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
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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/
www.nextop.deNeXTstep 3.3 - Developer Documentation
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/
Variety · Cannes Critics' Week Unveils Next Step Jury, Expands Filmmaker Program
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@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!
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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...
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@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.
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
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:
infinitemac.orgInfinite MacA classic Mac loaded with everything you'd want.
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
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@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.
www.openpa.netNeXTSTEP on HP 9000 PA-RISC Computers – OpenPA.netNeXTSTEP was a Unix operating system from the late 1980s based on Mach microkernel with an advanced GUI and supported 32-bit PA-RISC computers in the 1994 3.3 release.
TIL via the diagram in this post that original DOOM was developed on NeXT machines.
https://fabiensanglard.net/fastdoom/index.html
Wikipedia:
> Doom was written largely in the C programming language, with a few elements in assembly language. The developers used NeXT computers running the NeXTSTEP operating system.
fabiensanglard.netWhy fastDOOM is fast
»Die Kooperation von NeXT und SunSoft mit dem Ziel der Festlegung eines offenen Standards für objektorientierte Entwicklungs- und Betriebssysteme auf der Basis von NEXTSTEP wird die Verbreitung objektorientierter Technologie deutlich beschleunigen.«
Quelle: Offene Systeme, Band 3 Nr. 1, Februar 1994
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I am writing the second part of my blog post on man-pages and I am trying to get to the bottom of the origin of the MANPAGER variable. It seems like it may have appeared as a modification to the 4.3BSD man command in NeXTSTEP some time between 1987 and 1989. It didn't have PAGER because the import of 4.3BSD-Tahoe to the code base didn't happen until 1989.
Does anybody have any firsthand knowledge about this? Did it maybe show up somewhere else before NeXTSTEP?
This week, I wrote about InfiniteMac, a brower-based emulator for running classic Mac OS and NeXTStep operating systems.
Rocket Yard · InfiniteMac: A Browser-Based Journey into classic MacOS and NeXTStep Operating SystemsReliving the computing nostalgia from a bygone era of the Mac can be a challenge. With InfiniteMac, it’s easy.
