Hi Everyone. Just getting fired up on Black Hardware and Nextstep. I did a bit of work on Nextstations back in my grad school days, but apparently it made an impression enough on me to want to get back into it.
So far: Bought a mono nextstation from Blackhole Inc. I I have nothing bad to say. Everything arrived as promised.
The pre-installed Openstep 4.2 had a corrupted terminal.app. not good. Try getting anything going without a terminal. A few workarounds and I have got that working.
The lesson learned is this for all newbies: work out the bugs in a VM before messing with the Black Hardware. Everything you do on OS X or Windows is easy to fix. Not so much on an Nextstation.
Happy to be part of the community
Cheers
Lenz
Welcome to the forums. :)
As Nitro said, welcome to the forums.
How exactly did you get the corrupted app working? I have several corrupted apps on my system
Quote from: "dai_vernon"How exactly did you get the corrupted app working? I have several corrupted apps on my system
well, um. I acquired a nexstep 3.3 iso. Then I found this little chunk of code to mount the UFS volume under OS X using MacFuse:
http://www.osxbook.com/blog/2008/12/16/more-user-space-file-system-goodies/Miraculously it mounted the ISO on my desktop. I plucked out the Terminal.app, copied it to a floppy and copied it to the nexstation, repaired permissions and Viola - Terminal working again. Probably won't work for apps that have a lot of dependencies, but worked fine for this one.