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Mihai Parparita

I’ve expanded Infinite Mac to cover NeXT operating systems, with the help of the Previous emulator. See infinitemac.org/?filter=next for all releases between 1988 and 1997, and blog.persistent.info/2024/03/i for tidbits about the porting work and other site updates.

And to keep things in the spirit, you can use the Daydream/Darkmatter emulator to run System 7 on the emulated NeXT hardware and so have a replica of one of the more esoteric combos of the early 90s.

@mihaip Wow! This is amazing! Thank you!

@mihaip Awesome! One idea to make exporting data more natural would be to have some form of virtual printer, i.e. you print and the browser download some image file.

@thias @mihaip You might be able to get NeXT to make a PostScript file and download that?

@thias for the System 7 and up Mac emulators there’s an “The Outside World” drive that lets you import and export files. Would be nice to do something like that for NeXT - Previous has a built-in NFS server (that I have not explored yet) which allows for file sharing.

@mihaip for the Mac side, you could set up Print2Pict as a default printer that spools into the outside world.

@mihaip this is great nostalgia and important to have it curated for future generations!

@mihaip I love this, thank you so much for doing this. I tried out 1.0a and played around. The NeXT came with such amazing contents and apps out of the box, like Shakespeare and Mathematica. It really was my unobtainable dream computer when it came out and it still holds much appeal.

@mihaip this is excellent. i've enjoyed previous but it's tricky to set up, and nextstep deserves to be experienced by so many more people than it has been