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BeOS 3.0 on 86Box with Socket 8 [1995]
BeOS 3.0 was a version of BeOS that was first made available for traditional Intel computers, alongside the PowerPC architecture. It was available for purchase at $69.95 then raised to $99.95.
Our focus in this article is testing BeOS 3.0 on an 86Box emulated machine with a Socket 8 [1995] motherboard. You can download it from here. However, you’ll have to create separate ISO files for the two tracks that were found in the BIN/CUE format:
- The first track is for the partitioning tool for Windows 95
- The second track is for the BeOS installation
You can use
bchunk beos-3.0.bin beos-3.0.cue beos-3.0.isoto get the two ISO files for the above tracks. Please note that you’ll also need to install Windows 95 in order to be able to install BeOS 3.0.We’ve configured the virtual machine as follows:
We’ve configured a virtual machine to run with:
- Machine type: [1995] Socket 8
- Machine: [i440FX] Intel AP440FX (Apollo)
- CPU: Intel Pentium II Overdrive @ 100 MHz
- Memory: 32 MB
- Video: [ISA16] Cirrus Logic GD5434
- Keyboard: AT Keyboard
- Mouse: PS/2 Mouse
- Sound card: [ISA16] Sound Blaster 16 PnP
- Floppy disk controller: Internal device
- Hard disk controller 1: Internal device
- New hard disk: os2warp452.vhd
- C/H/S: 2080/16/63
- Size: 1024 MB
- Bus: IDE
- Channel: 0:0
- CD-ROM drive 1: ATAPI (0:1) HITACHI CDR-8130 0020 (16x)
Once everything is configured as above, we can now start the virtual machine. Before installing Windows 95 prior to BeOS 3.0, we need to change the following BIOS settings to ensure that BeOS can start successfully:
Now, let’s assume that Windows 95 has been successfully installed to the virtual machine. Insert the first disc called
beos-3.0.iso01.isoto the CD-ROM reader, then let Windows start.Open My Computer, then double-click on the BeOS logo to start the installation wizard for the PartitionMagic Special Edition partitioner.
Now, follow the steps to install this software.
As soon as you click Finish, Windows exits and the partitioner starts in a completely separate environment.
Since we need half the size of the Windows partition, we just need to click OK, then confirm the changes. Afterwards, the resize operation starts.
After the resize completes, you’ll be prompted to restart the virtual machine. Let it restart to Windows.
Once Windows starts, go to My Computer, then right-click on the CD-ROM drive (the BeOS icon), then navigate to experimental > Win95, and copy the BeLaunch folder to the root of the C: drive where Windows is installed.
After that, insert the second ISO file for the BeOS installer, just like below. Then, open the BeLaunch folder, and double-click on “BeOS Launcher”.
Wait for BeOS to start up…
You should be taken to a license agreement screen where you have to click Accept to continue the installation.
After that, make sure that the installer has automatically selected the newly-created BeOS partition created by PartitionMagic Special Edition. You can verify that by checking the partition ID, as well as the file system type. It should say “unknown”.
Press Begin, then let BeOS initialize the partition, just like below:
After initialization, the installation starts.
The installation should be successful at this point. Press Quit below.
Let the virtual machine reboot back to Windows. In case it hangs on the below screen (the
tntatswindow), release the mouse control and press the reset icon.Once Windows restarts, double-click on the BeOS Launcher icon. Afterwards, BeOS should automatically recognize the installed system. You should see the desktop below:
The installation is successful at this point! Here’s a demo screenshot of BeOS 3.0 installed alongside Windows 95.
