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#61
General Discussion / Re: Video: 2015 Cartoon Art Mu...
Last post by ZombiePhysicist - Oct 29, 2025, 03:51 PMWow what a great find! Thanks for sharing it!
#62
General Discussion / Re: NeXT sightings!
Last post by Rhetorica - Oct 29, 2025, 03:44 PMJeez, somehow I made a duplicate of this thread! I've merged it in here.
#63
General Discussion / Re: Forum Theme Thanks
Last post by Rhetorica - Oct 29, 2025, 03:43 PMQuote from: ZombiePhysicist on Oct 20, 2025, 07:03 PMI love the little news snippet in the upper right hand part of the site. Could that include a link to the actual new story and/or post it references?It's a very weird feature! I've added links where possible/appropriate, though I didn't include one for the gossip about Rob's current ten-cube project (which was sourced from one of his videos) because he's mentioned there's going to be a bigger video about it in the coming days.
Admittedly the CSS for these links sucks—black text with a nearly-invisible cyan underline, bleh! I'll do what I can to improve it when time allows.
#64
General Discussion / Re: Inside NeXT Book 2025 edit...
Last post by Rhetorica - Oct 29, 2025, 03:41 PMThanks for coming krazycat! We look forward to more of your great work in the future!
For those not in the know, Rob's listing for the books is here.
For those not in the know, Rob's listing for the books is here.
#65
General Discussion / Re: Inside NeXT Book 2025 edit...
Last post by krazycat - Oct 29, 2025, 03:40 PMHi Zombie,
the book isn't being distributed in electronic format for several reasons, here are a few: because the page format and some small texts would be difficult to read on a monitor; because the book would be immediately copied and redistributed through p2p channels (this happened with the Italian version of the book); and also because I'm a fetishist for the smell of freshly printed paper...
the book isn't being distributed in electronic format for several reasons, here are a few: because the page format and some small texts would be difficult to read on a monitor; because the book would be immediately copied and redistributed through p2p channels (this happened with the Italian version of the book); and also because I'm a fetishist for the smell of freshly printed paper...
#66
General Discussion / Re: NeXT in media
Last post by Rhetorica - Oct 29, 2025, 03:34 PMHere's what Google translate can recover from it:
So, looks like it's a semi-real easter egg containing staff information on a UI that was thrown together for the video, perhaps from a localized InterfaceBuilder example app.
Code Select
Madonna
Madonna
font
save
Undo q
Madonna
Madonna
Madonna
Production Department Videography Labor Cost Budget
Company Name
satellite film
artist
Madonna
project number
16:23
date
staff
Assist supervision
Matsushita Electric
Special electric line 2
Sachiko Nakagawa
makeup
stylist
time keeper
interpretation
part-time job
part-time job
Subtotal
Kumiko Miyazaki
Sei Midori
The Four Mountains
Mikako Kodama
Nobuhiro Ito
5-455-45
45-45-45-4
¥793171330
720
24
total amount
24547788
¥
Actual performance
Amount paid
So, looks like it's a semi-real easter egg containing staff information on a UI that was thrown together for the video, perhaps from a localized InterfaceBuilder example app.
#67
General Discussion / Re: NeXT in media
Last post by jeffburg - Oct 29, 2025, 01:28 PMSo cool! マドンナ
#68
General Discussion / NeXT in media
Last post by Rhetorica - Oct 29, 2025, 12:56 PMLaw & Order: Special Victims Unit
My (now-lost) first-ever forum thread was about this extremely obscure chance find: screenshots of a NeXT-based 3D DICOM image viewer on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (season 3, episode 9.) This is almost blink-and-you'll-miss-it stuff. In the episode, the perpetrator is being tested for brain activity differences that would mark him as a congenital psychopath, and is being subject to an fMRI scan.
The screenshots are clearly doctored—the scale is inconsistent and there is an abundance of Windows 9x titlebars mixed in with NS/OS widgets and panels. Unfortunately aside from an app named "3D" there is nothing specific enough to identify the origin of the material shown—since there's no close or radio buttons we can't even guess whether it's compiled against OPENSTEP AppKit or traditional NeXT APIs. However the usage of bordered control groups rather than bold/italic/large text to indicate sections of panels suggests it was a later UI, probably refreshed sometime after NS 3.0, and may not have been peculiar to black hardware.
