List of NeXT related resources

[ZombiePhysicist]

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

[Rhetorica]

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)

[ptek]

Found this website 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/

[jeffburg]

oh that's cool, I didn't realize LaunchBar was built for OpenStep.

[wmlive]

Found this website 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/ 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.

In Linux, it just requires a recent Ruby installation and can then be easily installed by just executing:

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gem install wayback_machine_downloader_straw (as described in the README).

[ptek]

Browsing through 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.

  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.

[Rhetorica]

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, it was the only real collection of Rhapsody software that I knew of; all the PEAK mirrors seem to strip it out.