Installing BeOS on a TAM. Oh no.

Oh no. I'm doing BeOS again. This time on a TAM.

What could go wrong?

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#Macintosh #PowerPC #BeOS

[macintalkshow]

I just visited the American Computer Museum in Bozeman, MT last week (highly recommended to everyone, btw). They had a complete TAM on display. I'd never actually seen one in person.

I couldn't help but think, "...Action Retro's has nicer speaker fabric."

[athstreamsandmore]

I used BeOS Pro 5 on my AMD units. The OS was fantastic and had a great following. I loved GoBE productive suite and the book by Scot Hacker called "The BeOS Bible". It was a great book for this OS. Luckily, this OS is still in development past the DANO build stage under the name Haiku. It runs on Intel and they are getting ARM Support going. Albeit really slow in development, it works great.

[infamousacidrain]

Can confirm this is what installing BeOS back in the day was like. Ended up going to Linux because I couldn’t get it all working.

[DanielMReck]

12:47 "Time to call in the big guns!" disappointment that he isn't pulling out an ancient MacBook to send an email to the BeOS customer support address in the error message.

[Valthonis]

I used to run BeOS on my old Abit BP6 with dual Celerons. It ran amazingly well.

[draggonhedd]

I love BeOS. Bebox is on my must-have list.
Back in high school I had an AMD k6 system running BeOS as a secondary computer for when friends visited (we were computer geeks but nobody could afford a laptop) and I was astonished at how fast and snappy it was in the era of the first athlon 64s. I really wish it had gained a bigger foothold.

[memsom]

Glad the image worked out for you man, it was a PITA to make it as getting gigabytes of data over base10 Nic is no fun. Glad imaging the SDcard worked out for you. Shame you didn’t delve in to the Cool Installers folder as iirc it had Gobe Productive. The CDDA link is also cool, it will mount the CD audio cd’s and directly grab the tracks (though in WAV or AU format iirc)

[JK-moov]

I love how clean it looks on the front then you show the back and it looks like C-3PO while Chewy has him in parts on his back

[tomwagner]

Had to get up this morning and watch this first thing, even before coffee. Gives me inspiration to mess with my old macs today.

[pianokeyjoe]

BeOS 4.5 did NOT have SATA drivers or modern chipset drivers when it came out in 2000. BeOS 5.03 pro also did NOT have Sata drivers but it did have drivers for more modern P3 systems and I know nothing about Macs with it. The I tried installing BeOS 4.5 in my intel P3 system and it did NOT work. I then did the 5.03 pro and it is still installed and working today. I did a CDROM install of BeOS 5.03 pro. I can play mp3 music with it. Sadly I only got BeOS 4.5 to install back in 2K on a super socket 7 system with a ATI AGP 8mb video card and a soundblaster 32.

[BrianJones-wkcx]

Great work outta you, appreciate all of the shenanigans, SD card or not.

[DavidRavenMoon]

My Power Computing, PowerCenter 132 came with a copy of BeOS. I was always amazed how it booted from right inside macOS and just pushed it aside! It booted in the flash of an eye too. (Of course you also had the boot loader option.)

Was a lot of fun to mess around with, but not yet very useful.

These days I run Haiku in VMWare on my iMac. 😃

[skruduk]

My goat, i can't wait action with NEXT
action retro, of course

[billyjhamlin]

You should've uploaded a 40 hour long video that just looped for a great "we're not stopping until it works" gag.

[MARC]

Clever! I remember being excited about BeOS after Amiga went Belly Up on the 90's. A lot of us were excited about it as it had a lot of features from AmigaOS that we were used to.
Funnily enough, AmigaOS is still being developed and sold and BE bit it!

[wojiaobill]

to Be or not to Be,
that is not a question

[youdontneedtoseehisidentif]

[ _watches Action Retro struggle and repeatedly fail to just_ *install* _the operating system_ ] Y’know, I really can’t figure out why BeOS wasn’t more successful 🤔

[NicholasMucci]

Hey man, thanks for the shout out! I’m really glad you got it working. :)

[PotatoFi]

It's always fun to see the RaSCSI case on the channel!

[fractalMD]

I must say, that is a mighty fine tshirt you have on for the outro.