At the time I first posted this, I speculated that it could be an undoctored screenshot of OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows, but even disregarding the inconsistent UI scale, OSE applications tend to look more consistently like native Windows programs (with a few telltale exceptions, such as a custom widget being used for drop-down menus.)
Madonna – Rain
Rather better-known is the usage of NeXT machines on the set of Madonna Ciccone's Rain music video, which shows a close-up of the UI around the 1:45 mark.
The image above seems to depict the receipt window of a financial package, with a large, perhaps nonsensical value in the total field at the bottom (something like 1.8 billion yen?)—maybe @jeffberg can translate some of it. The dock contains 3View.app, Recycler, Sound.app, an unidentified Japanese financial app (likely the open program—no ... indicator), Edit.app, Mail.app, Preferences.app, and of course WM.app.
The inclusions of Sound.app and 3View.app seem non-obvious (and certainly non-default); perhaps they were used in cut shots as eye candy, as the framing of the video suggests the three NeXT slabs are being used to to facilitate the recording of Madonna's performance.
What other references to NeXT in media do you know of, and why are they all from title cards in Serial Experiments: Lain?
My (now-lost) first-ever forum thread was about this extremely obscure chance find: screenshots of a NeXT-based 3D DICOM image viewer on Law and Order: Special Victims Unit (season 3, episode 9.) This is almost blink-and-you'll-miss-it stuff. In the episode, the perpetrator is being tested for brain activity differences that would mark him as a congenital psychopath, and is being subject to an fMRI scan.
The screenshots are clearly doctored—the scale is inconsistent and there is an abundance of Windows 9x titlebars mixed in with NS/OS widgets and panels. Unfortunately aside from an app named "3D" there is nothing specific enough to identify the origin of the material shown—since there's no close or radio buttons we can't even guess whether it's compiled against OPENSTEP AppKit or traditional NeXT APIs. However the usage of bordered control groups rather than bold/italic/large text to indicate sections of panels suggests it was a later UI, probably refreshed sometime after NS 3.0, and may not have been peculiar to black hardware.
At the time I first posted this, I speculated that it could be an undoctored screenshot of OPENSTEP Enterprise for Windows, but even disregarding the inconsistent UI scale, OSE applications tend to look more consistently like native Windows programs (with a few telltale exceptions, such as a custom widget being used for drop-down menus.)
Madonna – Rain
Rather better-known is the usage of NeXT machines on the set of Madonna Ciccone's Rain music video, which shows a close-up of the UI around the 1:45 mark.
The image above seems to depict the receipt window of a financial package, with a large, perhaps nonsensical value in the total field at the bottom (something like 1.8 billion yen?)—maybe @jeffberg can translate some of it. The dock contains 3View.app, Recycler, Sound.app, an unidentified Japanese financial app (likely the open program—no ... indicator), Edit.app, Mail.app, Preferences.app, and of course WM.app.
The inclusions of Sound.app and 3View.app seem non-obvious (and certainly non-default); perhaps they were used in cut shots as eye candy, as the framing of the video suggests the three NeXT slabs are being used to to facilitate the recording of Madonna's performance.
What other references to NeXT in media do you know of, and why are they all from title cards in Serial Experiments: Lain?
#69
General Discussion / Video: 2015 Cartoon Art Museum...
Last post by jeffburg - Oct 29, 2025, 09:41 AMI was reminded of this event I went to in San Francisco 2015 Cartoon Art Museum Fundraiser: #NeXTEVNT. They posted a video of it is a great source of NeXT history and folklore
#70
General Discussion / Re: NeXT baseball caps/hats
Last post by kokomuck - Oct 29, 2025, 07:14 AMHuh, I want one, too!
I still have my NeXT tea cup (made out of glass), and a few NeXT pencils - from the good old days when there was still official NeXT merchandising.
I was thinking of making a plain t-shirt or hoodie just with the NeXT logo on it - just for personal use.
I also still have a PasteUp t-shirt which came with the software packed in a box, which is pretty much worn out and damaged. Would there be a copyright infringement, if I made a new t-shirt with the PasteUp logo on it?
I still have my NeXT tea cup (made out of glass), and a few NeXT pencils - from the good old days when there was still official NeXT merchandising.
I was thinking of making a plain t-shirt or hoodie just with the NeXT logo on it - just for personal use.
I also still have a PasteUp t-shirt which came with the software packed in a box, which is pretty much worn out and damaged. Would there be a copyright infringement, if I made a new t-shirt with the PasteUp logo on it?