Brian Swetland

Managed to capture some video of the BeMachine running the Hobbit-93080009.img available online. It's weird looking at this proto-BeOS, predating the PPC BeBox, and a lot of evolution of the system. Still many familiar icons and interfaces...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kU0MS7o-rg

I'm still working on how to best capture video. This is VGA from the machine to VGA->HDMI adapter to an HDMI capture interface to OBS, cropping and scaling to get close to the 4:3 source image.

#retrocomputing #bemachine #hobbit

BeMachine running Hobbit-93080009.img

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Mar 21, 2023 at 6:09amWeb
Show threadBrian SwetlandMar 21, 2023

Here's a bit more but without the last downscale step. I think this looks a bit better on youtube -- having the video already scaled up to a typical size seems to avoid some blurry scaling that happens when the 720x540 video gets upscaled in your browser...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BafA1FMQzs0

Thoughts?

video capture test

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Show threadMichael EngelMar 21, 2023
@swetland Looks great, thanks a lot! I didn't expect these early releases to have this level of functionality, this already seems to be a quite complete first version of the OS.
Show threadOwen MeheganMar 21, 2023
@swetland
It is really interesting to imagine a world where there was another viable desktop OS...