Okay, so um, I don't know if this is in the proper section, but what ever, it will get moved by the lord of [bold text with brackets stater] so, I have a computer with BeOS 5.0 and I was wondering, first what the he** is it, and second, were there any games for it?
There is also google...
So far I have found kumo-beos(tumbler) Games software for Beos BeOSnews BeBits(might be usefull) and even more, did I hear you want the original site? Well, here it is.
It's fun to mess around with, but I never managed to do much practical with it.
It's slightly strange that (like so many Linux distributions) they quietly bury the command terminal deep in a menu somewhere, when you actually need that terminal to do some things, despite it being a "multimedia OS".
It saddens me that it was killed, I really think it's great.
beos was awesome, it could do stuff like run multiple avi files that put windows to shame
you should watch this (and part 2)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggCODBIfWKY&feature=related
Guardian of the Sacred Five Terabyte's of Gaming Goodness
wrote:It saddens me that it was killed, I really think it's great.
Well, you can always resort to Haiku.
I have traveled across the universe and through the years to find Her.
Sometimes going all the way is just a start...
I have the original promo video, although it is on youtube, it's just somehow better to watch it no on youtube. 😒
Might want to start here: http://www.bebits.com/browse/2
Though a lot of it looks outdated to me. Doom, Duke3D, Quake1/2 run OK on it, as long as you have proper drivers for your graphics card.
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I already posted that i my second post, but thanks for the input.
Whoops, didn't notice that the first time, my bad. 😮
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No problem, I won't send a CuthuluSnorlax after you.
There a few commmercial games and official ports:
Corum III
Hopkins FBI
Civilization Call To Power
Doom
Quake
Quake2
Abuse.
A Quake3 port exists, it works best with a Voodoo3 card and the leaked Voodoo3/OpenGL driver.
This driver can be used to play Quake2 in HW-accelerated OpenGL as well.
A leaked port of Worms Armageddon exists.
There are a lot of SDL games and emulators for 8/16bit consoles.
Apparently the GoBe Productive suite was the descendent of ClarisWorks (later AppleWorks) for the Macintosh, which I spent so many years with during high school. But given that it was ported to Windows, that's not much of a reason to use BeOS. (I wish they would release it as freeware one way or another.)
wrote:Okay, so um, I don't know if this is in the proper section, but what ever, it will get moved by the lord of [bold text with brackets stater] so, I have a computer with BeOS 5.0 and I was wondering, first what the he** is it, and second, were there any games for it?
The question nobody has asked yet (but should have) is: Is this an actual BeBox we are talking about here? They are somewhat rare and coveted machines among collectors.
If we're speaking of a BeBox, the list of commercial games is quite shorter than the one I posted above (there's Doom), but you can run MacOS 7.5.2 to 8.6 using SheepShaver and MacOS games from the era at native speed, that should entertain you for some time.
I liked BeOS so much that I got this:
Pretty buggy really, BeOS 5 was better.
BeOS was a fairly slick multimedia centric OS that came out in the late 90's or so which could do things like run liveCD at a time liveCD's were rare, and would run on line a Pentium 100 well still. It had more usefulness for applications than games. It probably has no modern use except as a novelty.