Of course, when you try to shut down BeOS, you should see this window, since we have disabled APM:
#86Box #BeOS #BeOS3 #BeOS30 #news #Retrocomputing #Tech #Technology #update -
🍂 Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-haiku-arm64-progress/19044?page=2
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The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
｢ Dual-CPU was rare in 1995. If you wanted two processors you needed a server-class motherboard and two physical sockets, a configuration most consumers had never seen and most workstation buyers paid through the nose for ｣
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/bebox-beautifully-overbuilt-computer/
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The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
｢ Dual-CPU was rare in 1995. If you wanted two processors you needed a server-class motherboard and two physical sockets, a configuration most consumers had never seen and most workstation buyers paid through the nose for ｣
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/bebox-beautifully-overbuilt-computer/
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The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
｢ Dual-CPU was rare in 1995. If you wanted two processors you needed a server-class motherboard and two physical sockets, a configuration most consumers had never seen and most workstation buyers paid through the nose for ｣
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/bebox-beautifully-overbuilt-computer/
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The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
｢ Dual-CPU was rare in 1995. If you wanted two processors you needed a server-class motherboard and two physical sockets, a configuration most consumers had never seen and most workstation buyers paid through the nose for ｣
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/bebox-beautifully-overbuilt-computer/
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The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't
｢ Dual-CPU was rare in 1995. If you wanted two processors you needed a server-class motherboard and two physical sockets, a configuration most consumers had never seen and most workstation buyers paid through the nose for ｣
https://www.jdhodges.com/blog/bebox-beautifully-overbuilt-computer/
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👨💻 Oh, look! It's another hipster utopia in the form of an #OS nobody asked for! 🤓 #Haiku wants to resurrect #BeOS and promises to be "fast" and "simple," just like how I promise to exercise every day. 🙄 Just in time to mentor students who will be thrilled to code for a relic that refuses to die—move over, Windows 95! 👻
https://www.haiku-os.org #hipsterutopia #resurrection #fastandsimple #codingrelic #Windows95 #HackerNews #ngated -
👨💻 Oh, look! It's another hipster utopia in the form of an #OS nobody asked for! 🤓 #Haiku wants to resurrect #BeOS and promises to be "fast" and "simple," just like how I promise to exercise every day. 🙄 Just in time to mentor students who will be thrilled to code for a relic that refuses to die—move over, Windows 95! 👻
https://www.haiku-os.org #hipsterutopia #resurrection #fastandsimple #codingrelic #Windows95 #HackerNews #ngated -
👨💻 Oh, look! It's another hipster utopia in the form of an #OS nobody asked for! 🤓 #Haiku wants to resurrect #BeOS and promises to be "fast" and "simple," just like how I promise to exercise every day. 🙄 Just in time to mentor students who will be thrilled to code for a relic that refuses to die—move over, Windows 95! 👻
https://www.haiku-os.org #hipsterutopia #resurrection #fastandsimple #codingrelic #Windows95 #HackerNews #ngated -
👨💻 Oh, look! It's another hipster utopia in the form of an #OS nobody asked for! 🤓 #Haiku wants to resurrect #BeOS and promises to be "fast" and "simple," just like how I promise to exercise every day. 🙄 Just in time to mentor students who will be thrilled to code for a relic that refuses to die—move over, Windows 95! 👻
https://www.haiku-os.org #hipsterutopia #resurrection #fastandsimple #codingrelic #Windows95 #HackerNews #ngated -
👨💻 Oh, look! It's another hipster utopia in the form of an #OS nobody asked for! 🤓 #Haiku wants to resurrect #BeOS and promises to be "fast" and "simple," just like how I promise to exercise every day. 🙄 Just in time to mentor students who will be thrilled to code for a relic that refuses to die—move over, Windows 95! 👻
https://www.haiku-os.org #hipsterutopia #resurrection #fastandsimple #codingrelic #Windows95 #HackerNews #ngated -
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Arrived home to newly acquired, old books. I read all three of these in my youth, but I foolishly gave away my copy of “Programming the Be Operating System”,when I left the UK, and two of my Spike Milligan memoirs were lost in a cellar flood in Munich. I feel a wonderful circular sense of completeness now. #beos #haikuOS #books
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Arrived home to newly acquired, old books. I read all three of these in my youth, but I foolishly gave away my copy of “Programming the Be Operating System”,when I left the UK, and two of my Spike Milligan memoirs were lost in a cellar flood in Munich. I feel a wonderful circular sense of completeness now. #beos #haikuOS #books
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Arrived home to newly acquired, old books. I read all three of these in my youth, but I foolishly gave away my copy of “Programming the Be Operating System”,when I left the UK, and two of my Spike Milligan memoirs were lost in a cellar flood in Munich. I feel a wonderful circular sense of completeness now. #beos #haikuOS #books
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Arrived home to newly acquired, old books. I read all three of these in my youth, but I foolishly gave away my copy of “Programming the Be Operating System”,when I left the UK, and two of my Spike Milligan memoirs were lost in a cellar flood in Munich. I feel a wonderful circular sense of completeness now. #beos #haikuOS #books
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Arrived home to newly acquired, old books. I read all three of these in my youth, but I foolishly gave away my copy of “Programming the Be Operating System”,when I left the UK, and two of my Spike Milligan memoirs were lost in a cellar flood in Munich. I feel a wonderful circular sense of completeness now. #beos #haikuOS #books
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #FrogFind #BeOS #SeaMonkey
Catch of the Day: The Operating System of the Future That Stayed in the Past! 🐝💻
Hey Retro Fans!
