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BeOS projects

kumo — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:02:40 +0000

Well it has been a while but the source code to my BeOS projects seems to have reappeared. I don’t know how complete they are (I didn’t use version control in 2000-2002) and whether they compile or not, so I am trying them out. I have BeOS working in a QEMU emulator (well just ‘Q’ actually) but without network or colour. Trying to download haiku r1 alpha 1 to see how that goes instead. I will be posting updates to a separate tumblelog at http://kumo-beos.tumblr.com/. I don’t suppose there is a version control that works with bfs attributes is there? I would like to stick the code on github, but that would just strip away the all-important attributes, so not very useful!

Haiku under VMWare Fusion

kumo — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:16:25 +0000

Interesting times indeed as I am finally able to run Haiku at a decent speed under OSX (does that make it Haiku.app?). The network works too which is very useful if I am ever going to do anything with my projects.

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I have moved the BeOS open source survey to the “BeOS”:/beos page.

Experiences in emulating BeOS in OSX

kumo — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:18:00 +0000

A couple of nights ago I decided that it was time to see if I could get BeOS to work on my iBook (it worked but it was very slow). The only way I could get it to work was with emulation. I found the information on various places on the Internet but I forgot to note down where I found it from so I am recreating it here (so that at least I don’t forget how it was done).

For now I am trying to use just the simple BeOS 5 Personal Edition.

Download the BeOS R5 Personal Edition for Linux from BeBits
Extract the file that you just downloaded and if you want to, place image.be and floppy.img somewhere
Install _qemu_ which is a PC emulator. I installed it from http://stegefin.free.fr/qemu/qemu.dmg as suggested on the Haiku Wiki

At this point, you should open up a Terminal window and cd to the location where image.be and floppy.img are. Both files are needed to get BeOS PE to run and so the following should be typed:

qemu -fda floppy.img -hda image.be -boot a -m 128 -user-net

-fda floppy.img: The floppy disk is _floppy.img_
-hda image.be: The hard disk is _image.be_
-boot a: Boot from drive a
-m 128: Provide 128 meg of memory
-user-net: Creates a private network (?)

After a while BeOS will be running in greyscale. Either I would have to enable the safe video mode everytime I booted BeOS or I would have to use one of the pieces of software on BeBits to force the video mode. I couldn’t get the network to work so I was stuck with the problem of how to transfer files to BeOS. I tried to make a dmg but it didn’t work so in the end I made a CD image using the following command:

hdiutil makehybrid -o stuff_for_beos.iso -iso DIRECTORY

At that point the CD image can be passed to qemu by adding -cdrom ISONAME to the qemu command:

qemu -fda floppy.img -hda image.be -cdrom stuff_for_beos.iso -boot a -m 128 -user-net

BeOS apps

kumo — Tue, 23 May 2006 03:04:00 +0000

I am wondering if I should bother making the source code to my old BeOS applications available… does anyone care at all?

Repliman Desktop Fix

kumo — Sun, 14 Mar 2004 10:29:00 +0000

Added new version of repliman. You should download this only if you have problems seeing the Desktop replicants.

Attr Tools Update

kumo — Sat, 08 Nov 2003 11:30:00 +0000

Updated the attr_tools, now attributes can be renamed. Page can be found “here”:/beos/attr_tools.

Net Positive Buttons

kumo — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 10:30:00 +0000

Buttons are appearing all over the internet so I made my NetPositive compliant button here.

Attr Tools Release

kumo — Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:30:00 +0000

I rewrote some of the *attr commands that ship with BeOS to show more information about the attributes. Page can be found “here”:/pages/beos/attr_tools.

People.iro v0.2b

kumo — Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:31:00 +0000

New version of People.iro (v0.2b). I need to update the documentation and screen shots of this page.