Hi,
A while back, somebody send me a DVD, an archive of all his NeXT Software, archives and Download. The DVD is dying (read error) so I made some archives that I want to share.
Apps (1.3 Gb)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N9Z63RSRSome Docs (PDF, NeXTZine)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TVQK2525More to come: Soundfiles, System, and disk image of SQL Sybase, Mathematica, Lotus Improv...
Some Soundfiles:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FU4ULYC0Mathematica, Improv, Sybase,...
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OBEPSDJOSparc Software
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y1E2ZN68I also have something wich look like an archive of ftp-Peak. 458Mb of system (some iso inside). don't know if I can put it here.
Next to come: video software for NeXTStep.
nice! thanks :)I forgot about megaupload. I think I'll post my video dvd ISO there.
Next; Video Software
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VW6A5031Please, let me know if there something interesting here !
There is quite a bit of software there that is already in the file archive however those disk images are really nice.
How do you mount the "diskimage" files?
I don't know how to mount them but in the file archive we have the app to dump the images back to disk.
That would have worked just fine, if I only had 2.88 MB floppies to restore them on. Unfortunately, I have never had the pleasure of owning such media.
Last archive: System
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UJISE5YDdrivers, Iso, tools...
I rememebr that I had restored Image disk, maybe using a tool named 'Disk Copy II'. I will check on my NSLab today.
Yes, you need ED disk. I found one box of ten, some years ago.
Two more CD images: Nebula CD 1 & 2. Not posted by me, found on another forum.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=EXJM3A8Dhttp://www.megaupload.com/?d=Q4C5WMOGFew thing can be found also on Macintosh Garden (
http://www.macintoshgarden.org/), a very good site for old Macintosh.[/url]
Quote from: "iDork"That would have worked just fine, if I only had 2.88 MB floppies to restore them on. Unfortunately, I have never had the pleasure of owning such media.
I haven't looked as the floppy images....
Are you sure they are all 2.88mb? Half the ones I've had with commercial software on them were not 2.88mb disks. They were normal 1.44mb disks.
Quote from: "helf"Quote from: "iDork"That would have worked just fine, if I only had 2.88 MB floppies to restore them on. Unfortunately, I have never had the pleasure of owning such media.
I haven't looked as the floppy images....
Are you sure they are all 2.88mb? Half the ones I've had with commercial software on them were not 2.88mb disks. They were normal 1.44mb disks.
I'm pretty sure some of them are 2.88MB (2,949,166 bytes to be exact). On top of that they don't appear to be "raw" dumps, but stored in some proprietary format (DiskCopy II I assume). Even the 1.44MB images are in the same format (a little larger file that a raw dump). They don't seem to be compressed or encrypted in any way because you can read the names of the stored files, but I can't clearly identify any type of header. I tried removing the beginning of the file, leaving just enough bytes for a 1.44MB image, but they still won't mount. I guess I'll have to do something more complex than that to trick VMware into mounting them :wink:.
I've just found another DVD. NexStep 3.2, 3.3; OpenStep 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 User Editions and developer edition and something that look like Windows Programs, with an installer: OpenStep Enterprise toolkit for WIndows, it seem.
I think I can't put this one on the net, but the last part OpenStep Enterprise for Windows may be interesting for someone ?
Take the hand, also on my NS 3.3 and OpenStep orignals CD I lost a while back.
Quote from: "jvernet"
I think I can't put this one on the net.
When NeXTStep will be considered "abandonware" and we will can put images on Internet freely?
The short and long answer...... never. This
http://www.rhapsodyos.org/misc/dont_ask/piracy.html page will give you all the information you need to know.
Also just check out the rest of his site if you really are interested in Next or Rhapsody/Mac OS X Server 1.x for more than just a passing fancy, or even if you are just here to browse it is still a good site to read.
Thank you for the link.
Really great stuff! I've been looking for Mathematica and Sybase for quite a while now. Now I will have to take some time and try to get them running again.
Thanks a lot!
Oh, BTW I'm still looking for the Blue Moon Rendering Tools (BMRT) package.
Is it part of one of the other archives you posted?
Hi
I'm trying to unpack the "disk Image" image, but I haven't find ot how to do it, is there any tool to restore this to a CD under linux amd then installed in my Black HW
Thanks
I did not succeed to install Mathematica so far.
Two things look suspicious: the length of the .diskimage files is 46 bytes too big, and the file Mathematica.tar contains 10kb of null bytes :shock:
Either this is from the corrupt part of the source DVD, or this file is just not needed for installation?
Anyhow, I tried stripping the first 46 bytes form the diskimage files, but that did not help. Is there any chance to get hold of the "Disk Copy II" program? Google was not really helpful on this :-(
I'm in the same dilemma, I ned the Disk copy II to try Mathematia and the other software
Seems that 2.88 mb floppies do not work properly in a virtualized installation (at least with vmware).
