NeXT cubes or slabs.

On Fri, 26 Jun 1998, Seth J. Morabito wrote: It's a pretty cool little frob, yes. I hate you. (: I forget if the Nitro was the NeXT prototype or the aftermarket accelerator made by (I think) Spherical Solutions. The Daydreams show up on rare occasion in comp.sys.next.marketplace. There was one for sale there, actually, just the other day. They sell from $250 to $400. Generally, people snap them up when they see them and don't wait for a better-priced one to come along. The emulation isn't perfect.. because the NeXT uses its DSP for sound reproduction, and the Daydream needs it to talk to the ROMs, you don't get sounds under MacOS. Also, it's not a window-type emulation. The Daydream software is a special kernel image that allows the NeXT to boot into MacOS (7.x -- I'm running 7.5.5). Because the Daydream reports itself as an LC (which are the ROMs it uses), you cannot use 7.6 or newer. I've also found that DiskCopy doesn't seem to work under the Daydream Mac. But other than that, it's very good. I get performance somewhere around that of a Quadra 800 on my non-turbo slab. None of this stuff is 10 years old yet, but it's been abandoned and is otherwise just way too cool. ok r.