On 11/11/15 6:50 PM, Tapley, Mark wrote:
On Nov 11, 2015, at 5:45 PM, Kyle Owen <[email protected]> wrote:
Good to know. Thanks for the confirmation! And you're running NeXTSTEP 3.3,
correct?
Correct.
The two MegaPixel displays I have are both functional with some burn in,
but they still seem pretty bright. However, one has a very apparent warble,
but it was getting better after leaving it on for a while. I'm sure it had
been a long time since it was powered up.
Mine looked unusably fuzzy when first turned on. I sighed and left it on, and
it has “cleaned up” remarkably. I’m somewhat curious what causes that. Warble
wasn’t much of a problem, but it seems pretty solid now.
You know about the Lighthouse Design suite of applications, right?
Presentation, spreadsheet, word processor, drawing program, etc.
http://download.ithinksw.com/lighthouse/
Don’t forget the license strings.
I no longer have NeXT hardware, but have a few applications with
licenses. Two are different versions of Design! from Lighthouse Design
and are on the website above. Two (Collagist and StayInTouch) are from
SmartSoft and I have not found them anywhere else. The SmartSoft web
page on their NeXT applications was last updated in 1995 and they
haven't responded to my e-mail asking about the license.
I have tried to sell then give these applications away on the NeXT
forums and got no takers.
I’m also very partial to WriteNow, if you are able to find a copy of it.
Licensing will be a *real* issue, but a version of Mathematica 3 will also run
on that system. No idea where you could possibly find a copy of that, but it’s
pretty cool and remarkably capable.
Licensing for Mathematica is stupid. Wolfram still wants money for
25-year-old software that runs on long unsupported hardware.
On a related topic, is there a browser that runs on Openstep 4.2 on
SPARC now? OmniWeb reports that its license is expired and exits on my
system.
alan
