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by memsom 4y ago
As someone who has previously hacked Classic MacOS CodeWarrior to build apps for BeOS and started porting Retro68 to also build BeOS PEF exes, this is pretty cool! I wonder if this could also build Rust for BeOS too?
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by memsom 4y ago
And this British actress is actually called Isis : https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8365231/
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by memsom 4y ago
Having had to deal with this is a previous job, from what I remember the rules DD are pretty strict and if you mess up as the collection agency, you have to put it right. You also don't get to just recollect - the few times we had soft
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by memsom 4y ago
There is also currently no way to even virtualize BeOS for PowerPC. I wish there was. The closest I have seen is a MESS that could boot and show the boot splash screen (this is a 3d Be logo on PowerPC, the one you see on Intel was only ever
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by memsom 4y ago
The UI does look different, but functionality looks the same.
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by memsom 4y ago
Sheepshaver runs natively on supported Macs under BeOS and you likewise don’t need a ROM file as it uses the one built in to your Mac. The real reason is probably it doesn’t support MacOS past 8.5 really. Not well.
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by memsom 4y ago
Haiku will never support legacy BeOS PowerPC apps though, as that makes no sense. PEF is hard to support even today.
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by memsom 4y ago
Nope. It really never even supported G3 officially. It will boot on the BeBox natively an a Mac with a boot loader. Without modifying the kernel, I doubt it will boot on much else.
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by memsom 4y ago
No, not really. It isn’t just PowerPC, it is a very specific and picky Mac, has PCI, is old world, has a 603 or 604 processor when shipped originally. If you have one, you then need a copy of BeOS R4.5 or R5, and getting that installed can
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by memsom 4y ago
But this requires a PowerPC processor under BeOS so you can’t use this with Haiku at the moment. The Linux version looks like it emulates the CPU so it can probably be made to work I guess?
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by memsom 4y ago
You can, but not under BeOS. Under BeOS Mac OS is run almost like Classic was on MacOS X. The OS is more or less virtualised as a user space app, and the CPU is not emulated in any way. That’s the main reason that BeOS only supports PowerPC
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by memsom 4y ago
If you enrol in the classroom version of Duo (which I originally did to get back the old style tree) it is firstly, free. Secondly - you can be a single participant. Thirdly - no ads. I even forgot there were ads because I haven't seen
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by memsom 4y ago
Having a Polish wife an knowing something about Polish through a few failed attempts to learn some, Polish is a lot more "bloated" to an English eye. The moods and aspects make learning Polish super hard. If you learn the morpholo
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by memsom 4y ago
Not Danish. Danish is pretty alien. Norwegian is quite easy for an English speaker, plus all the dialects mean that even technicalities such as the tone accent can be "worked around". Swedish and Norwegian are both pretty easy to
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by memsom 4y ago
I live locally and have used those toilets a number of times. I can’t say I’d be sad for improvement as they were pretty grim.
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by memsom 4y ago
I didn't say it was an accurate name, but it is what we call it. Just like we call the "gas pedal" the accelerator. (which is obviously an example of the reverse - fancier word vs earthy word.)
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by memsom 4y ago
Anglish, I know. It is, unfortunately, really fragmented and full of idiolects.
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by memsom 4y ago
I don't thing British "chose" a German/Dutch word, it was the native choice. We speak a Germanic language, though it has been quite influenced by French and Latin loan words. Faucet sounds like a much "posher"
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by memsom 4y ago
No - it was marketing. The older Filesystem was a full on database and would allow the user to do all kinds of weird and wonderful things with metadata. But the Filesystem interface in BeOS prior to PR1 (well, technically AA) made it almost
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by memsom 4y ago
The 604[e] did have the necessary hardware.
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by memsom 4y ago
Dominic Giampaolo worked on Spotlight at Apple, and was the BFS guy at Be... he (along with another engineer) wrote BFS pretty much from scratch for the PR1 release. Before BFS, was OFS which was an actual database and was horribly buggy, r
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by memsom 4y ago
So - BeOS was very usable on Intel. It had a lot more support. It also had more modern browsers. I ran it as a main OS well in to the 2000's. On PowerPC is was a lot more hobbled. You sound like you were on PowerPC unfortunately. 4.5 a
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by memsom 4y ago
At one point there were half a dozen ex-Be Inc engineers working on Android... Dianne Hackbourne and Ficus Kirkpatrick come to mind, but there were more. Dominic Giampaolo did APFS for Apple as well.
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by memsom 4y ago
mmuman was still talking about it recently, but the issue is that the compiler used under BeOS is proprietary - Metrowerks mwcc, and is basically DOA now (do they even still make is commercially available?.) The PowerPC version of BeOS uses
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by memsom 4y ago
IIRC, there was a big load of details on everything to do with the BeBox and all the decisions made and even a timeline and an interview with Joe Palmer on BeBox.nu. You can probably still read it via Archive.org. I wonder what happened to
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by memsom 4y ago
Helf!!! I haven't seen you online in years! Maybe not since the demise of bebox.nu? I'm still plugging away with BeOS, have a few Macs running the PowerPC version still.
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by memsom 4y ago
You need to remember - 1998, no Windows software was particularly "free". If you wanted to upgrade, you paid. The company I was working for was stuck at Delphi 1 (as the code was 16bit and had an in house 16bit DLL that needed to
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by memsom 4y ago
Something to do with their TurboVision replacement I think.
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by memsom 4y ago
Welcome to Delphi 1. My first job was using Delphi and it was 1.0 we used to do most of the dev till we managed to go 32bit (circa 1998) and the IDE had absolutely no autocompletion nor did it have any suggestions. You needed to know what
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by memsom 4y ago
Can't say. But there really isn't anything to see outside this store, so any other Windows would be a bit pointless. From what I remember the one I went to just outside of Bergen also only really had windows in the restaurant, but

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