Here is a demo showing how such software produces a human voice.

#NeXT #NEXTSTEP #NeXTstation #NeXTCube #OS #OpenStep #DisplayPostScript #PostScript #GUI #UNIX#apple #macos #mac

Found interesting old software, called SPASM, by Perry Cook. It's a Synthesis of the Singing Voice, Using a Waveguide Articulatory, Vocal Tract Model.

Detailed PDF included: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~prc/SingingSynth.html

#vintagecomputing #vintage #software #nextstep #apple #stevejobs #macos #apps #retrocomputing

Googling around I found this nice HTMLified version for the #NeXTstep 3.3 developer docs, if you ever need to lookup the `NXBrowser` or `NXBundle` API's: https://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/

Trying out an OPENSTEP native installation on an i386 platform, I'm reminded that the EIDE drivers in the 4.2 beta diskette (EIDE driver v4.03) have better compatibility with the built-in IDE controllers on many motherboards. If you get IDE-related kernel panics during installation, try using the EIDE drivers from the 4.2 beta drivers disk instead of that from the standard drivers disk.

#openstep #nextstep #i386

Focusing again on the next step:

Because it’s the only one I can take right now.
Not the one I regret.
Not the one I dream of.
Just this one.
Right now.
It holds all my momentum, all my courage, all my becoming.
Step.
That’s the story.

#NextStep #Guidance

Cannes Critics’ Week Unveils Next Step Jury, Expands Filmmaker Initiative for 2025
#Variety #Global #News #CannesCriticsWeek #NextStep #StefanoCentini

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/cannes-critics-week-next-step-jury-1236378138/

Does this work? I’d make it look better too.

#openstep #nextstep #stone

@mtconleyuk @Benhm3 @maxleibman yeah, ask @fuchsiii how many hours she invested into making a date & time picker across all #Apple's still maintained OSes that doesn't look like some #X11 on #NeXTstep-style uglyness!

My first official non-student job was developing custom (mission-critical as they called it) applications with/for #NeXTSTEP. This plaque is a souvenir from that era.
#ThrowbackThursday

@sven I wished #Apple.would.release proper documentation re: #3rdPartyOS support or at least have some good way to boot stuff that isn't their bespoke #Darwin / #NextStep +#BSD distro aka. #macOS.

Thinking of NEXTSTEP this morning...I'd guess many aren't aware of the unusual color display arrangement.

The NeXTstation, which was the first "affordable" color solution for NEXTSTEP, has a 16-bit framebuffer, but instead of rendering the desktop in 65,536 colors (as per Windows or Mac hardware, say), it rendered in 12-bit color with 4-bits of alpha channel (transparency).

That means it had a palette of 4096 colors, with all colors available at once on the display (not like, say, the Amiga or Apple IIgs with a 4096 color palette, but video modes with a small subset of those colors available (yes, yes, HAM mode excluded). Additionally, anything on the screen had 16 levels of opacity available.

It's interesting to see in person, on the actual hardware (especially on a good LCD display). With dithering, it looks very close to 24-bit truecolor.

(The NeXT Dimension color board for the Cube allowed 24-bit color with 8-bits alpha, but that was not so frequently used -- less so than most NeXT hardware even...)

But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...

#NeXT #NEXTSTEP #NeXTstation #NeXTCube #OS #OpenStep #DisplayPostScript #PostScript #GUI #UNIX #MC68K #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computinghistory #SteveJobs #tech

@bitnacht Good point, re: the busy bee.

As for the spinning disc (or "beachball"), it got its start in NEXTSTEP as a greyscale spinning magneto-optical disc rendering indicating the system is busy / data is loading, which was seen quite often on the early NeXT Cube, as it came with no HD but only an MO drive, and it used that drive for _swap_, if you can imagine...

That spinning disc became color when NEXTSTEP gained a color display on later hardware, and from there it evolved into the spinning "beachball" we know today (macOS being structurally based upon and evolved from NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP).

EDIT: Oh, I think I misread - you are talking about the busy mouse pointer icon in Windows, I think. I'm not sure of its specific history. Apologies.

#macOS #NeXT #NEXTSTEP #GUI #icons #screenshots #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Emacs 19 running on OPENSTEP 4.2. Emulated on 86box.

Note that OPENSTEP 4.2's installation CD comes with emacs 18 which can only be used in the terminal. The one with gui support can be found in https://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=NeXT/Cube-Station/OPENSTEP/Apps/EMACS

#Emacs #NeXTSTEP #86box

Operating System Emulationen of historical Mac OS, Mac OS X or NeXTStep from the 1980s, 1990s, early 2000s, or your own custom versions of this systems, as a Webapp in your Browser:

https://infinitemac.org

by @mihaip - https://blog.persistent.info

#GUI #nostalgia #timecapsule #macos #nextstep #osx #aqua

Another #GlobalTalk goal achieved, connected an emulated NeXT Cube running CAPer v8 (via Previous) to my AppleTalk zone by way of a MacIP gateway running on a Raspberry Pi (via MacIp.net). Soon I will be serving a public folder, so peeps in this internetwork can see this rare server icon on their Mac desktops. #NexTSTEP

SHUYA OKINO + ATN

https://mobilisons.ch/events/749f791b-cc7c-4327-8a64-38187232ed1b

@rl_dane @NanoRaptor https://www.openpa.net/nextstep_pa-risc.html

NeXTSTEP on a 712/100XC is quite fast. For some special video modes of the HP 712/715, NeXTSTEP provided specific support, e.g. the 4096-color-virtual-million-color-modes.

#parisc #nextstep

DJ Jeyon

https://mobilisons.ch/events/abe402f3-918f-45a1-9c80-422a421faee0

Sebastiao Loopes

https://mobilisons.ch/events/fb9eb976-037a-448b-aa03-f8fde4345f24

Emel

https://mobilisons.ch/events/3f640424-5c31-41ef-9df6-53f188451d4a