Software:Previous
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 NeXTSTEP ROM Monitor | |
| Original author(s) | Gilles Fétis |
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| Stable release | 2.4
/ January 7, 2022[1] |
| Written in | C |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Emulator |
| License | GNU GPL version 2 |
| Website | Official website |
Previous (literally the antonym of next) is an open source emulator of the proprietary 68k-based NeXT computer system family, including the original 68030-based NeXT Computer and the 68040-based NeXTstation and NeXTcube.
The emulator was created to deploy the early versions of the NeXTSTEP operating systems (0.8 to 3.0), unique NeXT software (such as Lotus Improv and Altsys Virtuoso), and various peripherals.
The emulator is based on the source code of the Hatari emulator, whose CPU core is derived from that of the WinUAE emulator.[2][3] Previous is currently developed on Linux and macOS and has been reported to successfully compile on the Windows platform. It passes the power-on tests of the NeXT ROM and is able to boot all versions NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP.
See also
References
- ↑ "Previous (readme)". https://sourceforge.net/p/previous/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/readme.previous.txt.
- ↑ "hatari/hatari.git - Git repository for the Hatari source code". https://git.tuxfamily.org/hatari/hatari.git/tree/src/cpu/winuae_readme.txt.
- ↑ "Hatari User's Manual". http://hatari.tuxfamily.org/doc/manual.html.
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