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Magnussoft / YellowTab Zeta, any interest in this OS?

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First post, by Nexxen

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I came across my old discs with this OS, I remember trying it on an Athlon 1400 and having issues, frequently requiring a fresh reinstall.

Cannot see any interest in this after Haiku.

Just a quick poll to listen to experts on this rather old OS.

Thanks for any contribution.

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Reply 1 of 6, by Babasha

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Zeta was too late and strange thing.

Bootleg with closed source and proprietary Libzeta.so library non-compatible in whole with BeOS and no contacts with "upcoming" Haiku-OS

So BeOS users and developers do not switch to it.

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Reply 2 of 6, by Nexxen

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Babasha wrote on 2025-06-16, 13:47:

Zeta was too late and strange thing.

Bootleg with closed source and proprietary Libzeta.so library non-compatible in whole with BeOS and no contacts with "upcoming" Haiku-OS

So BeOS users and developers do not switch to it.

I remember them having legal issues that in the end halted the whole thing.
When it came out I thought I had found the alternative to Windows but it was nothing like it, more business oriented IIRC.

Also, hardware upgrades weren't smooth by other people posting about it.

Well, it didn't catch on.

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Reply 3 of 6, by Jo22

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Same here. I still remember watching the Zeta ads on RTL shop..
At the time, Windows 98SE was aging and XP was seen as being too power hungry.
While I knew that Zeta was a scam, I silently held some hopes for it.
Because it was on TV, on a popular shopping channel, it had certain chances to become OS number #4 in my country, after Win/Lin/Mac.
It also reminded me of BeOS 5 Personal Edition, which I had installed as an image on Windows 98SE.
BeOS was the snappy multimedia OS of the 90s that we had been promissed, instead of what we actually got (Linux, the consolation prize).

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Reply 4 of 6, by lolo799

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There are a handful of software/games that only exist for Zeta, such as Robin Hood the legend of Sherwood, Airline Tycoon Deluxe, Refraction and more.
It's worth keeping as a separate partition on a BeOS compatible machine.

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Reply 5 of 6, by Nexxen

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lolo799 wrote on 2025-06-21, 18:16:

There are a handful of software/games that only exist for Zeta, such as Robin Hood the legend of Sherwood, Airline Tycoon Deluxe, Refraction and more.
It's worth keeping as a separate partition on a BeOS compatible machine.

Is there a list available?

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PC#2 PIII-1Ghz - 98SE/W2K
"One hates the specialty unobtainium parts, the other laughs in greed listing them under a ridiculous price" - kotel studios

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