Brilliant stuff. I wanna run NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP on a Pi....where are the instructions for that? I've asked in the Emulation section, but everyone danced around it. 😢
Quote from: cooltr6 on July 25, 2024, 03:51:48 AMBrilliant stuff. I wanna run NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP on a Pi....where are the instructions for that? I've asked in the Emulation section, but everyone danced around it. 😢
A Pi 3B+ can run NeXTSTEP but there is the system overhead, the thing is you need the system overhead as it has drivers for the WiFi and ethernet port.
Maybe the emulation is building a skeleton Raspberry PI linux kernel which only includes the bare minimum?
When I used NetBSD 2+ years ago on the PI it only had support for the Ethernet port.
I'm guessing 2 bitplane grey scale is faster than full colour but I know a lot of people would start moaning about that.
But if it became very successful Adobe and Patone might step in wanting their pound of flesh for postscript display and Patone colours.
I think you have to compile Previous from source with GCC as there is no package available?
Quote from: cooltr6 on July 25, 2024, 03:51:48 AMBrilliant stuff. I wanna run NeXTSTEP or OPENSTEP on a Pi....where are the instructions for that? I've asked in the Emulation section, but everyone danced around it. 😢
Mark a.k.a.
@berskyboy is a member here so maybe he can help out with instructions for getting things running on the Pi. Also check out this thread (
https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=4441.msg26097#msg26097) for some tips.
Maybe 486/Pentium Nextstep is easier to emulate instead black hardware because of driver kit? By programming customer drivers you can then redirect calls directly to the hardware although the NeXT source has also been leaked so you could do the same again with NeXT custom ROMS which get redirected.
You can run these images if you want to see what it's like.
Built with Buildroot
SDL2 direct to framebuffer (no X)
Boot to your Motorola NS/OS image
NFS Client support
UFS filesystem support
http://redwood.juddy.org/redwood.rpi2/https://github.com/itomato/redwood