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Title: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: ZombiePhysicist on Sep 08, 2025, 03:17 AM
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

History Resources

Previous NeXT Emulator Resources

Webby Resources


Other Resources
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: Rhetorica on Sep 09, 2025, 12:05 AM
Now some classics...

Informational Resources

(More) Software Archives

NeXT Proprietary Source Code on GitHub
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: ptek on Sep 30, 2025, 04:05 AM
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/)
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: jeffburg on Sep 30, 2025, 05:00 AM
oh that's cool, I didn't realize LaunchBar was built for OpenStep.
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: wmlive on Sep 30, 2025, 08:00 PM
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:
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gem install wayback_machine_downloader_straw (as described in the README).
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: ptek on Sep 30, 2025, 09:59 PM
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.
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: Rhetorica on Sep 30, 2025, 10:23 PM
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.
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: Protocol 7 on Oct 01, 2025, 10:40 AM
The Big Green CD 8 also had a good selection of Rhapsody stuff.
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: ptek on Apr 06, 2026, 11:59 AM
sticky
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: Rhetorica on Apr 06, 2026, 10:03 PM
stuck
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: jeffburg on Apr 07, 2026, 12:23 AM
@Rhetorica is there an rss feed endpoint for this part of The Index?
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: Rhetorica on Apr 07, 2026, 12:31 AM
Quote from: jeffburg on Apr 07, 2026, 12:23 AM@Rhetorica is there an rss feed endpoint for this part of The Index?
An RSS feed aggregation... of an RSS feed aggregator. Brilliant idea! I'll see what I can do.
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: Rhetorica on Apr 14, 2026, 11:26 PM
Quote from: jeffburg on Apr 07, 2026, 12:23 AM@Rhetorica is there an rss feed endpoint for this part of The Index?
It is now done! Add http://index.nextcommunity.net/rss.star to your RSS 2.0 ingestion routine. (Please note that it only shows the latest item from each feed—slightly more than what the front page shows, which is limited to the latest item from the 20 most recently-updated blogs, but still not that much, so headlines may slip through the cracks if someone posts a bunch of items in rapid succession, e.g. a posting spree on a forum. That is probably for the best, really.)
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: jeffburg on Apr 17, 2026, 12:51 AM
awesome! thanks will do!
Title: Re: List of NeXT related resources
Post by: ptek on May 17, 2026, 10:15 AM
TjL's NeXTStep/OpenStep Site (https://web.archive.org/web/20050212110429/http://www.peak.org/~luomat/) also has some information about swap files. (https://web.archive.org/web/20050212154711/http://www.peak.org/~luomat/articles/FAQs/Swapfile_Swapdisk/)
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