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Configuring NeXTSTEP 3.3 to use high resolution with colors in 86Box with Socket 7 (Dual Voltage) [1996]

Earlier, we have installed NeXTSTEP 3.3 to an 86Box virtual machine with a Socket 7 (Dual Voltage) [1996] motherboard, which provided us a setup with the most minimal resolution possible and with grayscale color. However, achieving higher resolution by choosing another card and configuring NeXTSTEP to use that card is an ideal solution to achieve high resolution.

Thank you so much for the solution, Kendall Whitehouse!

After the installation is complete, shut down the NeXTSTEP 3.3 virtual machine. It’s recommended that you clone either the whole virtual machine or the virtual hard disk file of the machine. You can do it by navigating to the virtual machine folder and making a copy.

Once done, configure the virtual machine so that it looks like this:

Change the following settings:

• Display: [PCI] S3 Vision964 (Diamond Stealth64 VRAM)
• Memory size: 4 MB

Once done, press OK, and start the virtual machine. Let NeXTSTEP boot up to the file viewer.

After that, press the computer icon in the middle of the viewer (if you’re in the thumbnails view), and navigate to NextAdmin > Configure.app

After that, press the monitor icon to go to the video card configuration screen.

Remove all configured video cards by selecting one from the list and clicking Remove. Now, click Add…

Four entries should automatically show up in the list of detected devices. Choose the Diamond Stealth 64 PCI-Bus (4MB Modes)(v3.30) display device and click Add. Then, click on Expert.

Look for Auto Detect IDs, which is usually the first entry in the video card settings. Double-click on it, and write “0x88d05333 0x88d15333 0x88f05333“. Make sure that the video card IDs are correctly written, separated by a single space. Once done, press ENTER. It should now look like this:

Now, press OK, and under the Display Mode section, click Select…, then scroll down to 1024 768 60Hz RGB:256/8.

Now, press OK, then click Done and Save. Make sure that the configuration now looks like this:

After that, shut down NeXTSTEP by going to the file manager, clicking Log Out, and clicking Power Off. Wait for NeXTSTEP to shut down, then restart the virtual machine.

Now, the NeXTSTEP display should automatically switch to a bigger resolution with 256 colors:

Configuring NeXTSTEP 3.3 to use high resolution with colors in 86Box with Socket 7 (Dual Voltage) [1996]

Earlier, we have installed NeXTSTEP 3.3 to an 86Box virtual machine with a Socket 7 (Dual Voltage) [1996] motherboard, which provided us a setup with the most minimal resolution possible and with grayscale color. However, achieving higher resolution by choosing another card and configuring NeXTSTEP to use that card is an ideal solution to achieve high resolution.

Thank you so much for the solution, Kendall Whitehouse!

After the installation is complete, shut down the NeXTSTEP 3.3 virtual machine. It’s recommended that you clone either the whole virtual machine or the virtual hard disk file of the machine. You can do it by navigating to the virtual machine folder and making a copy.

Once done, configure the virtual machine so that it looks like this:

Change the following settings:

• Display: [PCI] S3 Vision964 (Diamond Stealth64 VRAM)
• Memory size: 4 MB

Once done, press OK, and start the virtual machine. Let NeXTSTEP boot up to the file viewer.

After that, press the computer icon in the middle of the viewer (if you’re in the thumbnails view), and navigate to NextAdmin > Configure.app

After that, press the monitor icon to go to the video card configuration screen.

Remove all configured video cards by selecting one from the list and clicking Remove. Now, click Add…

Four entries should automatically show up in the list of detected devices. Choose the Diamond Stealth 64 PCI-Bus (4MB Modes)(v3.30) display device and click Add. Then, click on Expert.

Look for Auto Detect IDs, which is usually the first entry in the video card settings. Double-click on it, and write “0x88d05333 0x88d15333 0x88f05333“. Make sure that the video card IDs are correctly written, separated by a single space. Once done, press ENTER. It should now look like this:

Now, press OK, and under the Display Mode section, click Select…, then scroll down to 1024 768 60Hz RGB:256/8.

Now, press OK, then click Done and Save. Make sure that the configuration now looks like this:

After that, shut down NeXTSTEP by going to the file manager, clicking Log Out, and clicking Power Off. Wait for NeXTSTEP to shut down, then restart the virtual machine.

Now, the NeXTSTEP display should automatically switch to a bigger resolution with 256 colors: