Demos on the NeXT?
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Are there any demos made for the NeXT-Computer anyone knows of?
hmm..didnt read the wiki yet, but iirc the NeXT was just another PPC.
ok, gotta read that wiki-article now i guess ;)
ok, gotta read that wiki-article now i guess ;)
68030/40 and a dsp, plus high res display output. Sounds actually quite interesting. I read somewhere that the UI was vector based instead of bitmap too, could be more interesting still if there's hardware acceleration for that, but the wiki page doesn't mention it (as far as i got down the page at least :)
Never heard of any demos for it though.
Never heard of any demos for it though.
ok, been completely unaware of these computers.
always thought of PPC when heard/read about it.
but with the limited amounts sold, i dont think there have been done any demos for it.
also the thing about that magneto-optical storage-solution...even if someone did a demo for it once, its rot by now, haha.
always thought of PPC when heard/read about it.
but with the limited amounts sold, i dont think there have been done any demos for it.
also the thing about that magneto-optical storage-solution...even if someone did a demo for it once, its rot by now, haha.
£5 says it had the first browser demo ever
thats because the WWW got invented on a NeXT :)
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Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT Computer in 1991 to create the first web browser and web server;[38][39] accordingly, NeXT was instrumental in the development of the World Wide Web.
WWW should have been Browser, typo ;)
Yeah, those must have been the most underrated (unknown) computers ever. Maybe partly because of the price tag, but esp. the os had revolutionary features for that time built in. Would love to get my hands on one of these, but unfortunately they are quite hard to get.
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NeXT Computer (the original 68030 cube) was a high end workstation that was manufactured between 1988 - 1990. Back then it was a very expensive machine as a complete system would start at $6500 (in 1988 dollars). The machine is a 1 foot cube magnesium case that houses the computer. At the time, its performance was impressive, with a Motorola 68030 CPU running at a screaming 25Mhz, a dedicated floating point CPU, and a digital signal processor built into the system. NeXT cubes featured a magneto-optical drive that stored a whopping 256 Megabytes (by comparison, high end Mac systems at the time might have featured a 20 Megabyte hard drive.) In its day, this was the "Ferrari" of desktop systems!
Here you can find lot's of beautiful pics of the OS and the Machine.
I just checked up as I'm sure there's a boxed copy in the loft here at work..
It did run on old PowerMac hardware, AND wikipedia says there was an x86 build.
It did run on old PowerMac hardware, AND wikipedia says there was an x86 build.
Btw, NeXT might be dead in name, but it's still very much around.
In the end apple bought NeXT (which was the company steve jobs started after being kicked out of apple, and the reason he ended up back at apple). The OS became a large part of Mac OS X, and eventually the base for iOS too. There are tons of APIs like NSString - NextStep String - still in heavy use today. :)
In the end apple bought NeXT (which was the company steve jobs started after being kicked out of apple, and the reason he ended up back at apple). The OS became a large part of Mac OS X, and eventually the base for iOS too. There are tons of APIs like NSString - NextStep String - still in heavy use today. :)
yep, iPhone programming was what got my attention to NeXTStep in the first place. :D
Cool, didn't knew that the OS runs also on "regular" hw. Gotta give em a shot then.
Cool, didn't knew that the OS runs also on "regular" hw. Gotta give em a shot then.
some demoscene-related trivia:
(..and then compiled for DOS)
so if NeXT was a good machine for gameprogramming and rendering - it should do demos too! :D
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The games Doom, with its level (WAD) editor, and Quake, with its respective level editor, were developed by id Software on NeXT machines.
(..and then compiled for DOS)
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CG for the Ghost in the Shell movie were made on NeXT-Step Machines
so if NeXT was a good machine for gameprogramming and rendering - it should do demos too! :D
You can see some NeXT apps running into def leppard video let's get rocked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygiTv7tEYm0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygiTv7tEYm0
Mum tries out NeXTSTEP 3.3 (not my Mum)
68030 + 56001 DSP, hmm sounds like Falcon to me ;)
falcon hipsters!
This reminds me instantly of the Phaleon demo by NeXT (later also known as Defence Force), more a NeXT demo on Atari ST though - but the intro of the megademo is a great homage to the system nonetheless. A video is here.
I remember using one in 1992, think it was the 030 version. I was amazed how slow it redrawed the screen.
Of course I had Amiga for a long time before that, so it wasnt very amazing :D
Of course I had Amiga for a long time before that, so it wasnt very amazing :D
