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NeXT hardware might be rare… but the OS? It’s still alive — in emulators, virtual machines, and even some unexpected places. In this episode, I dive into how to emulate NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP on modern systems using tools like Previous and 86Box. But did you know, it was also possible the other way round, a NeXT emulating a PC? Meet Insignia's SoftPC for NeXT! Along the way, I’ll show you how to install NeXTSTEP, transfer files via NFS, run Rhapsody on x86 emulation, and take a peek at the controversial developer preview of OPENSTEP 4.0, the version that foreshadowed the dock of Mac OS X 10.0! ⌨️ Got experience running NeXTSTEP on your own setup? Share it in the comments — I’d love to hear your tips and memories. In this episode: 00:00 Intro 00:50 Emulating a NeXT Workstation ... with Previous! 03:54 Running OPENSTEP Preview Release 1 04:35 Previous To Jumpstart NeXTSTEP 2.1 06:02 Emulating NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP X86, incl. Rhapsody 08:08 Emulating SPARC & HP PA-RISC In QEMU 08:45 How NeXT Emulated an IBM PC - With SoftPC 11:13 Conclusion / Next on TPC 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! Want to join THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS or THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS community and get a mention in an upcoming video? Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz Christian Zerrahn David Schell Ernesto Leonardo Bertola Waseem al sammane ZyeByteVT THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: Balint Szikszay Brian Repinski CaffeinePizza Cecil Chip Smith Cinemint Music Clank Elinars GrayT! ihartmacz Jack Beckman Jack Rosenthal Luke Granger-Brown Matthew Veety Mlok Karel MS-DOS Manfred nadrazhul Steven Glogger Wobinu Films xcalibur839 Z098 Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. This presentation, Copyright @ 2025 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see sources). Music composed by 🎶 Abdallah El-Ghannam https://www.youtube.com/@AcrossTheU.S.A | https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam 🎶 rootkitty | https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty ℹ️ Sources: Previous Emulator: http://previous.nextcommunity.net/ https://previous.unixdude.net/ NeXTSTEP 4.0 Beta + ISOs: https://github.com/davidbalbert/iso2next https://archive.org/details/NeXTOSIMAGES NeXTSTEP 4.0 Developer Preview (“Mecca”): https://betawiki.net/wiki/NeXTSTEP_4.0_PR1 https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1736 https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10004#p10004 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2014/02/28/nextstep-4-0-mecca-a-glimpse-into-what-might-have-been/ https://winworldpc.com/product/nextstep/4x VirtualBox & VMware Setup https://openstep.bfx.re/ VirtualBox Resources: https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4929 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2012/07/27/openstep-4-2-on-virtualbox/ https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=107805 VMware Resources: https://github.com/temisu/VmWareFB https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3448 https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2015/01/27/openstep-4-2-on-vmware/ 86Box & OPENSTEP & Rhapsody: https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5301 https://86box.net/compatibility/ https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/12/05/installing-nextstep-3-3-in-86box/ https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/9911/mac-os-x-rhapsody/p2 OPENSTEP on SPARC: https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=456713 https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg01347.html https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/target-sparc.html https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/SPARC https://gunkies.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP OPENSTEP on PA-RISC: https://parisc.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/qemu.html https://www.openpa.net/qemu_pa-risc_emulation.html https://forum.classic-computing.de/forum/index.php?thread/34655-pa-risc-emulation-mit-qemu/ SoftPC: https://fsck.technology/software/NeXT/NeXTSTEP%20Applications/ Fixed SoftPC 2.0 .pkg installers: https://archive.org/details/softpc-for-nextstep