Hi all,
Does anyone know if there's a Barrier or Synergy client for NeXTSTEP? It'd be handy to be able to use a modern machine's keyboard / mouse with the cube once the machine has booted (I appreciate that a physical keyboard would still have to be connected to the cube).
https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
There's no solution that quite fits this bill yet. The closest things available are the QuokkaNeXT USB adapter (for using modern peripherals with a cube or slab)—check Rob's listing here (
https://www.ebay.com/itm/286367839932)—or using NXHost to display the NeXT machine's windows on another computer, which I explained a little bit of here (
https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=5996). There is a VNC viewer for NEXTSTEP but no server. Still hoping we can tempt
@jeffberg into writing a VNC server, although certainly a Barrier/Synergy client would require less of the API...
Yeah I've got a quokka on order from Alex which should be ideal.
I was just wondering about Barrier as I use that successfully to control my Octane from my PC, and it's a really good light-weight solution which saves having to break out the keyboard and mouse everytime I power on the SGI. I thought it might operate similarly well for the Next, but quokka will work ideally too assuming it functions with my Logitech usb keyboard / trackpad.