What Needs to be done for a NeXT Emulator

[Adam_Hall]

Anyone thought of just doing an .AppImage version? Might be much easier for everyone.

[Rhetorica]

Awaiting Linux builds from @wmlive!

Available now for Debian/Trixie amd64/arm64/i386 at wmlive.rumbero.org/repo/pool/main/p/previous/.

Mirrored!

[jeffburg]

@Adam_Hall I admit, I had to google .AppImage to understand what it is. Seems pretty cool. Of course I should have figured that the Linux community had still not settled on a portable application binary format. Of course, I could see why given the incredible variety of linux distros and versions in use.

[Adam_Hall]

I'm not too familiar with it beyond using it in the background regularly — many of the programs I use come in that format. Honestly, I find it easier to work with than Flatpak.
I built Previous from source, so it runs fine on Debian 12 (I haven't moved to Debian 13 yet). I did have Claude AI walk me through creating an AppImage for another program I built from source. It was a bit of a blur since I'd never done it before, but it only took about five minutes and I ended up with an AppImage that runs on any Linux distribution.
I first became familiar with AppImage when GDoom switched to it from Flatpak, and later discovered I already had quite a few programs on my system using it.

[andreas_g]

I've got a little teaser for you. It has been requested many times and finally it will arrive. Check back soon.