I figure we can start a list of a "definitive" list of all NeXTish resources here.
Feel free to post here and I will try to incorporate them all here in a list as time goes by. Let's start with a few here:
Archive Resources
- Rhetorica's NeXT archive http://archive.nextcommunity.net/
- Rhetorica's NeXT CD archive http://cdrom.nextcommunity.net/
- Rhetorica's NeXT Peak.org archive http://peak.nextcommunity.net/
- Rhetorica's NeXT tu-berlin archive http://tu-berlin.nextcommunity.net/
History Resources
- NeXT History 1 https://youtu.be/lg6a_z41KPc
- NeXT History 2 https://youtu.be/zbpZttHzNSE
Previous NeXT Emulator Resources
- The (semi-official, semi-WIP) Previous page http://previous.nextcommunity.net/
- The extremely official Previous SourceForge project page https://sourceforge.net/projects/previous/
- Eagle (unixdude)'s OG Previous page https://previous.unixdude.net/
- Eagle (unixdude)'s collection of older versions https://previous.unixdude.net/download.html
- mcCoy's clean pre-installed disk images https://mega.nz/file/F0Q22KKb#WiceqJA2LIhPbWJZvR6CmJstPZwOdZrun8gYo1e-Row
Webby Resources
- NeXT Posterity Discord https://discord.gg/77xFVjmgmu
- NeXTcommunity (you are here) http://nextcommunity.net/forums/
- Rhetorica's NeXT index http://index.nextcommunity.net/
- Rhetorica's NeXT search http://search.nextcommunity.net/
Other Resources
- DMCA exemption passed for archivists in 2021 allowing circumvention of copyright protection when software is no longer commercially available (PDF) https://www.softwarepreservationnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/1201-Preservationists-Guide-to-DMCA-Exemption_11182022.pdf
- pl212's serial number spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AlglRexbIUWodHo0dEoxMHY3dFhmMzVxdmFMMG4zZUE
Now some classics...
Informational Resources
- The Best of NeXT http://www.kevra.org/TheBestOfNext/
- David Shaw's NeXT Resources Page http://www.shawcomputing.net/resources/next/index.html
- David Shaw's Rhapsody Resources Page http://www.rhapsodyos.org/home.html
- NeXToP (NS 3.3 Admin, NS 3.3 DevDocs, NeXTanswers) https://www.nextop.de/
- Higher Intellect NeXT documentation https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/computing/nextstep-openstep/
- Vintage Technology Digital Archive NeXT documentation https://vtda.org/docs/computing/NeXT/
- BitSavers NeXT documentation https://bitsavers.org/pdf/next/
- Internet Archive query for texts containing "nextstep" https://archive.org/search?query=nextstep&page=2&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22
- Verdraith/Asmodai/OSnerd's collection of NeXT-Docs (NeXTWORLD, NSA3.3, NSDD3.3) https://github.com/Asmodai/NeXT-Docs
- userLevel's NeXT documentation collection https://github.com/userLevel/next
(More) Software Archives
- fsck.technology's NeXT software archive (includes an earlier snapshot of PEAK and quite a few commercial releases) https://fsck.technology/software/NeXT/
- Internet Archive query for software containing "nextstep" https://archive.org/search?query=nextstep&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22software%22
NeXT Proprietary Source Code on GitHub
- https://github.com/johnsonjh/NeXTDimension
- https://github.com/johnsonjh/NeXTDSP
- https://github.com/johnsonjh/NeXTMach
- https://github.com/johnsonjh/NeXTROM
- https://github.com/johnsonjh/NeXTSrc
- https://github.com/evolver56k/Darwin-0.3/tree/master (technically open source, but contains many NeXT-copyrighted files unchanged since the mid-90s that are of general relevance to kernel hacking)
Found this website http://web.archive.org/web/20171103135832/http://download.unirc.eu/OpenStep/Soft/misc/NEXTTOYOU/97.1-Fruehjahr/APPSTOYOU/ (http://web.archive.org/web/20171103135832/http://download.unirc.eu/OpenStep/Soft/misc/NEXTTOYOU/97.1-Fruehjahr/APPSTOYOU/) which was mentioned on here https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/installing-and-using-next-openstep-in-virtualbox-for-linux/ (https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2019/11/12/installing-and-using-next-openstep-in-virtualbox-for-linux/)
oh that's cool, I didn't realize LaunchBar was built for OpenStep.
Quote from: ptek on Sep 30, 2025, 04:05 AMFound this website http://web.archive.org/web/20171103135832/http://download.unirc.eu/OpenStep/Soft/misc/NEXTTOYOU/97.1-Fruehjahr/APPSTOYOU/ (http://web.archive.org/web/20171103135832/http://download.unirc.eu/OpenStep/Soft/misc/NEXTTOYOU/97.1-Fruehjahr/APPSTOYOU/) which was mentioned on [...]
Browsing through web.archive.org/web/20171103135832/http://download.unirc.eu/OpenStep/ (http://web.archive.org/web/20171103135832/http://download.unirc.eu/OpenStep/) reveals a huge treasure trove of general interest.
But how to recursively download the whole thing from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine?
Here is a working solution: github.com/StrawberryMaster/wayback-machine-downloader (https://github.com/StrawberryMaster/wayback-machine-downloader).
In Linux, it just requires a recent Ruby installation and can then be easily installed by just executing:
gem install wayback_machine_downloader_straw (as described in the README).
Quote from: wmlive on Sep 30, 2025, 08:00 PMBrowsing through web.archive.org/web/20171103135832/http://download.unirc.eu/OpenStep/ (http://web.archive.org/web/20171103135832/http://download.unirc.eu/OpenStep/) reveals a huge treasure trove of general interest.
But how to recursively download the whole thing from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine?
Here is a working solution: github.com/StrawberryMaster/wayback-machine-downloader (https://github.com/StrawberryMaster/wayback-machine-downloader).
I'm glad other people are finding this archive useful. It's a big collection and I don't know how else we would have been able to find that archive since it is no longer online.
The unirc site does seem like it might have some unique content in it, very tempting!
However, I will say that the German magazine NEXTTOYOU (and its APPSTOYOU diskmag) is already preserved here: https://fsck.technology/software/NeXT/next.68k.org%20Archive/next/otto/html/pub/NEXTTOYOU/
I would highly recommend spending an afternoon looking through https://fsck.technology/software/NeXT/next.68k.org%20Archive/next/otto/html/pub/index.html — prior to restoring the tu-berlin collection (http://archive.nextcommunity.net/tu-berlin/), it was the only real collection of Rhapsody software that I knew of; all the PEAK mirrors seem to strip it out.