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BeOS was fast, elegant, and famously media-focused, but an operating system ultimately lives or dies by its applications. In this final BeOS installment, we look beyond the desktop itself and dig into the software ecosystem: what actually existed, what shipped, what stayed a demo, and how the old BeOS applications fare on Haiku today. Plus, we'll have a brief look at VitruvianOS, which is trying a very different Linux-based approach to BEOS. In this episode: 00:00 Intro 00:46 BeOS Software Landscape Compared To Other Operating Systems 03:02 Haiku's Binary Compatibility Claim On BeOS Apps 03:26 Running Haiku On The Asus EeePC 701 05:07 Gobe Productive - BeOS Only Full-featured Office Product 07:37 Running BeOS and Modern Software On Haiku 09:33 How Many Announced Commercial BeOS Apps Remained Vaporware 10:30 Running Civilization: Call To Power on BeOS 11:23 Was BeOS's Software Ecosystem Hindering Success? 12:08 Escaping the Hardware Trap with VitruvianOS - BeOS-compatible, Linux at Heart 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! Want to join THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS or THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS community and get a mention in an upcoming video? Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz Christian Zerrahn David Schell Ernesto Leonardo Bertola Waseem al sammane ZyeByteVT THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: Aaron Aluatis Balint Szikszay Brian Repinski CaffeinePizza Cecil Chip Smith Cinemint Media Clank CompuDroid Diego Valle GrayT! Ian Cobb ihartmacz Jack Beckman Jack Rosenthal Lord Pingvin Luke Granger-Brown Matthew Veety Mlok Karel MS-DOS Manfred nadrazhul PPCEmulator Roy Edmund Antaw ryaxnb SoftMASCII Steven Glogger Wobinu Films xcalibur839 Z098 Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. This presentation, Copyright @ 2025 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see sources). Music composed by 🎶 Abdallah El-Ghannam https://www.youtube.com/@AcrossTheU.S.A | https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam 🎶 rootkitty | https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty ℹ️ Sources: BeOS software archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20000519215350/http://www.bebits.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000621105045/http://www.bebits.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000620163323/http://www.bedepot.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20031128172556/http://valet.bedepot.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20000818191623/http://www.bedepot.com/products/adamation/personalStudio.asp https://archive.org/details/beos-application-pack https://archive.org/details/2015_BeOS_Collection https://archive.org/download/cdrom-maximum-cd-2000-06 BeOS books and CD-ROMs: https://archive.org/details/beos-power-guide https://archive.org/details/inside-beos-01 https://archive.org/details/cd-beos-pce-97 https://archive.org/details/beos-5.0.3-professional-gobe Gobe Productive: https://web.archive.org/web/20001018183601/http://www.gobe.com/productive/gpinfo.html https://web.archive.org/web/20010121154700/http://www-classic.be.com/aboutbe/pressreleases/98-11-16_gobe.html https://archive.arstechnica.com/beos/reviews/1q99/gobe-1.html https://archive.org/details/gobe-productive-2.01 https://archive.org/details/gobe3 https://www.besly.de/haisly2.besly.de/index.php/office/gobe-productive/gobeproductive-2-0-for-haiku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobe_Software Games and media software: https://archive.org/details/civctpbeos https://www.eurogamer.net/beos https://github.com/smallstepforman/Medo Commercial Software for BeOS: https://web.archive.org/web/20010127145200/http://www-classic.be.com/aboutbe/pressreleases/98-11-10_steinberg.html https://web.archive.org/web/20000823221157/http://www-classic.be.com/aboutbe/pressreleases/98-11-10_maxon.html https://web.archive.org/web/20000823221009/http://www-classic.be.com/aboutbe/pressreleases/99-01-28_scratch.html https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS#Anwendungen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinberg_Nuendo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Scratch https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Scratch#Versionen VitruvianOS, and Linux hardware support stats: https://v-os.dev/ https://github.com/linuxhw/HardwareSupport Software ecosystem comparisons: https://www.os2site.com/mirrors/hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/ https://archive.org/details/Simtel_MSDOS_1994-09 https://archive.org/details/totaldoscollectionrelease1719811995_201910