One of my hobbies is rummaging around in vintage computer technology of the 1990s and earlier. Although I (usually) have no nostalgia for these systems personally, they always make me feel reverential and inspired. Here are some tributes to my current obsession, NeXT.

NeXT Logos

Extracted from a .vdesigner archive on NeXTfiles and converted into nice, portable SVG. All have transparent backgrounds.

Previous for Windows

Built from andreas_g's "filesharing" branch, this version of the NeXT emulator uses SDL3 and is compiled against Npcap. It has working PCAP networking on modern Windows. You must install Npcap to use it. Last commit: 2024-08-17. This is my latest build.

Built from the trunk, this version of Andreas Grabher's NeXT emulator is a recent SDL2 version of the Previous emulator for NeXT 68k computers. It is much newer than the ancient Windows builds I've found elsewhere. Last commit: 2024-05-03.

NeXT Sounds

Default alert sound effects retrieved from OPENSTEP 4.2. Converted into Microsoft Wave format, which pretty much everything can open these days.

NeXT Icons

2949 mostly duplicate-free icons converted into Windows .ico format at 48x48, 32x32, and 16x16 px. Icons were harvested from NEXTSTEP 4.0 PR1 (the ill-fated redesign), OPENSTEP 4.2, several NeXT samplers, PEANUTS, BGL5, and NEBULA. Years ago there was a terrible 256-color conversion; this one preserves the full 12-bit glory and 4-bit alpha of Ohlfs's work.

Version 2.0 adds many, MANY icons from outside the base install, including many that NeXT users would have seen on a regular basis. I also did something slightly non-conservational and removed that f&!@ing stuck pixel from the disk icon wherever I could find it.

HUDstep Tiles

Assets from a beleagured project to recreate some of the aesthetics of the NeXT desktop. These are 256x256, 24-bit approximations of the Workspace Manager dock tile backgrounds, although the bevel is slightly different. Useful for modern high-res displays!

OpenStep Spec

A mirror of the OpenStep spec as hosted by the GNUstep Project. Copyright date is 1994. HTML is not quite perfect.

Various Files

Various collected files for NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, and Mac OS X Server.

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