That's a good question, video capture, mp3 playback, a nicely documented system to program for, out of the box, it was nice at the time.
For the most well known games, you have the classic ID FPSes, Abuse, Hopkins FBI, Worms Armageddon, Civilization Call to Power and there's the only english port of Corum III if you're into korean RPG (a bit too niche perhaps!), and antique ports of Dosbox and Scummvm are available.
Sure, the printer support was (and is) almost non existent, and nowadays the web browser is quite clearly outdated, but it made computing fun again for a while, for me atleast.
I'll admit I never really tried OS/2, so I should change that sometime.

Cheers. I might install it for giggles some time. I note that Corum III appears to be out for Windows, too, but if it was BeOS only for the English port that's definitely a differentiating factor.

OS/2 - great at the time, not so much now. Games wise Galactic Civilisations 2 still stands out. Links looked lovely at the time, but I was never in to golf. Avarice had impressive visuals for the time, but is a flawed game and a decent illustration of providing too much choice to the player. Hopkins FBI is also available for OS/2 but gathered poor reviews for its gameplay. There were various other games, but nothing I can remember standing out.

There's a couple of interesting drawing and networking apps I'm keeping a VM around for.

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lolo799 wrote:

Finding it is easy, and you can always use the personal edition in case nobody helps you track down an BeOS 5 disc or .iso image.

Yeah. I know that there are plenty of pirated iso's out there. I just don't want to do it.
Besides, that I don't know how to burn any of those correctly. So eighter buy an original or I just avoid BeOS.
I will be looking for a cheap original none the less.

Wasn't personal edition available for free from the beginning? I may be mistaken.

Yes. The personal edition was for free. The pro version came on cd. Had a bootfloppy manuals and some software on the install cd.

You could always try HaikuOS

I have a lot of project's at the moment. First I have to make the time for arranging my daughters birthday on saturday.
Yeah.... 7 years old.... And where did those years fly away to? 😳

Then I have to complete that 486 that I have planned for, and finally I have to find time to sell off some of my Socket-A stuff.
After all that, I have the time to take a second look at this machine. Have made a test installation, and it runs good.
Now I need to source an original BeOS, that I can buy for a low cost. The goal is still Os/2 + BeOS in dualboot.
Just to have something non-microsoft in my collection of running machines.

Could be years before it is completely finished. I just do not mind waiting that long for it to be finished.
Might buy an Amiga-PPC down the road, before my BeBox are finished. Or possible have a fork of AROS in the "BeBox" too.