Cannes Critics’ Week Unveils Next Step Jury, Expands Filmmaker Initiative for 2025
#Variety #Global #News #CannesCriticsWeek #NextStep #StefanoCentini

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/cannes-critics-week-next-step-jury-1236378138/

Does this work? I’d make it look better too.

Thinking of NEXTSTEP this morning...I'd guess many aren't aware of the unusual color display arrangement.

The NeXTstation, which was the first "affordable" color solution for NEXTSTEP, has a 16-bit framebuffer, but instead of rendering the desktop in 65,536 colors (as per Windows or Mac hardware, say), it rendered in 12-bit color with 4-bits of alpha channel (transparency).

That means it had a palette of 4096 colors, with all colors available at once on the display (not like, say, the Amiga or Apple IIgs with a 4096 color palette, but video modes with a small subset of those colors available (yes, yes, HAM mode excluded). Additionally, anything on the screen had 16 levels of opacity available.

It's interesting to see in person, on the actual hardware (especially on a good LCD display). With dithering, it looks very close to 24-bit truecolor.

(The NeXT Dimension color board for the Cube allowed 24-bit color with 8-bits alpha, but that was not so frequently used -- less so than most NeXT hardware even...)

But that's not nearly the weirdest that NEXTSTEP-capable hardware got, when it came to color video display...

Emacs 19 running on OPENSTEP 4.2. Emulated on 86box.

Note that OPENSTEP 4.2's installation CD comes with emacs 18 which can only be used in the terminal. The one with gui support can be found in https://www.theoldcomputer.com/roms/index.php?folder=NeXT/Cube-Station/OPENSTEP/Apps/EMACS

@lcamtuf NS stands for #NextStep, m8!

This ain't like #NSAKEY ...

Haiku, the little OS that could. The open source version of #BeOS, an OS that felt like it had a soul (#Amiga anyone?). Run easily on a virtual machine.

Little known fact: while the bosses came from #Apple, the principal engineers of #BeOS came from NeXT, and the younger ones that "graduated" from that experience ended up becoming the principal ones behind #Android (after a quick sting at #PalmOS).

In Silicon Valley, everything's connected.

This is the NeXT computer. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau used it at CERN to set up the first web server, id Software developed games like Doom and Quake on it, and at Slovenian daily newspaper Delo they used it to digitize the entire newspaper production process.

The 3D-printed case just arrived from PCBWay. So happy about what this NeXTStep on a Raspberry Pi5 projet is turning into ! #retrocomputing #nextstep #raspberrypi5 #3DPrinting #previous

This week, someone asked our tech support team why there's a low-resolution image of a moose included within the @OmniWeb 3 app for NeXTSTEP.

I explained that when we were working on OmniWeb 2 (back in February '96, a year and a half before google.com was registered), we added HTML options for different list bullets, and two of the list bullet options we added were "moose" and "squirrel”.

Why does this cheap, NOKIA feature phone need 64 MB of RAM? https://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_3210-12990.php

Consider #BeOS, it could run a full desktop OS in less than 32 MB of RAM. #NeXTSTEP needed 8 originally. Yes, these are old OSes, but it's not like this phone does anything much more complex, apart the networking stack.

I want a proper ANSI color terminal for NeXT computers. The only apps from back in the day are lost to the sands of time. I contacted the author of one and he is no longer able to generate license codes, rendering it useless.

I think the best option would be to backport the Terminal app from GNUstep but my rudimentary programming skills wouldn't even get me started. I know there are others who would like such a thing. Maybe we could pitch in and pay a professional to do it. But how would we find such a person?

I've been playing with the #WindowMaker version of #Debian recently, just to remember the old, good #NextSTEP, #OpenSTEP era. I used to have a #NeXTStation but I sold it locally for $300 just before I left US for Greece. It could probably fetch thousands on eBay, but I didn't want to deal with shipping such a heavy item.

Ah, I miss the old #SiliconValley. Back when there was actually room to innovate in ways that were revolutionary, and not just additive.

"Please select the items that you want to install". Of course I want the GNU source! (deselected by default)

#NeXTstep #OpenStep #YellowBox for #Windows