BeOS v5 under Virtual PC 2004

re: BeOS v5 under Virtual PC 2004

voidref — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:12:00 GMT

You should be able to make it run under an Athlon with this: http://bebits.com/app/3390

re: BeOS v5 under Virtual PC 2004

Virtual PC Guy — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 19:04:00 GMT

What do you mean by 'the original BeOS'?

Cheers,
Ben

re: BeOS v5 under Virtual PC 2004

Luc Geurts — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:20:00 GMT

What about the original BeOS Ben? Seems nobody is capable running it on VPC? I tried several times but it just did not work.

re: BeOS v5 under Virtual PC 2004

Virtual PC Guy — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:30:00 GMT

Hi Patrick,

BeOS Max will run on Athlon processors - BeOS v5 will not. I would have provided a link to BeOS Max as well - however they seem to be remodelling their site.

Cheers,
Ben

re: BeOS v5 under Virtual PC 2004

Patrick M. Slattery — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:29:00 GMT

I have successfully run BeOS Max on an Opteron in Virtual Server 2005, so I don't see why it wouldn’t run on an Athlon. Isn't an Opteron really just a 64bit Athlon? Admittedly I don't have an Athlon to try it on...

re: BeOS v5 under Virtual PC 2004

Uwe Keim — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 06:02:00 GMT

There is a beta-BeOS clone called "zeta", developed in Germany which is heavily promoted through local German home shopping television to people who generally have problems even to find to on/off-switch of their PC.

They call it "The alternative to Windows".

Bad luck that our company is called "zeta software" and since these TV shows went on air, about half a year ago, we get calls and e-mail from frustated "users" complaining about "that zeta" thing. No one understands that we have nothing in common with this BeOS clone.

Really really annoying. The most crazy thing happened that 2 guys ordered or CMS "zeta producer" from our only shop and complained one week later that this was "no OS". WTF...

re: BeOS v5 under Virtual PC 2004

Virtual PC Guy — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 22:03:00 GMT

I have installed this on top of Windows - and by using BeOS Max - which provides a bootable CD to install off of.

Cheers,
Ben

re: BeOS v5 under Virtual PC 2004

TimP — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:26:00 GMT

Great find. I've wanted to try BeOS for a while. Did you get BeOS Personal for Windows and install it on top of an existing Windows installation or is there a bootable self-contained package that I missed?