NeXT Applications Listing
NEXTSTEP Supported Software
Last updated: Wed Apr 17 12:30:25 CDT 1996
Local Applications:
- Appsoft Draw - Appsoft Draw is a drawing package
- BugByte - BugByte is an advanced window based debugger for the NeXT Computer. The primary purpose of BugByte is to examine and monitor the execution of your compiled program. BugByte displays your source code in a window with logical, easy to use controls. Most actions can be completed by pointing and clicking the mouse rather than typing long complicated commands.
- Concurrence - Concurrence is a presentation and outlining application
- CraftMan - Hypercard like tool for the NeXT.
- Create - A drawing package.
- Dan - A plotting application.
- DataPhile - You use DataPhile to create flat-file databases that can contain text, date, numeric, currency-format and boolean entries as well as pictures, sounds and links to other files and applications.
- Diagram! -Diagram! is a general-purpose drawing tool for people who use and create information graphics.
- Emacs - A program editor.
- Ensemble - Ensemble is a music application. It is interactive and primarily MIDI-oriented. Ensemble is a
multi-faceted program which can serve several functions; Music Synthesizer, Midi Sequencer, Sound File Mixer,
Scorefile Orchestrator, Music Performance, Algorithmic Composition, and Custom applications. Ensemble is a Music
Kit programming example.
- EquationBuilder - EquationBuilder gives you direct access to a variety of alternatives for typesetting
equations.
- FastTrack Schedule - FastTrack Schedule is a scheduling application.
- Frame Maker - Frame Maker is a powerful word processing/text editor application. It has powerful graphic
capabilities.
- Gopher - The Internet Gopher Protocol is a client/server protocol that can be used to "publish" and search for
information held on a distributed network of hosts. Internet Gopher clients have a seamless view of the
information in the Internet Gopher World even though the information is distributed over many different hosts.
Clients can either navigate through a hierarchy of directories and documents -or- ask an index server to return a
list of all documents that contain one or more words. Since the index server does full-text searches every word in
every document is a key word.
- Improv - Improv is a spreadsheet application that provides the power to view, analyze, and present data in
many ways. It supports graphics, images, text, and sound.
- Mathematica - Mathematica is a powerful computer software intended for mathematical
and other applications. Some of the features offered by Mathematica are numerical, symbolic and graphical
- Mesa - Mesa is a spreadsheet type application. It has graphing capabilities.
- Pixel Magician - Pixel Magic converts to and from all the popular image file formats: TIFF, GIF, PICT, PCX,
JPEG, TARGA, PS, EPS, Sun Raster, Windows BMP and others. Use the automated capabilities of the Convert
window to view, scale, rotate, quantize and convert an entire directory of image files with a single mouse click.
- Power Scan - This application enables both multi-image TIFF and EPS files to be loaded into PowerScan
and allows for TIFF images to be saved using several forms of compression.
- Presentation Builder - This application is used to prepare presentations. It allows creating charts and graphics. The user also has the option of inserting various types of graphic files.
- Score Player - ScorePlayer uses the Music Kit to synthesize music in real time on the DSP or an external MIDI synthesizer. ScorePlayer reads documents called scorefiles, a number of which are provided on
/Local Library/ Music / Scores.
- Tailor - With Tailor, you can visually edit PostScript documents. You can cut pieces out of a document and copy them to any other application. Or
recover text paragraphs for use in your favorite word processor regardless of whether the document
originated on NEXTSTEP, a PC or a MAC.
- WAIStation - This application allows you to tap into a variety of databases around the world with searchs based on the simple ideas of ``Tell Me About This'' and ``Give Me More Like That.'' You can also use WAIStationto create your own databases.
- WetPaint - This application is used to create and edit TIFF images.
- WordPerfect - This is a word processing application.
- WriteNow - This is a word processing application.
NEXTSTEP Applications
- Edit - This application can be used to create documents with text and graphics.
- FaxReader - You use the FaxReader application to read and organizefaxes that you receive.
- Grab - The Grab application provides ways to capture part or all of your computer screen, and then to either save the "grabbed" images to a .tiff file, or to copy them to the Pasteboard. Grab provide four separated ways to grab images from your screen: selection, window, screen, and timed screen.
- Digital Librarian - This application can help the user locate folders and files. It does a sweeping search of an indicated directory.
- Mail - You use the mail application to exchange messages with others on a network or those who have homefolders on your computer.
