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As reported over at Haiku News, Xentronix is ceasing development on BeOS/Zeta/Haiku platforms and focusing entirely on the MacOSX platform. It’s very sad to see them go, but it looks as if Frans, et al, took a hit, both financially and in faith, during the recent Zeta troubles. Can’t say that I can blame them. […]
BeGroovy is preparing for a website redesign, among other efforts, and we have an urgent need for someone that does graphics arts better than Yez or I can (which isn’t asking for much), since Cougar is a bit too occupied recently to do anything for us. The work will be mainly logos, the category icons […]
Begasus (aka Luc Schrijvers) wrote in to let everyone know that BeBug is running a wallpaper contest. The winner will be rewarded with a full ZETA 1.0. You can get more info on the contest here. I look forward to seeing some fresh graphics work in the community – I need a new wallpaper on […]
Longtime BeOS user/developer Stephan Assmus wrote in with this bit of news: The YellowBites website has gotten a complete makeover. The long missing pages for WonderBrush have been added, including a few brief turorials. All the graphics on the site have been created in WonderBrush. Some of the information of the old site had really […]
So, it’s not altogether coherent, but fitting and fun. The Genuine Haiku Generator. Enjoy. Edit: Decided to add one of my own in tribute to the new logo… three leaves – green, orange, gold float gracefully, poetic simply said: Haiku
For those of you that fancy yourself an artist, head on over to the BeOS Max pages to learn about a Logo contest for the version 3.1 release of BeOS Max. It is good to see the community working together to get things done. update: DOH! after reading through the contest rules, it appears that […]
Last week I heard from a BeOS fan, Matthew McClintock. He has created some BeOS Icons for OS X. This is great for everyone using OS X who misses Be, but doesn’t help Be itself. However, after I pointed out that OpenBeOS needs icons, Matt was surprised and agreed whole heartedly to helping out. He […]
Xentronix is in need of more testers for Refraction. Their last beta worked for half the people, and broke for the other half. They need to figure out why. You can see a lot of news about development at their news page. Looks like this thing isn’t far off now. 🙂
Raise your hand if you remember Blender. You know, the 3d app that was ported to BeOS and later died when their company ran out of funding? In any case.. it looks like it may not be dead after all. There is an effort happening at blender3d.com to get all parts of the blender code […]
Xentronix has released Beta 5 of Refraction. Get it Here! Update from the Xentronix news page: Update: Unfortunately the PatternAddon does not work correct on all systems and might crash Refraction on start-up. You know this when it crashes on the second Icon. We are aware of this and are working to fix it. The […]
Rob Lund wrote in to point out that Xentronix has announced that Inferno, the BeOS-Native image editor, is being renamed to “Refraction”, due to whining from people who make products that have nothing to do with image editing that they also call Inferno. (that last bit about whining is my addition, not Xentronix’s. It’s late. […]
Just recieved this in my inbox: Hello, just thought I’d let you know the nurbana port to BeOS was successful. It should appear on the website sometime saturday afternoon. The web site is of course nurbana.cx and the product is of course a very cool free NURBS 3d modelling system. Now to get it ported […]
Nurbana, a 3D modeler for Linux, Windows, BeOS is currently behind on the BeOS version. Roger Andre Lassen wrote in to ask about it, and the response was: Hello, you are the first to ask about this in a while… I had difficulty getting BeOS working during last version and that is why there is […]
While we were down, Frans van Nispen, one of the developers of Inferno (website address to change to this new address), posted news on the Inferno site that states that development of Inferno on the BeOS platform will continue. In the release, Frans states: We have decided not only to finish this version, but keep […]
Well, it’s official. Lost Marble has dropped support for BeOS, after reluctant updates in the past. The 0confirmation came in a reply to BeNews inquiries about a 2.6 release for BeOS. They sounded upset about dropping BeOS, but realistic about their business, and it is hard to fault that sort of thinking. Like they said, […]
From the Pixel 32 website: New website is almost ready, it will be uploaded on Monday May,21st 2001. We’re also looking for BeOS coder who will be able to continue port and development of command line compiler for BeOS. Not quite sure what the whole compiler thing is about.. But in anycase, maybe we will […]
In a very interesting move, Lost Marble has posted what is labeled Moho 2.2 to BeBits. Version 2.2 is the current version of their animation software Moho for all platforms. We recently ran an email from Moho showing questionable support of the BeOS version. While the changes from 2.0 to 2.2 are mainly windows specific […]
In a rather understated move, Secundum Artem has posted the first alpha of their BeOS port of pixel32. It is VERY alpha, and still has no file open/save features. But it is available to already-registered users. If you have recieved your username and password (you should have by now) head to their support page and […]
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