So the only solution would be to find someone with working hardware drives to write the images to floppy and then copy the contents to a tar archive.
Come on, there must be someone out there with a Mathematica installer package... 8)
Quote from: "aragon"Seems that 2.88 mb floppies do not work properly in a virtualized installation (at least with vmware).
So the only solution would be to find someone with working hardware drives to write the images to floppy and then copy the contents to a tar archive.
Come on, there must be someone out there with a Mathematica installer package... 8)
I got the Black HW, but not the floppy disks and the Copy Disk II,
I think the floppy images might have been made with DiskMaker.app by SmartSoft. I found a demo copy on the NOVA CDROM, but the demo only allows you to write out a demo floppy image. But its all academic for me because I don't have any 2.88 floppies and probably never will.
Brian
PS: I would be willing to purchase a legal (original) copy of Mathematica for NeXT from someone if they would be willing to part with it and the disks still work.
I believe Black Hole, Inc. still sells Mathematica for NeXTSTEP. I contacted them, but I didn't get any replies after my second e-mail. They should have ver. 3 at least (I think there was some problem with ver. 4 - bad media or something).
I didn't remember exactly how I did these image. It's with an NextStep app. I will try to power up my NSLab to find what I used. It's, sure, an NextStep app.
Quote from: "aragon"Seems that 2.88 mb floppies do not work properly in a virtualized installation (at least with vmware).
So the only solution would be to find someone with working hardware drives to write the images to floppy and then copy the contents to a tar archive.
Come on, there must be someone out there with a Mathematica installer package... 8)
I have (I made these disks, not orignals, but made from Disk Images, made with a NextStep tool).
This sounds great! Could you copy the disks contents to a tar archive and upload the archive, please?
The tools used to make disk image is DiskCopy II v0.9 beta, from Urs Gubser.
I'm curently rebuilding the real disk from images, I will try to make a .tar of them.
Hi jvernet,
thanks! That's great!
BTW: would you mind uploading the DiskImage tool as well? It seems to be hidden in the depths of the internet beyond Google's reach :wink:
Link will be posted in MP.
Disk (2 disks) contain only one Mathematica.pkg.
I think that, to install, you will need to put them on a Volume, labelled Mathematica_Disk_.1 and Mathematica_Disk_.2
Link to Disk Copy II:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U8K1DCH1But it can be downloaded on next-ftp.peak.org
If some have disk to save (and to share ;) ) that's the right time !
Hey, thanks a lot!!!
I will give this a try later on and let you know if it worked.
If you are looking for something in particular, let me know, I'd be glad to help you out in return!
Ok, I managed to join the files into a working installer package. Basically, I just joined the .Z.1 and .Z.2 files into one .Z file and deleted the .dir* files.
Unfortunately, this Mathematica version is not for Intel, but for 68k processors :(
Looks like I have to continue my quest...
Nevertheless, thanks for the effort! I really appreciate that!
Quote from: "aragon"Ok, I managed to join the files into a working installer package. Basically, I just joined the .Z.1 and .Z.2 files into one .Z file and deleted the .dir* files.
Unfortunately, this Mathematica version is not for Intel, but for 68k processors :(
Looks like I have to continue my quest...
Nevertheless, thanks for the effort! I really appreciate that!
how did you joint the files?
I want to try as I have a cube to test
You can join them with the command
cat Mathematica.tar.Z.1 Mathematica.tar.Z.2 > Mathematica.tar.Z.
Then delete the tar.Z.1 file from the Mathematica.pkg folder and replace it with the .tar.Z file. Delete the .dir* files and copy the .last file from the Disk 2 package.
If you have problems, I can upload the package I created.
Quote from: "aragon"You can join them with the command
cat Mathematica.tar.Z.1 Mathematica.tar.Z.2 > Mathematica.tar.Z.
Then delete the tar.Z.1 file from the Mathematica.pkg folder and replace it with the .tar.Z file. Delete the .dir* files and copy the .last file from the Disk 2 package.
If you have problems, I can upload the package I created.
wow many thanks, do you mind to upload the file, did test in this way, but not sure why didn't work
Thanks :D
Does anyone have a backup of those files?
Quote from: "jvernet"Hi,
Apps (1.3 Gb) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N9Z63RSR
Some Docs (PDF, NeXTZine) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TVQK2525
More to come: Soundfiles, System, and disk image of SQL Sybase, Mathematica, Lotus Improv...
Quote from: "paradox"Does anyone have a backup of those files?
Quote from: "jvernet"Hi,
Apps (1.3 Gb) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=N9Z63RSR
Some Docs (PDF, NeXTZine) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TVQK2525
More to come: Soundfiles, System, and disk image of SQL Sybase, Mathematica, Lotus Improv...
Not even me: it was on my Old died G4....
JV