Four Odd Screenshots
Stephen B. - March 2nd, 2008
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Archive for 2008 After having no further luck recovering the files from my damaged BeOS partition (details here and here), I decided to setup a fresh install of R5 Pro – I haven’t given up entirely, just didn’t want to go completely insane as a result of being stuck in Windows. In the course of attempting to get the files back, I tried just about everything I could think of – and came across a few screenshot-worthy “scenes” in the process. Read on if you’ve ever wondered what the R5 installer looks like in ZETA, or if you enjoy creative ways to pluralize words. Read More »
Quick notes:
Remember my news item about Zebuntu-mini recently ? As seen on OSnews today Zebuntu (full) beta 3 is now out. You can give it a try by downloading the iso from here: http://zebuntu.cvn-server.de/. There is also a video tutorial presenting step by step how to install Zebuntu. It’s 20 megs and it’s here (.mkv). Also the Zebuntu.com web site is now up, but for the moment only for german speaking humans. Another interesting piece of information about this project has been found in the forum:
You can see beta 3 screenshots here.
It’s been a little while since any significant changes were made to the site, but I finally got around to making a few little tweaks and upgrades that had been planned for a while now. Much of the work needed was cleanup-type stuff: a few dead sites have been removed from the links and the RSS Aggregate page (looks like HaikuNews.org is gone now, not sure how I managed to miss that). Some changes were also made to the commenting system – read on for the details. Update on the Updates: a few people have mentioned CSS / display quirks related to the comment system updates. Some changes were made to the site’s CSS stylesheet in the course of doing the comment updates – my best guess is that some browsers may have cached outdated copies of the stylesheet file. If you’re seeing problems with the layout breaking or with inconsistent text formatting on the comments page, please try forcibly-reloading (on most browsers, Shift-clicking the reload button will do that) and/or clearing out your cache. If you still see the problem after doing that, please post a message in the comments to this article with the browser software & version that you’re using. Read More »
Last week I posted about an annoying problem (or series of problems) that I’ve been having with my BeOS machine. After a large amount of trial and error, I’ve made some potentially-encouraging progress – read on for an update. As with the first post, this is primarily intended for anyone who finds themselves in a similar situation. Read More »
I saw on ozhug.blogspot.com that there is now a BeOS port available of the REminiscence game engine. The guy who ported the code has a dedicated page here.
This program is a rewrite of the engine used in the game Flashback from Delphine Software so to play the game you still need the original DOS version data files and, optionally, the Amiga music modules. Hopefully the game is abandonware and the author of the port made those files available here. Also you need SDL to run this which can be found on Zeta-games (for R5) or in LibPak on BeBits. There is also a BeBits page for REminiscence.
[UPDATE] I just received a mail from Leszek to tell me the available ISO is the one for Zebuntu-mini not for the “full” Zebuntu. The ISO for the later will be released soon. Hey folks, remember my news catchup item some days ago ? Right, the Zeta-Ubuntu mix distro beta 1 is finished and available, in its mini form, for download. The ISO file is 108 Megs and is hosted at Megaupload here. If you wanna try the beast under VMware, I’ve made a .vmx file ready for use (I hope :-) Just drop it next to the downloaded ISO file and double-click the VMX. It should boot (if VMware Player is installed of course). I had issues booting that image under VMware. At boot time I had to type in the boot sequence “puppy acpi=off” then later choose “Xvesa“.
Have a look at the Zubuntu development blog for more information.
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Rudolf Cornelissen 
