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In the late 1990s, BeOS was reaching out into the world of Intel PCs. In this episode we go hands-on with the x86 versions of BeOS, starting with Release 3 from 1998 and working through updates all the way to BeOS 5. We'll also loog into the free give-away BeOS 5 Personal Edition: From a practical demo of the Personal Edition on Windows 98, to transplating BeOS 5 over to plain MS-DOS, and a quick look insight Be File System (BFS) concepts, that may (or may not) have influenced other future technologies. And along the way we run into practical challenges of installing this very almost forgotten operating systems, explore some multi-session CD quirks and how to work around them in 86Box. In this episode: 00:00 Intro 00:45 BeOS: The Intel Transition 01:47 How To Install BeOS 3.1 Into VirtualBox 03:24 Installing BeOS 3.1 Into 86Box 04:46 Upgrading BeOS 3.0 to 3.1/3.2 05:24 A Troubled BeOS 4 Install, And A Solution 07:36 A Glimpse At BeOS 5 08:42 The Free Give-Away: BeOS 5 PE 09:41 Be File System - Concept Insights 11:00 BeOS 5 PE Hands-on 13:18 Transplanting BeOS 5 PE to MS-DOS 13:55 Why BeOS Was A Market Failure 🔔 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 Balint Szikszay Brian Repinski CaffeinePizza Cecil Cinemint Media Clank CompuDroid GrayT! Ian Cobb ihartmacz Jack Beckman Jack Rosenthal Luke Granger-Brown Matthew Veety Mlok Karel MS-DOS Manfred nadrazhul NoOne PPCEmulator 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 X86 https://winworldpc.com/product/beos/4x https://github.com/chronic8000/BeOS4-Ressurected/tree/main/floppy-images https://web.archive.org/web/19990127162841/www.be.com/support/updates https://archive.org/details/beos-4-dos https://archive.org/details/beospe https://archive.org/download/beos-collection https://hackaday.com/2023/07/18/do-you-have-an-old-hitachi-computer-you-might-just-have-beos-without-realizing-it/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Flora_Prius https://asleson.org/public/mirrors/www-classic.be.com/support/breakingnews/html/usevga.html TECHNOLOGY DISCUSSED (FILESYSTEM, APIS, SOFTWARE) https://learn.adafruit.com/build-a-bebox-with-beos-and-virtualbox/set-up-the-vm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_File_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(Apple) https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/TheMediaKit_Overview_Introduction.html https://archive.org/details/the_beos_bible PART 3 — Late BeOS Era, Unofficial Builds, and Community Continuations https://opentracker.sourceforge.net/info.html https://archiveos.org/beos/ https://betawiki.net/wiki/BeOS_Release_5.1 https://www.osnews.com/story/17535/beos-max-edition-v4-beta-released/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070127001900/http://www.beosmax.org/wiki/index.php/Maxv4 https://www.heise.de/news/Neue-BeOS-Distribution-63561.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZETA_(operating_system) OPEN SOURCE REIMPLEMENTATIONS AND SUCCESSORS https://newos.org/ https://www.osnews.com/story/329/travis-geiselbrecht-on-newos-and-the-future-of-beos/ https://www.haiku-os.org