[NTLK] Einstein, last call

[Dan]

You are not the only one.  And there are several issues with the latest version. I tried to message Matthias, but I am guessing a spam filter ate them somewhere.  One is it seems the newer windows versions do not run on anything but 10 and 11.  :(  Being that so much of our windows software for newton is older and is run in VM's (NCU, Xport, Press, etc) this is a problem.

Einstein starts, you see the boot screen, hear the chime, if there are installed packages they load, then CRASH/freeze with the boot screen still up.   Blank/new internal flash don't make any difference.

I doubt anything can be done considering the current build tools are made with extra effort to block anything older than windows 10 (or at least so I have been told).  To make it compatible with older versions I suspect one would need to downgrade said build tools and Microsoft has made that very difficult if not impossible.  Perhaps we should ask a AI for better build tools that can make builds that work with older versions of windows as an option.  :P

-Dan

On 10/23/2026 12:47 AM, Victor Rehorst wrote:
> Am I the only one who feels a bittersweet sadness about this? I've sat on this feeling for a day and a half now, and it's not going away, so I'm going to have to inflict it on y'all.
> 
> The Einstein project has been on two-decade-long[1] journey, that started by proving that this community could take some control and decide what the future was of this platform that we love.  And very quickly, it became one of the cornerstones of this community: people gathered around, watching the progress, asking questions, making suggestions, offering encouragement and making any contributions that they could.  We celebrated every milestone and each piece of hard-won progress made by analyzing, understanding, documenting, and implementing.  There may only be a handful of contributors listed[2], but this entire community has always proudly carried Einstein on its shoulders.
> 
> To me, something feels wrong about it coming to such an end, deprecated due to the existence of a machine-coded "replacement". Maybe it's because, as a software developer and programmer, I enjoy and appreciate the craft so much, and now there's just nothing to do.  I should be happy - "Hooray, everything works now like we planned", but I'm not.  Is it just the fallacy of sunken cost[3] irrationally yelling in my head?
> 
> I'm not sure why, but it feels like there's a bit less to look forward to.
> 
> If I'm the only one feeling this way, I'll just walk backwards back into my hedge and deal with it.  But I'm curious, and I suspect I might not be the only one.
> 
> -V
> 
> [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040908090829/www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,64834,00.html
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> [2] https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein/graphs/contributors?all=1
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> [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost
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> On 2026-10-21 11:04, Matthias Melcher wrote:
>> There were two or three more features planed for Einstein. However with Daniel's newton-re, there is really no longer a need for the existence of Einstein. newton-re can now run NewtonOS at full speed without emulation and without a ROM. With a matching user interface, it will be far superior to Einstein, performance wise at the least.