Derived from Paul Rand's canonical version. The first two are stencils; the third has restored colors matching the original specifications.

This is the latest version of the Previous NeXT emulator. It uses SDL 3.5 and is compiled against Npcap. The same build can also be obtained from previous.nextcommunity.net.

This build has working PCAP networking on modern Windows. You must install Npcap to take advantage of it.

Previous version 4.4 improves audio output. Last commit: 2026-07-07.

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

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 Windows icon pack derived from the NeXT icons (but selected and contorted to fit with Windows system paradigms); this one preserves the color and alpha channels of Ohlfs's work from the 3.x era, without excluding anything simply because it has no obvious use when skinning a particular operating system.

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.

3052 mostly duplicate-free icons converted into PNG at 48x48 px. See details above.

Icons extracted from NeXT Mach-O binaries. 222 ICO files, 223 PNG files, and 255 TIFF files. Although we often think of NeXT applications as .app bundles containing lots of loosely-packed file resources, the original convention is to store the main icon directly in the binary. This is also used to retrieve the icons used for file type associations. Consequently nearly all collections of NeXT icons lack some of the most frequently-seen images! This compilation specifically addresses this problem, using my OPENSTEP 4.2 for Mach VM with WebOjects 3.5 as a base.

NeXT mouse cursors. Most of these are extracted from Grab.app, but I went the extra mile and used screenshots to get fixed versions of the I-Beam and working icons with correct alpha. Also includes the black and white animated version of the spinning disk icon. (Very old versions of NeXTStep only used a non-animated version.)

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!

A mirror of the OpenStep spec as hosted by the GNUstep Project. Copyright date is 1994. HTML version is not ideal and has numerous smashed columns.

Essential downloads necessary to make a new install usable: OmniWeb, CryptoAncienne, Doom, and Opener.

Guide and resources for furnishing and tuning a newly-installed i486 OPENSTEP 4.2 virtual machine under the VirtualBox VM. Includes a Rock Ridge ISO that you can mount inside your VM with all the drivers and other files you'll want.

Mission-critical retrocomputing! The INDeX is a portal/homepage for NeXT machines and other computers stuck with 90s browsers, collecting low-end-friendly services.

SlugSearch! is a fork of FrogFind! optimized for the display capabilities of OmniWeb 3. It strips fewer tags, can be used as a search engine inside OmniWeb, and (evidently) has slightly better uptime.

Various NeXT CD-ROMs, mainly install discs for NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP. If it isn't here, it's probably at fsck.technology.

A mirror of the PEAK FTP server that was formerly hosted at oldcomputers-archive.fr/NeXT — this collection is (notably) newer than the popular next.68k.org mirror of the same, and includes a few files that were submitted to PEAK just before it shut down, including an experimental USB driver. Sadly, as I anticipated, the oldcomputers-archive.fr mirror vanished shortly after I discovered it, but at least it lives on here.

A mirror of ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de's NeXT files, saved in November 2011 by t-rexky. Although it has many files in common with PEAK, no systematic mirroring was performed, and there are many unique survivals that were lost to the public until we put this copy online in late August 2025. Notable finds include numerous Rhapsody and Windows builds not extant elsewhere.

Various documentation for NeXT and third-party products. Includes documentation from Asmodai's NeXT-Docs repo, containing the System Administrator's Manual and Developer Docs from version 3.3, plus NeXTSTEP IN FOCUS magazine. (These are not mobile-friendly; uses frames.) See the INDeX front page for more documentation resources hosted elsewhere.