rec.autos.simulators

I have heard some good things about BeOs, wondering if anyone has tried it
for ***?

  I have seen only a very few demos, but it looked very powerful.
however, Microsoft has made windows such a part of pc ***, you will
find it very difficult to get other operating systems to play games.
They would have to emulate not only the windows enviroment, but the
DirectX stuff and have the proper video I/O setup so the present day
pc video cards could work with beos.  I just don't see it happening.  
  I "think" on a very SMALL SCALE you will see some games ported to work
with LINUX but the effort there will make the MAC/iMac *** scene look
immense.
dave henrie
(just my hunches, nothing more)

I'm using BeOS R4.5.2 on a P2 400 to reply to this.  Makes a VERY NICE general
purpose OS or an audio/video workstation.  There are currently very few games
for BeOS, however.  Quake 2 has been ported, as well as the original Descent.
WildCard designs is working on ports of Shogo and Civ: Call to Power.  SimCity
3000 is supposedly in the works also.  Keep in mind that only voodoo 2 and
voodoo 3 currently have hardware acceleration under Be.

On my machine I dual boot BeOS and Win9x.  Windows for *** and BeOS for
everything else.  It's a great OS, but the hardware support is limited.
Make sure you check out the compatibility list at http://www.racesimcentral.net/ before
you buy!

Regards,
Diego

    I have BeOS 4.5, though I don't have it installed at the moment.  It has
the makings of a good *** OS because it is very multimedia optimized, but
I don't see anyone rushing to port anything to it.   My VooDoo3/3000 is
supported out of the box, but the SBLive! is not yet supported, at least not
the last time I checked a month or so ago.  It has some OpenGL demo stuff in
it that gets absurd framerates like 165fps with a demo of a spinning teapot
on my V3.

    It reads and writes VFAT, but all this DX stuff is as alien to BeOS as
it is to any other Non-MS OS.  As far as using an emulator, BeOS does not
pretend not to be a resource hog, so expecting something emulated within it
to run very well is optimistic, at best.  At least with Linux, you are
getting a lot out of your hardware so you might have some left to run games.
You also don't have a zillion people working together to accomplish anything
with it since it is a commercial venture, and a small one at that.

    It looks and runs nice and is 2nd nature to anyone who can negotiate the
Win9x shell or KDE.  The TCP/IP internet stuff works OK, but no major
browser ports, yet, and the one it uses doesn't do Java or JS or even
animated GIFs.  The LAN aspect is kind of underdeveloped and hard to
configure.  They (the developers) feel it should be largely a standalone OS.

    It is really targeted as an adjunct to Windows rather than an
alternative.  I think they would like to make a name as a good environment
for digital video editing and multimedia production.  It would probably run
games well, but no-one is going to bother with it until it has a noticable
share of desktops, which I don't see happening.  Judging from what I have
read from the company, they would just as soon you switch over to Windows to
play games and then switch back when you are done.

Here's the URL for their homepage:

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

There's some good FAQs there.

~daxe

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The SBLive! is natively supported as of the R4.5.2 update (I have an SBLive!
Value, it's working fine).  If you want/need a more capable browser under
BeOS, suggest you look at Opera, which is in late beta stage for Be.  Also,
Sun and Be just announced that Java will be available for BeOS by the end of
the year.  RealPlayer for BeOS should be available in about the same timeframe.

Regards,
Diego

timeframe.

Wow!  A lot happens when you don't pay attention for awhile.

Thanks for the info,

daxe

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  Isn't Beos a development by the guys who did the Amiga Toaster stuff?
I can't remember where I first heard about the os.  I do know they
pushed really hard to get Apple to drop the Apple OS and adopt BE.  
didn't happen tho....:)
dave henrie

I was under the impression it was an os specifically designed for
audio-video stuff.....
but I don' tknow that much.

speedracer

stuff in

That's been Be's angle lately, but honestly I think it will make a fine
general purpose OS (especially once it gets a little more hardware and
software support).

Regards,
Diego