11 Mar
2005
11 Mar
'05
5:47 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 21:26 -0500, Joe R. wrote:
Amen. Any system with *four* MIDI ports ain't your nephew's PC. ;)
I have several commercial multimedia apps written for BeOS PPC. They
came with the box, and I haven't done much with them past "ooh,
Shiney!", but they seem to be pretty tightly desinged.
As far as I can tell/remember, commercial application support wasn't
wide, but tended to be toward the high-end, especially in multimedia.
Doc
I picked up a Cd and manuals for BeOS today.
Anybody here use it? What
do you think of it?
It's pretty slick for the time, although I suppose all the nicer
features have been copied now within modern OSes. The integration
between desktop and command-line shell is nicely done.
I picked up a dual 133MHz Bebox a while back which I took over to
Bletchley, but I just haven't had time to play around with it much
since.
Far as I'm aware, there are quite a few free apps and utils out there
for the OS. I'll have a look tomorrow when I'm at the museum and see
which version of the OS it is that ours runs. I know the standard web
browser on our one barfs at just about anything and badly needs an
upgrade (although I think you can put Firefox on there)
Overall, nice classic OS (running on nice classic hardware in this case
- even if it doesn't quite fall within the ten year rule :)