NeXTStep 4.x

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NeXTStep 4.x

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Missileboi

The floppy images will mount in Linux, but the ISO won't.

helloisthispizzahut

Can it work in Virtualbox?

User64

Does anyone have a copy of OpenStep for Mach, which was NeXT's version of OpenStep designed to replace NeXTStep 3.3? OpenStep Enterprise (above) is only the OpenStep API ported to Windows NT 4.0.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep#OPENSTEP_Enterprise

hwertz

I was interested in this as well, as I actually have some ISOs but could not get them to boot in the emulator.

I found two different sets of info that add up to goodness!

First piece of info, herehttps://peterwong.net/blog/creating-an-openstep-boot-cd-2/ I found info that indicates the OpenStep 4.2 "Intel" ISOs are actually universal, they dropped HP PA-RISC but have tri-fat Intel, M68k, and SPARC binaries and the 3 Mach/kernels on there. Apparently the CD itself is i386/SPARC dual bootable but the m68k boot doesn't work (... it only ever worked on the turbo anyway, so they now assume you use a boot floppy.... which I am not sure about finding an image for.) BUT, there are instructions to patch 7.5KB over from nextstep 3.3. ISO to restore m68k boot, and there's 7.5KB file on the site as well if you don't want to have to pull it from the other .ISO image.

Second, I found links here https://openstep.bfx.re/ for the ISOs, also there are copies on archive.org. (Since they have "Intel" right in the name you'd assume they are useless for m68k but per the info above, these CDs are in fact for both and were just oddly named.) There's also a patch CD that apparently fixed quite a few bugs and is good to install.

CelsoF

Managed to install it successfully, only in Virtualbox 7.022, virtualbox 6 doesn´t ever reads the hdd, idr or scsi either could not import the ready appliance .ova exported from virtualbox 7. Just follow exactly what is in this link https://openstep.bfx.re (files provided), notice that the drivers disk (custom drivers disk ) is ver 4.03. Used the primary/secondary IDE ATAPI driver. hit 2 times menu 7 and then 5 in the drives list as in the tutorial says. Also the vesa driver works in 32 bit! There´s a iso patch to be installed. Did not install network yet.