scan it to be included in some archive but I don't really know whom to ask, and where to send it ; plus, I think this article is still under copyright, and I don't know how this issue is handled here.
Please let me know about this.
And, no, I won't part with my magazine :wink:
scan scan scan scan :P
Be cool to have a translated copy for us lazy butts that only know english :]
btw, send Nitro an email about it. He holds the keys to the archive here.
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Be cool to have a translated copy for us lazy butts that only know english :]
btw, send Nitro an email about it. He holds the keys to the archive here.
Hum... this is quite a long article, and I'm a bit overworked already + I'm planning my wedding (yes, an almost married geek, who would have thought !?), so it will be more a matter of weeks for me to write a translation, rather than days. Leaving aside the fact that I'm not a native english speaker (as you certainly had guessed already), so what output I will come to will most certainly need quite a bit of tidying afterward by a more proficient pen than mine. But I'll do my best. I have a couple hours commuting everyday, so I may try to have something useful done in that time frame.
As soon as I've got a rough version ready, I'll mail Nitro, as you suggested.
Thanks,
oh, well, if it is a huge article. Don't worry about it. I can work my way through it :)
By the way, your English is very good. Probably better than mine at times ;)
Hi all,
I have this article "NEXT REVELE A la découverte d'un ordinateur prodigieux"
pages 48 to 58 from Science & Vie Micro N°64 Juillet-Aout 1989
When I have some time I scan it for you :wink:
oh no I am to "faignant" :lol:
look here you found all scan online ...
http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=48&page=4JB
Yes, it's exactly that issue ; the one that had me lusting for NeXTStep ever since I read it, and a dream I can fulfil some 20 years later...
Note the cardboard cube mockup on the cover, I believe there was no actual system to take a picture of in France at the time.
It's a good thing the scans are available, that way I'll be able to center my aim solely on the translation.
Don't miss the Jet Fighter flight simulator review (page 125) ; there are gems in it, like "This time, it's for sure : JF nearly has it all ! Exceptional animation, with bearly any jerk ; filled-faces 3D graphisms of stunning realism ; etc." (we're speaking of an ega game here, 16 colors !). :D
This message just to let people expecting the translation know that I've done the main article, already typed half of it, and still need to work on the inlaid frames. Things are pacing slowly, but I expect to be through by week's end. :roll: hopefully :roll:
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Well, looks like I slipped again :oops: and I've a very busy week ahead, so... I swear to do my best :wink: but without any promise concerning the date. Sorry.
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