So working off of the Allegro thread https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/seeking-allegro-common-lisp-3-1-for-nextstep.70048/
I have a couple questions.
I made a little progress on finding some Lisp software. Another user kindly pointed me to floppy disk images for Allegro CL at https://fsck.technology/software/NeXT/NeXTSTEP Applications/Allegro CL 3.1/
Not having much expertise with the Previous emulator, I was under the impression you could load floppy images in the SCSI config panel before boot and they would then be available when Previous starts. However, when I try this, I get a message in NextStep that says the SCSI disk is unreadable. Not having much luck with that, I connected an HxC to my Turbo Slab, but when trying to convert the floppy images to work with the HxC, the HxC software says "Load error! Read file error!", so I have not been able to try the HxC.
So for you NextPerts, what is the best way to work with these floppy images? I have a floppy drive on my Slab. I'm assuming it works, but have never tried it. I recently replaced the SCSI HD with a SCSI2SD and dd'd a copy of NextStep 3.3 on it. It boots from this and seems to work well. If I could get the floppies installed on a copy of 3.3 in Previous, it seems like it would be trivial to again dd this HD image on to an SD card to use in the SCSI2SD and I'd be finished. Alternatively, I could possibly install the images via an HxC if that is known to work on the NextStation. Is there another way to maybe get these images on to actual floppies and install via the floppy drive?
Any input on how how to work with the floppy images is appreciated.
Thanks,
Win
I have a couple questions.
I made a little progress on finding some Lisp software. Another user kindly pointed me to floppy disk images for Allegro CL at https://fsck.technology/software/NeXT/NeXTSTEP Applications/Allegro CL 3.1/
Not having much expertise with the Previous emulator, I was under the impression you could load floppy images in the SCSI config panel before boot and they would then be available when Previous starts. However, when I try this, I get a message in NextStep that says the SCSI disk is unreadable. Not having much luck with that, I connected an HxC to my Turbo Slab, but when trying to convert the floppy images to work with the HxC, the HxC software says "Load error! Read file error!", so I have not been able to try the HxC.
So for you NextPerts, what is the best way to work with these floppy images? I have a floppy drive on my Slab. I'm assuming it works, but have never tried it. I recently replaced the SCSI HD with a SCSI2SD and dd'd a copy of NextStep 3.3 on it. It boots from this and seems to work well. If I could get the floppies installed on a copy of 3.3 in Previous, it seems like it would be trivial to again dd this HD image on to an SD card to use in the SCSI2SD and I'd be finished. Alternatively, I could possibly install the images via an HxC if that is known to work on the NextStation. Is there another way to maybe get these images on to actual floppies and install via the floppy drive?
Any input on how how to work with the floppy images is appreciated.
Thanks,
Win