Today, we get to celebrate a very special guest in the FrogFind logs. A user found their way to us using the SeaMonkey browser on BeOS!For those who weren't active in the tech scene in the late 90s: BeOS was the absolute dream of every power user. It was written from scratch by former Apple developers and specifically optimized for multimedia and true multitasking on multiprocessor systems. It was incredibly fast, stable, and featured a beautiful user interface.
In fact, in late 1996, Apple was very close to buying BeOS to use it as the foundation for the new Mac OS. If that deal had gone through, the computer world would look completely different today! (Apple ultimately chose NeXTSTEP instead and brought Steve Jobs back).
The fact that this technical masterpiece still lives on and is maintained in the retro community today (both the original and its open-source successor, Haiku), and that someone is using it to visit the Frog pond, is a huge honor for us.
May multitasking always be with you!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸 -
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #FrogFind #BeOS #SeaMonkey
Catch of the Day: The Operating System of the Future That Stayed in the Past! 🐝💻
Hey Retro Fans!
Today, we get to celebrate a very special guest in the FrogFind logs. A user found their way to us using the SeaMonkey browser on BeOS!For those who weren't active in the tech scene in the late 90s: BeOS was the absolute dream of every power user. It was written from scratch by former Apple developers and specifically optimized for multimedia and true multitasking on multiprocessor systems. It was incredibly fast, stable, and featured a beautiful user interface.
In fact, in late 1996, Apple was very close to buying BeOS to use it as the foundation for the new Mac OS. If that deal had gone through, the computer world would look completely different today! (Apple ultimately chose NeXTSTEP instead and brought Steve Jobs back).
The fact that this technical masterpiece still lives on and is maintained in the retro community today (both the original and its open-source successor, Haiku), and that someone is using it to visit the Frog pond, is a huge honor for us.
May multitasking always be with you!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸 -
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #FrogFind #BeOS #SeaMonkey
Catch of the Day: The Operating System of the Future That Stayed in the Past! 🐝💻
Hey Retro Fans!
Today, we get to celebrate a very special guest in the FrogFind logs. A user found their way to us using the SeaMonkey browser on BeOS!For those who weren't active in the tech scene in the late 90s: BeOS was the absolute dream of every power user. It was written from scratch by former Apple developers and specifically optimized for multimedia and true multitasking on multiprocessor systems. It was incredibly fast, stable, and featured a beautiful user interface.
In fact, in late 1996, Apple was very close to buying BeOS to use it as the foundation for the new Mac OS. If that deal had gone through, the computer world would look completely different today! (Apple ultimately chose NeXTSTEP instead and brought Steve Jobs back).
The fact that this technical masterpiece still lives on and is maintained in the retro community today (both the original and its open-source successor, Haiku), and that someone is using it to visit the Frog pond, is a huge honor for us.
