Josh Justice

@CodingItWrong@bitbang.social
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Josh JusticeJul 9, 2024
Finished redeeming an Amazon gift card and Amazon showed me this. Yes, Jeff Bezos, I'm aware that you would like everyone to give you all the money.
Josh JusticeJul 5, 2024
Folks in the Southeast, #VCFSE is two weeks away! I hope you can join up and try out all my esoteric OSes! https://vcfed.org/events/otherevents/vintage-computer-festival-southeast/vcf-se-11-0-exhibits/
VCF-SE 11.0 — Exhibits – Vintage Computer Federation

Josh JusticeJun 17, 2024
Ooh, sick burn on #python
Josh JusticeJun 14, 2024
Big thanks to @codepoet80 for selling me a NeXT keyboard. That was the last piece I needed to have a full working NeXTstation setup of my own—no more borrowed components needed!
Josh JusticeJun 8, 2024

Success! I was able to get a clean NeXTSTEP 3.3 disk image loaded onto an SD card and it booted on the first try.

I want to back up and also keep the SD card it came with as it had some cool stuff on it. But the clean image fixes a few issues with that one, and it's nice to see what came out of the box.

Show threadJosh JusticeJun 2, 2024
And a really interesting bonus: seller said it had "Mac OS installed" and I was like 🫤 but turns out it has a NeXT program called Executor that runs Macintosh software. Will need to read up on it more!
Josh JusticeJun 2, 2024
Great news: the #NeXTstation that got lost in the mail finally arrived a month later, and it looks and works great!
Josh JusticeMay 31, 2024
lol, I forgot about this ginormous chonker of a CD-ROM drive
Josh JusticeApr 28, 2024

NeXT monitor arrived, works, and the picture is *really* nice. The borrowed monitor I have has a known issue where the picture is super wobbly for the first 20-30 min it's running (!). By comparison the picture seems somewhat dim too. I didn't realize how much more enthused a good image would make me to play around with NeXT!

Slab is arriving tomorrow from the same seller (testing on a borrowed one today). Hopefully it's in as good a shape!

Josh JusticeApr 8, 2024
When an eBay auction has been a really good price but it starts creeping up
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Show threadJosh JusticeJun 2, 2024
And a really interesting bonus: seller said it had "Mac OS installed" and I was like 🫤 but turns out it has a NeXT program called Executor that runs Macintosh software. Will need to read up on it more!
Show threadLt Cmdr KeyboardJun 2, 2024

@CodingItWrong That’s really neat, I hadn’t heard of that program before

In a way it’s like you got a bonus vintage machine too

Show threadUli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Jun 2, 2024
@CodingItWrong @kalleboo Pretty sure Executor also made it to Windows, it's been around a while. They basically clean-room reimplemented their own version of the System 6 API, that's why their "Finder" looks so weird.
Show threadKarl BaronJun 2, 2024
@uliwitness @CodingItWrong Yeah I remember running the Windows version on a friends PC, on the contrary I didn’t know about a NeXT version!
Show threadWesley MooreJun 2, 2024
@kalleboo @uliwitness @CodingItWrong Clifford Matthews published the source of Executor on GitHub a while back too https://github.com/ctm/executor
GitHub - ctm/executor: old-school Macintosh Emulator

old-school Macintosh Emulator. Contribute to ctm/executor development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadJosh JusticeJun 2, 2024
@wezm @kalleboo @uliwitness incidentally, anyone happen to know how it's pronounced? "ex-EC-u-tor" (like executive) or "EX-e-cu-tor" (like execute)
Show threadUli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Jun 2, 2024
@CodingItWrong @wezm @kalleboo I always pronounced it “exeCUtor" in my head (like the Austrian pay collection agent), but I’ve never actually said it out loud. I'd prolly go with exECutor, given I have no TV ads or anything like that to guide me.
Show threadUli Kusterer (Not a kitteh)Jun 3, 2024

@CodingItWrong @wezm @kalleboo We have an official answer: https://github.com/ctm/executor/issues/8

(plus a reply guy who thinks it was appropriate to correct the author, but hey … can't all be winners)

How do you pronounce "executor"? · Issue #8 · ctm/executor

What the title says. Just curious where the emphasis is. Is it like the job, exECutor, or like the verb EXecutor, or exeCUtor, or what?

GitHub
Show threadJesús A. ÁlvarezJun 2, 2024
@CodingItWrong it looks like it also has Daydream, which requires a dongle with a Macintosh ROM, or a patch to load the ROM from a file: https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/index.php?topic=1722.0
Show thread💻 okflo 🤸Jun 2, 2024
@CodingItWrong IIRC there was also a linux version of executor? I remember vaguely having played with it, but had no success to get PageMaker running... :)