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 | White / Black / CMYK | Extracted from a .vdesigner archive on NeXTfiles and converted into nice, portable SVG. All have transparent backgrounds. |
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Previous for Windows | Previous-3.3-MinGW64-r1502-filesharing.zip (NEWEST) | 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. |
Previous-3.2-MinGW64-r1449-trunk.zip | 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 | NeXT-sounds-wav.zip | Default alert sound effects retrieved from OPENSTEP 4.2. Converted into Microsoft Wave format, which pretty much everything can open these days. |
NeXT Icons | NeXT-icons-windows-2.0.zip | 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 | Tile / Inactive | 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 | Browse / PDF | A mirror of the OpenStep spec as hosted by the GNUstep Project. Copyright date is 1994. HTML is not quite perfect. |
Various Files | ./software/ | Various collected files for NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, Rhapsody, and Mac OS X Server. |