BeOs

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

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 [link lost in import] before you buy! Regards, Diego

>I have heard some good things about BeOs, wondering if anyone has tried it >for ***? 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: [link lost in import] There's some good FAQs there. ~daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

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

>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. Wow! A lot happens when you don't pay attention for awhile. Thanks for the info, daxe -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----

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

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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 > >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

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

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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 > > 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 > > >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

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