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Hardware / MegaPixel Display N4000A Quest...

Last post by nickzinn - Apr 11, 2026, 06:14 PM

I have a MegaPixel Display N4000A (manufactured 1991), that I have lightly used since I picked it up in 1999 (loading dock of Moore building at UPenn).   I recently started getting back into the NeXT scene and it has developed this white fringing outside of the display image.  This was only after a recent weekend of using the computer.  Oddly adjusting the brightness changes the white fringe but doesn't actually remove it, even when brightness is all the way down.  It doesn't seem like burn in, because it is outside of the display area.  Is this a sign of the dreaded NeXT monitor death or is there something I can do fix it?

Thanks in advance!

#2

Off Topic / Porting Mac OS X to the Ninten...

Last post by wmlive - Apr 10, 2026, 02:14 PM

Quoting the introduction: »In this post, I'll share how I ported the first version of Mac OS X, 10.0 Cheetah, to the Nintendo Wii. If you're not an operating systems expert or low-level engineer, you're in good company; this project was all about learning and navigating countless "unknown unknowns". Join me as we explore the Wii's hardware, bootloader development, kernel patching, and writing drivers - and give the PowerPC versions of Mac OS X a new life on the Nintendo Wii.«

Full write-up of the developer's amazing endeavour: bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html
Accompanying Hacker News thread with some commentary referring to NeXTSTEP: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691730

The amazing part is that this guy went so far as to write new Mac OS X drivers (SD card, framebuffer, etc.) required to operate the Nintendo Wii.

Having managed to install and run OPENSTEP on a Frankenpad T61, albeit without network access, I'd wish someone similarily capable would create some network and PCMCIA drivers for the T6x Thinkpad generation to enable full use of its hardware capabilities.

#3

Software / Re: Programmatically Controlli...

Last post by tygre - Apr 09, 2026, 03:23 AM

Hi all,

Just to share with you the first working version of NeXTModRadio!

It can download an LHA archive from Aminet, extract it, find the first module file, and play it with Paula.

It can be found in NeXTModRadio.app. It needs the lha command available (which can be put in /usr/local/bin) and /tmp/ to be readable/writable by the current user. Of course, it needs Paula to be installed

I'll be happy to get any feedback on its (limited) use and my implementation.

Cheers!

#4

Software / Re: LatinByrdIII community lic...

Last post by ptek - Apr 08, 2026, 07:51 AM

Thanks had to use web.archive.org to download it with the English Readme.

https://web.archive.org/web/20051219201607/http://www.noir.net/sss/LatinByrd.IIIv7.NIHS.b.tar.gz
https://web.archive.org/web/20051219185943/http://www.noir.net/sss/LatinByrd.IIIv7.README
https://web.archive.org/web/20061110063513/http://www.noir.net/sss/LatinByrd.IIIv7.LISEZMOI
https://web.archive.org/web/20070912115008/http://www.noir.net/sss/LatinByrd.IIIv7.LIESMICH

#5

General Discussion / Re: List of NeXT related resou...

Last post by Rhetorica - Apr 07, 2026, 12:31 AM

@Rhetorica is there an rss feed endpoint for this part of The Index?

An RSS feed aggregation... of an RSS feed aggregator. Brilliant idea! I'll see what I can do.

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General Discussion / Re: List of NeXT related resou...

Last post by jeffburg - Apr 07, 2026, 12:23 AM

@Rhetorica is there an rss feed endpoint for this part of The Index?

#7

Software / Re: Programmatically Controlli...

Last post by ptek - Apr 06, 2026, 10:36 PM

I also use hexi which I downloaded from https://nic.funet.fi/pub/NeXT/Editors/apps/. I have not tried forty-two yet.

EDIT: (2026-04-08) Provided download link to funnet.fi file archive.

#8

General Discussion / Re: List of NeXT related resou...

Last post by Rhetorica - Apr 06, 2026, 10:03 PM

stuck

#9

General Discussion / Re: List of NeXT related resou...

Last post by ptek - Apr 06, 2026, 11:59 AM

sticky

#10

Virtualization / Re: Newbie question: how to ge...

Last post by Rhetorica - Apr 05, 2026, 10:44 PM

Another patch is online. It should fix the issue where the cursor sticked to vertical or horizontal lines (your spiral drawing test).

A big improvement! Though I did find that I had to draw very slowly or the acceleration would cause some skipping:

Perhaps I still have some use for GKMouseScaler:



I'm using 1.25 linear and 1.0 exponential in both of the above, r1795-filesharing.

The new 'raw mouse input' option seemed to make the mouse move a bit faster but substantially degraded smoothness so I decided to leave it off.