Hello folks!
I put the idea of a sticky post with a listing of all known NextStep/OpenStep software archives to the Mothership. Nitro responded that he's fine with making it sticky..
This will just be a start - unquestionably I am not familiar with all the archives now extant, so PLEASE do respond with more URLs and I'll add them in!
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/NeXT - the oldest archive still online from its original URL, the progenitor of the nextcomputers.org excellent NeXTfiles archive. This was, I believe, put together by Joacim Mellin for the earlier NeXT hobbyist site
http://next.z80.org (how many folks here were on that?) and passed along to the founders of nextcomputers.org...
http://nextcomputers.org/NeXTfiles - our own excellent archive, with many more bytes of information added over the past decade+
http://nextcube.org - click download, then use 'me' and 'next' in the authentication window
- the OnionMixer archive
https://ftp.nice.ch - the very nice archive of the former NeXT User Group in Zurich, Switzerland, I recommend it highly
http://next.haleblian.com - Ray Haleblian's new archive, including KB7SQI's software split out as separate pkg or tgz files
http://www.nleymann.de/Nextstep/index.htm - Nicolas Leymann's "Mini Archiv', incl. Amaya, the X11 html editor/web browser from the W3C (run it under CubX-Window or other NS X11 server)
http://www.wizards.de/~frank/franksprojects.html - Frank Siegert's interesting collection of NS software, incl. a Columbia Appletalk Protocol pkg with a nice NextStep frontend
The archive.org ftp archives contains an upload of Timothy Luomat's Peak Archive, formerly at
ftp://next.peak.org (this is where much of my NS software came from, many many moons ago)
https://fsck.technology/software/NeXT/NeXTSTEP%20Applications/ - Large collection of commercial NextStep software
Bonus: Documentation
NextStep User's Guide is available :
https://archive.org/download/ne-xtstep-user-guide-1994 https://www.scribd.com/document/372057826/Nextstep-User-Guide-1994Network and System Administration Manual
http://www.cilinder.be/docs/next/NeXTStep/3.3/nsa/ http://www.nextcomputers.org/files/manuals/nsaNextStep 3.3 Developer Documentation Manuals
http://www.cilinder.be/docs/next/NeXTStep/3.3/nd/ http://www.nextcomputers.org/files/manuals/nd/ Also avail. at
https://www.nextop.deThe latter two were produced by Randy Rencsok (look at www.channelu.com in archive.org ~2010). He also bought/sold NeXT hardware - I think I may remember he bought the CIA or NSA's supply when they stopped using NeXTs...
https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/computing/nextstep-openstep - a fantastic archive of NeXT documents, incl NeXTAnswers
FWIW, I have (potentially incomplete) captures of the following archives on my NAS:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ***** staff 2671702346 20 Nov 2011 ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de.tar.gz
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ***** staff 1282767839 17 Oct 2011 kb7sqi_Packages.zip
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ***** staff 4016572786 14 Jul 2013 next-ftp.peak.org.tar.gz
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ***** staff 10972134859 29 Jan 2012 next.68k.org.tar.gz
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ***** staff 683852052 29 Apr 2017 nextftp.onionmixer.net.tar.gz
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ***** staff 12549714 17 Oct 2011 www.famkoplien.de.zip
-rwxrwxrwx 1 ***** staff 177940696 17 Oct 2011 www.math.unl.edu.zip
Very glad you have these, t-rexky! Comparison with the above archives would be good in order to see what gems might be unearthed.
Excellent to see the peak.org archive - that is, I believe, the direct descendent of one of the two main NextStep software FTP sites from when NeXT was still in business, cs.orst.edu (CompSci dept at Oregon State Univ). Tim Luoma curated peak.org, I got all my software from there back in the 2001-2004 timeframe...along with poking through the cs.tu-berlin.de site.
And great - Henry Koplien's site! I vaguely remember he was quite interested in audio or video under NextSt, and posted quite a bit on the comp.next.* USENET newgroups...
Many thanks, sir!
I would be happy to upload these somewhere if there is a location with sufficient capacity...
Quote from: t-rexky on June 16, 2022, 03:47:49 PMI would be happy to upload these somewhere if there is a location with sufficient capacity...
archive.org would totally allow you to upload each of these individually!
Please note that Ray Haleblian's archive is now at
http://retro.haleblian.com/next/
I've been meaning to add another site to this list for quite some time now: point your favorite FTP program to ftp://ftp.atlas.altexxa.net/software/nextstep-openstep/
Huge archive of software for our favorite computing platform...
Also, Herr Leymann has re-organized his website - his mini-archive of NS software is now at
http://nleymann.de/welcome/nextstep-mini-archivCheers all!