Need help with finding drivers for the Trident Cyber9385 and ESS AudioDrive 1688

Posted by Shvabrikkk@reddit | retrobattlestations | View on Reddit | 2 comments

I'm a big fan of IBM ThinkPad and NeXT, I've been searching for Cyber9385 and ESS AudioDrive 1688 drivers for about five days, but I can't find anything other than what I mentioned. I really want to have NeXTSTEP 3.3 on thinkpad 760xl, but I'm already feeling physically exhausted and my head hurting from the failure to find drivers

I know for now that

ES1x88AudioDriver.config for ESS AudioDrive 1688

IBMThinkPad760EDDisplayDriver.config or IBMThinkPad760CDDisplayDriver.pkg, also may Trident Generic driver exist for Trident Cyber9385

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NUCLEAR_POWERED_BEAR@reddit

OPENSTEP for Mach 4.2 has bundled drivers for both your sound and video cards. Personally I would just install OS4.2 on the ThinkPad and be done with it.

If you're really dead set on using NeXTSTEP 3.3 you could try extracting the ESS1x88AudioDriver.config and IBMThinkPad760EDDisplayDriver.config from the OPENSTEP install disc image's /private/Drivers/i386 path (you might need to mount the disc image in a VM running NS3.x/OS4.x or one of the emulated NeXT machines from infinitemac.org in order to retrieve the drivers), then sneakernet them over to your ThinkPad via floppy. I haven't tested this myself and I don't know if the drivers are backwards compatible with NS3.3.

Junior_Budget_3721@reddit

Have you tried thinkpadforum? I found all my 770z drivers there, including the trident cyberdvd 9397 and ess drivers.