May multitasking always be with you!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸 -
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #FrogFind #BeOS #SeaMonkey
Catch of the Day: The Operating System of the Future That Stayed in the Past! 🐝💻
Hey Retro Fans!
Today, we get to celebrate a very special guest in the FrogFind logs. A user found their way to us using the SeaMonkey browser on BeOS!For those who weren't active in the tech scene in the late 90s: BeOS was the absolute dream of every power user. It was written from scratch by former Apple developers and specifically optimized for multimedia and true multitasking on multiprocessor systems. It was incredibly fast, stable, and featured a beautiful user interface.
In fact, in late 1996, Apple was very close to buying BeOS to use it as the foundation for the new Mac OS. If that deal had gone through, the computer world would look completely different today! (Apple ultimately chose NeXTSTEP instead and brought Steve Jobs back).
The fact that this technical masterpiece still lives on and is maintained in the retro community today (both the original and its open-source successor, Haiku), and that someone is using it to visit the Frog pond, is a huge honor for us.
May multitasking always be with you!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸 -
#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #FrogFind #BeOS #SeaMonkey
Catch of the Day: The Operating System of the Future That Stayed in the Past! 🐝💻
Hey Retro Fans!
Today, we get to celebrate a very special guest in the FrogFind logs. A user found their way to us using the SeaMonkey browser on BeOS!For those who weren't active in the tech scene in the late 90s: BeOS was the absolute dream of every power user. It was written from scratch by former Apple developers and specifically optimized for multimedia and true multitasking on multiprocessor systems. It was incredibly fast, stable, and featured a beautiful user interface.
In fact, in late 1996, Apple was very close to buying BeOS to use it as the foundation for the new Mac OS. If that deal had gone through, the computer world would look completely different today! (Apple ultimately chose NeXTSTEP instead and brought Steve Jobs back).
The fact that this technical masterpiece still lives on and is maintained in the retro community today (both the original and its open-source successor, Haiku), and that someone is using it to visit the Frog pond, is a huge honor for us.
May multitasking always be with you!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸 -
On April 22, 1999 @shacker, H. Bortman and C. Herborth released the BeOS Bible, an iconic book about #BeOS. 📕 #HaikuOS #BeOSBible http://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/welcome.html - The book is available at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7407210M/BeOS_Bible_The
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On April 22, 1999 @shacker, H. Bortman and C. Herborth released the BeOS Bible, an iconic book about #BeOS. 📕 #HaikuOS #BeOSBible http://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/welcome.html - The book is available at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7407210M/BeOS_Bible_The
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On April 22, 1999 @shacker, H. Bortman and C. Herborth released the BeOS Bible, an iconic book about #BeOS. 📕 #HaikuOS #BeOSBible http://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/welcome.html - The book is available at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7407210M/BeOS_Bible_The
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On April 22, 1999 @shacker, H. Bortman and C. Herborth released the BeOS Bible, an iconic book about #BeOS. 📕 #HaikuOS #BeOSBible http://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/welcome.html - The book is available at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7407210M/BeOS_Bible_The
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On April 22, 1999 @shacker, H. Bortman and C. Herborth released the BeOS Bible, an iconic book about #BeOS. 📕 #HaikuOS #BeOSBible http://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/welcome.html - The book is available at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7407210M/BeOS_Bible_The
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Playing videos used to be so CPU-intensive that playing two clips moving around at the same time fluidly on #BeOS was a technical feat. It was exciting.
Fast forward a few decades, the supercomputers in our pockets can do this easily and much more… and we get 3 video ads obfuscating actual content.
Some say software gets worse as hardware improves. True in many cases as you can get the same performance with heavier code.
But capitalism cancels out the very meaning of it all. What percentage of all human activity today is even useful vs just redirecting flows of revenue from one direction to the other ? -
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For the 50th anniversary of the founding of #Apple, I thought I would re-share my appreciation for the operating system that was almost the foundation for OS X, but ended up losing out to Steve Jobs’ NeXt. #BeOS was a magnificent failure, but it was magnificent.
https://findthethread.blog/Nice-Tech,-Pity-About-The-Product/
