guidol Posted August 18, 2020 Posted August 18, 2020 Today I did compile the NeXT-Cube/Station Emulator Previous 2.2 ( http://previous.alternative-system.com/index.php/build ) on my NanoPi A64 (with installed Desktop-option for using SDL) Installing the dependencies and compiling Previous 2.2 has been done with the follwing commands ( while compiling there were MUCH warnings ) : apt install zlib1g zlib1g-dev libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-dev libpng16-16 libpng-dev libpcap0.8 libpcap0.8-dev apt install g++ cmake subversion cd /home/guido old Previous v1.8 : ===================== svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/previous/code/branches/branch_realtime previous-code actual Previous v2.2: ===================== svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/previous/code/trunk previous-code cd previous-code ./configure make Run the program cd src ./Previous For booting the emulation you need a SCSI-HDD-dd-image of NeXTstep 3.3 You can get it at https://winworldpc.com/product/nextstep/3x inside the file Nextstep 3.3 HD Image With Previous The NanoPi A64 gets only 50-100% emulation speed of an original NeXT A little bit more while using a 68030 CPU and less on the 68040 CPU emulation. PS: because the emulator is using SDL for gfx you need to start the emulator from a graphical terminal on the NanoPi...
xwiggen Posted August 23, 2020 Posted August 23, 2020 Very cool. Remember saving for a BeBox after that. 1
sfx2000 Posted August 23, 2020 Posted August 23, 2020 On 8/18/2020 at 6:33 AM, guidol said: The NanoPi A64 gets only 50-100% emulation speed of an original NeXT A little bit more while using a 68030 CPU and less on the 68040 CPU emulation. Cool - keep in mind that the M68K on both Mac and NeXT ran in big-endian mode... Looking at the project page, the m68k emu is a bit on the older side... Back in the day, used to have access to an 040 slab - they were neat boxes.
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