There is Previous, which is a nearly complete NeXT emulator (including SCSI) - it will emulate all the different variants (NeXT Computer, NeXT Cube, NeXTstation, NeXTstation Color, NeXTstation Turbo, NeXTstation TurboColor, NeXT Cube Turbo). It won't emulate NeXTdimension, and Ethernet emulation is currently flakey. I think most other things work pretty well. Not quite industrial strength yet, it crashes a bit, at least for me, but the developed has been making progress at breakneck speed, so an industrial strength version can't be far off now.
But of course it's all run within a VM, whereas what I was proposing below is an emulation layer at the level of an individual executable, so it can co-exist within a single environment like PowerPC and Intel apps can on Mac OS X under Rosetta (at least until 10.6). On 20 Nov 2015, at 00:34, Gregory Casamento wrote: > There is a NeXT emulator in MESS. It is currently not fully working. I > believe the SCSI chip that NeXT used which is the issue since it was > proprietary. > > You do currently need an image of a next hard drive > > GC > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 14:11 Dr Tomaž Slivnik <[email protected]> wrote: > At least in theory it seems to me that e M680x0 emulator could be written, > with libraries implementing the 680x0 NeXTSTEP 3.x frameworks being replaced > with a translation layer which could be run in native code, implementing the > NeXTstep frameworks on top of GnuStep. FreeBSD, at least, also provides a > mechanism for installing handlers to support new binary format types. > > Then you could run all the NeXTSTEP apps intermingled with GnuStep native > apps. > > I don't know just how hard this would be to do in practice, and what the > biggest obstacle would be (mapping 680x0 Display Postscript calls to GnuStep > primitives? I'm just guessing, I have no idea), but maybe it could be a fun > project for someone looking for something interesting to do. > > On 19 Nov 2015, at 18:30, Gregory Casamento wrote: > > > It won't. Lotus Improv was written using NeXTSTEP3.x. The > > frameworks changed a lot between that and OpenStep. It wouldn't work > > without a significant porting effort even if we could get the source. > > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Adam S <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Anyone know if Lotus Improv would run/work on GNUStep? > >> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Gregory Casamento > > GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant > > http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com > > http://ind.ie/phoenix/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > > >
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