- Preferences - You use the Preference application to personalize your work space, manage hardware, andcontrol access to your computer.
- Preview - The Preview application lets you view PostScript and TIFF images. Preview starts up when you clickthe Preview button in the standard Print panel or Fax panel, and when you double-click a file with a ".ps", ".eps"or ".tiff" extension.
- PrintManager - You use PrintManager to add a printer or fax modem you have attached to your computer tothe list of those available in an application's Print or Choose Fax Modem panel. You can also
remove a printer or fax modem from the list.
- Terminal - This application will emulate the terminal type VT100.
- Webster's Ninth New Collegiate (Digital Webster: A Dictionary and Thesaurus) - Type a word orphrase you'd find in the dictionary in the query box, and click Define (or press Return). Depending on which
books are open, Webster displays dictionary or thesaurus entries (or both) in the text area. Clicking thedictionary and thesaurus buttons opens and closes the books.
NEXTSTEP Developer
- DBModeler - This application is a database model building tool.
- HeaderViewer - You can use the HeaderViewer application to browse classes, language elements, and header files, and to perform searches on header files and on-line document files.
- IconBuilder - This application allows for the creation of icons in a manner that is very much like a drawing package.
- Interface Builder - You use the Interface Builder application to assemble and interconnect objects in your application. You work in NeXT Interface Builder, or nib files.
- Malloc Debugger - Malloc Debug is a utility for measuring the dynamic memory usage of applications and for finding memory leaks. You can use MallocDebug to measure all allocated memory in an application or to measure the memory allocated since a given point in time. Malloc Debug also contains a conservative garbage
detector that can be used to detect memory leaks.
- Process Monitor - This application allows the user to monitor the progress of an application, terminate it , or suspend the operation of the application temporarily.
- Project Builder - You use the Project Builder application to create and manage the components of your application, and to access other tools for creating and modifying components.
- Yap (Yet Another Previewer) - Yap is an interactive PostScript previewer for people wishing to do some PostScript hacking. Yap lets you enter, edit, and execute PostScript code on the fly and allows you to read and write text files so the code can be used elsewhere. Yap is intended for experimenting with short, hand-created
segments of PostScript and is pretty much useless for previewing page-oriented documents as it ignores all Encapsulated PostScript comments (such as %%BoundingBox and %%Page).
University of Houston NEXTSTEP Applications
- Array Factor Calculation - This application displays electromagnetic field arrays.
- Beam Analysis - This application will determine the Shear Force, Bending Moment, and Deflected Shape diagrams from various forces along a beam.
- Convolution Application - This is an application demonstrating the concept of Convolution in the continuous and discrete cases. Linear and Circular Convoluting in the discrete case are also proved. Two signals to be convolved can be chosen from a list of function, and there after he solution with the unchanged and the flipped and shifted signals are displayed. Circular Convolution can be performed in the discrete domain incomparison with the Linear Convolution.
- Digital Inverter Simulation - This application gives the Voltage Transfer Curve and the Input and Output Curves for the transient analysis from use defined values for critical voltage values and associated parameters for three inverter configurations. The configurations consist of a resistive mode NMOS invertor, a depletion mode NMOS invertor, and a CMOS inverter.
- FFTApps - This is a signal processing application
- Fourier Series - The Fourier Series application provides a graphical means of comparing a square wave with its Fourier Series approximation and with one of its components.
- Power Plus! - PowerPlus! is an interactive three phase power simulator. You are able to define generator parameters, transmission line parameters, and three phase load characteristics. All of these options are easily defined by setting the appropriate value within the network diagram.
- PZ Factory - The Pole Zero Diagram application can help you learn more about the relationship among thepoles, zeroes, frequency response, phase, and impulse response. It will give you the system transfer function according to the current pole-zero distribution. The type of impulse response can be determined by selecting the
different type of region of convergence.
- Sampling and Reconstruction - This is an application that demonstrates the concept of sampling and reconstruction of signals. It gives a graphical representation of the signal and its Fourier transform at
various stages of the sampling and reconstruction process. The time plots in all the stages are plotted in the range.
- Signal Processing Simulator
- Transmission Line Analyzer - This application allow for the reflection coefficient , normalized impedance,normalized admittance, wave number, length of line, the characteristic impedance, and the load impedance to be chosen. The result will be a normalized voltage and current plot along with a Smith chart to identify the input data.