The BeBox: A Computer Built to Prove BeOS [Part 3] #marchintosh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0yv3veebDc

#bebox #beos #90s #retrocomputing

Did some more archive spelunking and found some more Corum III for BeOS goodies; I've added a page to my portfolio with everything I've found so far:

https://taffer.ca/portfolio/corum3/

I haven't been able to find the BeOS source code.

#GameDev #BeOS #HaikuOS

Overview of Vitruvian OS 0.3 on QEMU

As we have posted earlier about the team behind Vitruvian OS announcing version 0.3 to the public for the first time, this project is not yet another Linux distribution. It’s a Linux-based operating system with BeOS components on top, with the Nexus module to allow BeOS applications to run on top of Linux for maximum compatibility.

If you have been our long time reader, you might have noticed that we’ve tested BeOS on our old computer and shown you how it performs there, and the performance out there was very impressive.

So, we have downloaded the first public release of Vitruvian OS from here:

Version 0.3 is just 600 MB in size, which means that it can fit on a CD-ROM, without having to resort to bigger drives like DVD-ROM. Now, after we’ve downloaded the ISO file, we can begin running it.

Assuming that you’ve downloaded QEMU, you can run the following command:

For example, on a Windows system (assuming that QEMU is in PATH), you can run the following command:

After that, Vitruvian OS is booting up like this:

After a few seconds of waiting, the Vitruvian OS desktop has appeared.

However, it looks like that icons are not loading in many areas, such as desktop icons. Applications, however, work fine with almost no problems, except for Pairs, which reported that it needed icons but got none. The Clock app also seems to suffer from broken rendering due to the hands being duplicated.

The terminal is working fine, which is good.

On shutdown, some of the applications just don’t want to quit, even if all windows have been closed, so VitruvianOS 0.3 hangs on shut down when you open some of the programs, such as Pairs and Terminal.

We ran VitruvianOS 0.3 on QEMU!

#Vitruvian #VitruvianOS #Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates #QEMU #BeOS #Haiku #HaikuOS

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/03/28/overview-of-vitruvian-os-0-3-on-qemu/

From the ancient past, the About screen from the BeOS version of Corum III: Chaotic Magic, a Korean ARPG we ported in 1999.

We sold several copies, so I guess this counts as the first commercial game I was a part of!

I was hoping to find the source code, but no luck yet; if I can find the CD I'll see it it works on Haiku and put the .iso online somewhere.

#ScreenShotSaturday #BeOS

VitruvianOS riporta in vita l’idea di BeOS, ma su Linux: reattività, coerenza, kernel real‑time e un desktop progettato con una visione chiara. Un progetto che riapre domande importanti sul futuro del desktop. #VitruvianOS #Linux #BeOS

https://www.linuxeasy.org/vitruvianos-ossia-il-ritorno-di-beos/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Vitruvian OS 0.3 has reached general availability!

#Linux #BeOS #Vitruvian #VitruvianOS #Haiku #HaikuOS #Computers #Laptops #TechNews #TechUpdates #Kernel #LinuxKernel

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/vitruvian-os-0-3-has-reached-general-availability/