Two Stop Bits | Note that the version history on unixdude's site is not up to date, the most rec...

me 281 days ago | parent

Note that the version history on unixdude's site is not up to date, the most recent version is 3.1, which was published by Andreas yesterday.

The current source code can be found in the "branch_softfloat" branch on sourceforge's svn: https://sourceforge.net/projects/previous/

bmonkey325 280 days ago
I now have serious trepidation about my post and may delete it. Friend of a friend sent a link through Twitter to unix dude. But that has links to blobs from god knows where and no mention of any repo from anywhere. Ugggggh.
I equally now don’t trust the source forge source either , unless you know Andreas somehow and can vouch for them. The official website linked to from sourceforge is derelict with a last update from 2016 and version 1.4.
http://previous.alternative-system.com/
In 2023 a let’s encrypt script fixes this in 10 minutes and no automation linking. And thr gap of the last update from 2016 is huge. Feels like the project doesn’t have control. I just want people to learn and have a good time and not be in harms way while doing it.
I know jgrahamc would say I’m overthinking this. But I’m hopping they will weigh in and give wisdom as they do.
- me 280 days ago
  I know Andreas and he is reliable and trustworthy. He also publishes binary builds of Previous for macOS x86 and Arm (usually on dropbox). Most of the discussions take place on the nextcomputers.org forums (https://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/), so the handful of people interested in the emulator get their information on updates directly from there and updating the information on the web is often neglected – it's a fun open source project, after all, so I can understand that people prefer to spend their spare time hacking instead of updating web pages. But it's certainly not an ideal situation.
  unixdude knows that his webpage is outdated and is working on an update (see the "What Needs to be done for a NeXT Emulator" thread in the Emulation / Virtualization subforum).
  - bmonkey325 280 days ago
    Good to know. Thanks for the comforting feedback. With so many scams and hacks going on all the time, I think I am probably overly paranoid.
    - Borg 279 days ago
      Yeah, you are not alone with paranoia... I will quote famous words from System Shock 2: "Paranoia keeps us alive..."