OpenStep drivers for USB storage, audio and PCMCIA on a ThinkPad 570
Claude Opus wrote OpenStep drivers for USB storage, the CS4614 audio chip and NE2000 PCMCIA network cards for a ThinkPad 570.
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New DriverKit drivers for OPENSTEP 4.2, NeXT's last OPENSTEP release, written by Claude Opus in 2026 to get an IBM ThinkPad 570 fully working.
They cover the Cirrus Logic CS4614 sound chip (playback and mixer, no recording), NE2000 Ethernet including DL10019 and DL10022 PC Cards, a helper for TI CardBus bridges so OPENSTEP can see the PC Card slots, and USB mass storage on the Intel PIIX4 controller.
The drivers should help other machines with the same chips, though some PC Card models may need their identifiers added.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built some Openstep driversReddit poster: TheNoxierPosted
The maker's post in r/vintagecomputing.
- The code: github.comRepository account: SLSX
The drivers' source code, with a status table for each one.
- Reddit: I built some Openstep driversReddit poster: TheNoxierPosted
The same post in r/retrocomputing.