Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (1996–2001)

Re:Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (1996–2001) by flohofwoe on Sunday September 04, 2022 @11:03AM (#32713818)

In my personal memory as a former Amiga diehard (who seriously considered BeOS - or anything but a Microsoft or Apple OS): Because BeOS came at a time when the lure towards PCs running Windows was just too big (because at that time, 3D accelerators for gaming took off, and that happened exclusively on Windows PCs).

Seeing BeOS run multiple videos side by side was cool and all, but it couldn't compete with seeing Quake running on a 3dfx Voodoo, or Quake II on a Riva TNT.

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Re:Antique BeOS Content by Scot Hacker (1996–2001) by jghn on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:34PM (#32716208)

I remember when they shifted to x86 after Apple locked down their platform it felt like their development ground to a halt. It seemed they had to spend all of their time writing device drivers and such. It was such a huge advantage for Windows - device manufacturers would write the drivers for Windows, but not the alternative OSs.

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