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Author of the post/creator of the site here. To save everyone the click, NeXTStep 3.3 is probably the best release to try out: https://infinitemac.org/1994/NeXTSTEP%203.3 (it was the last release that ran well on the original NeXT hardware, OPENSTEP 4.0 and later were mostly focused on Intel support).

If you'd like to play the NeXT version of DOOM and explore a few other apps, they're in the "Infinite HD" drive (you can get to different drives by clicking on the computer icon in the Workspace file viewer).

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Yep, that tracks. I used to have a NeXTCube on my desk and tried to hold on to it (and 3.3) for dear life, but sadly the research institute I was in at the time didn’t allow it. Thank you so much for grafting previous into your wonderful site, I’ve been having a blast with it on idle moments.

Yep. That’s the version I run on my “Turbo Slab”.

It’s always kind of amazing what a 33 MHz 68040 was capable of whenever I fire it up and fool around.

Boy, I’d love nothing more than for some team at Apple to take the NS 3.3 source code and port it to an RPi 400.

They could even punt on the multi core aspect. Just port the drivers and get the frame buffer to work with the raw DPS server.

Do with NS what the Squeak team did with Smalltalk.

That would be such a wonder. I’d buy that for a dollar.

> I’d buy that for a dollar.

They even throw in a giant picture of Steve Jobs in your default mail inbox for free.

I dont know if it's just me but the way mouse acceleration "works" is driving me bonkers.

+1 on this. only thing that was bugging me on this glorious thing.

You can reduce the mouse speed a bit using Preferences.app.

The fundamental issue is that there’s two acceleration curves being applied (the guest OS’s and NeXTStep’s). I experimented with the unadjustedMovement option (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/req...) but it didn’t seem to help (and if anything, made things feel even harder to control)

It was also the one with surviving documentation, https://www.nextop.de/

Take your copy while it is still around.

Great Website by the way.

I love getting to play with these OSes that I never got to touch 20 years ago, so thanks for this! Now that you've got NeXTStep, have you considered Rhapsody?

Hey there, this is an off topic question but I recently picked up a Next computer (the slab) with a monitor. I am a complete newbie in this world and just getting my feet wet. Did the community ever find a solution to the 'dim monitor' issue? Thanks for this slick release.

Any hope of getting more software onto these? I'd love to play around with some ancient versions of proto-XCode.

That would be Project Builder and Interface Builder. Project Builder was kind of a graphical make tool and Interface Builder was the real star of the show, it was the graphical user interface builder. And there was Edit for source code editing.

There were sold as separate product, NeXTStep Developer that had all the development tools, but if you bought the education version of NeXTstep the developer tools came bundled.

The Developer CD for the 3.3 release is in the CD-ROM drawer, you should be able to mount it and install IB and PB.

Besides the sibling comment, that was kind of Smalltalk like, in the sense how code navigation and code editing was implemented.

You can also get a glimpse of it on the famous NeXT vs Sun commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg

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