Audio drivers using API versions prior to BeOS R5 are as-yet unsupported, and unlikely to be so ; however, R5-era drivers work.

It is written in the C programming language and uses various free and open source helper libraries, including the Simple DirectMedia Layer ( SDL ), and has since been made available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, BeOS and other platforms.

It has been included with BeOS since 1998, when Be Inc. purchased Starcode's assets.

R5 was the 4th major release of BeOS for a public audience, and the 6th since it left developer-only stages.

BeOS included a version of virtual folders referred to as " saved queries ", that has since influenced the development of virtual folder features in operating systems like Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

The current version of Allegro supports Unix ( Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, Darwin ), Windows ( MSVC, MinGW, Cygwin, Borland C ++), Mac OS X and, up to the 4. 2 version, BeOS, QNX, and DOS ( DJGPP, Watcom ).

Experience had shown that even if an operating system was technically superior to Windows, it would be a failure in the market ( BeOS and OS / 2 for example ).

The reference implementation of FLAC compiles on many platforms, including most Unix ( such as Solaris and Mac OS X ) and Unix-like ( including Linux, BSD ), Microsoft Windows, BeOS, and OS / 2 operating systems.

It runs on GNU / Linux, OpenWrt, Windows, Mac OS X, OS / 2, AmigaOS, BeOS, and most flavors of Unix.

Less mainstream personal computer ports include those to AmigaOS / MorphOS, Atari / FreeMiNT, Haiku / BeOS / ZETA and OS / 2.

The official FIGlet FTP site includes precompiled ports for the Acorn, Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, BeOS, Macintosh, MS-DOS, NextStep, OS / 2, and Windows platforms, as well as a reimplementation in Perl ( Text :: FIGlet ).

It builds and works identically on several platforms, including Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, HPUX, IRIX, AIX, Tru64, Linux, UnixWare, HURD, Windows, Symbian, Amiga, OS / 2, BeOS, Mac OS X, Ultrix, QNX, BlackBerry Tablet OS, OpenVMS, RISC OS, Novell NetWare, DOS and more.

Xitami was designed to be portable, and was ported to Windows, Linux and other Unices, OpenVMS, BeOS, and OS / 2.

Prior to the acquisition of the product by Freescale Semiconductor, versions existed for Macintosh, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS, Wii, Palm OS, Symbian OS, and even for BeOS.

* Pre 1. 0 build-reports to be 4. 5. 2, this is likely a hang over from the BeOS version.

The software program VICE, standing for VersatIle Commodore Emulator, is an emulator for Commodore's 8-bit computers, running on Amiga, Unix, MS-DOS, Win32, Mac OS X, OS / 2, Acorn RISC OS, and BeOS host machines.

VICE for Microsoft Windows ( Win32 ) is known as WinVICE, the OS / 2 variant is called Vice / 2, and the emulator running on BeOS is called BeVICE.

The idea was eventually ported to other operating systems, such as DOS, OS / 2, Microsoft Windows, and BeOS, often with the same notation.

The idea was eventually ported to other operating systems, such as DOS, OS / 2, Windows NT, BeOS, AmigaOS, MorphOS and Mac OS X ( the last one being a UNIX OS ).

It is available for many operating systems: most or all POSIX Unix platforms ( as a program for text-mode or native X11 ); QNX, OS / 2, DOS, BeOS, Amiga, Windows 95 / 98 / Me / NT / 2000 / XP.

NetSurf 2. 0 was released in April 2009 for RISC OS, Unix-likes ( e. g. Linux ), AmigaOS 4, BeOS and Haiku.

Harbour code using the same databases can be compiled under a wide variety of platforms, including DOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Unix variants, several BSD descendants, Mac OS X, MINIX 3, Windows CE, Pocket PC, Symbian, iPhone, QNX, VxWorks, OS / 2 / eComStation, BeOS / Haiku, AIX.

Lincity was originally designed for Linux, but also runs on Microsoft Windows, BeOS, OS / 2, and AmigaOS 4, as well as a huge variety of Unix-styled systems.

* BeOS Preview release 2 PowerMac

NetPositive 2. 2 on BeOS R5.

* Hard Drive: 6. 4 GB ( 2 GB for Windows ( R ) 98 and 4. 6 GB for BeOS ( TM ))

BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. in 1991.

BeOS was built for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing modular I / O bandwidth, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a 64-bit journaling file system known as BFS.

The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design.

The company was acquired by Palm Inc. and today BeOS is mainly used and developed by a small population of enthusiasts.

The open-source OS Haiku is designed to start up where BeOS left off.

BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing modular I / O bandwidth, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a 64-bit journaling file system known as BFS.

The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design.

BeOS used Unicode as the default encoding in the GUI, though support for input methods such as bidirectional text input was never realized.

Initially designed to run on AT & T Hobbit-based hardware, BeOS was later modified to run on PowerPC-based processors: first Be's own systems, later Apple Inc .' s PowerPC Reference Platform and Common Hardware Reference Platform, with the hope that Apple would purchase or license BeOS as a replacement for its then aging Mac OS.

In 1997, Power Computing began bundling BeOS ( on a CD for optional installation ) with its line of PowerPC-based Macintosh clones.

These systems could dual boot either the Mac OS or BeOS, with a start-up screen offering the choice.

Due to Apple's moves and the mounting debt of Be Inc., BeOS was soon ported to the Intel x86 platform with its R3 release in March 1998.

Through the late 1990s, BeOS managed to create a niche of followers, but the company failed to remain viable.

As a last-ditch effort to increase interest in the failing operating system, Be Inc. released a stripped-down, but free, copy of BeOS R5 known as BeOS Personal Edition ( BeOS PE ).

BeOS PE could be started from within Microsoft Windows or Linux, and was intended to nurture consumer interest in its product and give developers something to tinker with.

Be Inc. also released a stripped-down version of BeOS for Internet Appliances ( BeIA ), which soon became the company's business focus in place of BeOS.

BeOS PE and BeIA proved to be too little too late, and in 2001 Be's copyrights were sold to Palm, Inc. for some $ 11 million.