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Thank you very much for trying the BeOS Release 4! Once you've had a chance to use the BeOS and its built-in applications, you'll no doubt want more. This document describes some of the different places you can find third-party BeOS software, including freeware, shareware, and commercial applications.


Sections in this document:

> BeWare -- BeOS Software
> BeDepot.com -- Internet Mall for BeOS Software
> BeOS Software Developers
> BeOS Masters Award Winners

BeWare -- BeOS Software

BeWare is the definitive catalog of BeOS freeware, shareware, and commercial software. Make the most of your BeOS system, by getting the software you need to be more productive. The catalog is divided into sections with detailed descriptions of each software package, or you can view more compact lists of the Latest BeWare and All BeWare.

Unlike many other software archive sites which are centrally administered, BeWare software catalog entries are maintained by developers themselves.

BeDepot.com -- Internet Mall for BeOS Software

BeDepot.com is the online store for commercial BeOS applications. Check out their growing catalog of quality commercial applications. You can browse the catalog, view descriptions of individual products, download demonstration versions, and even purchase applications online. Online purchases are delivered electronically, for immediate delivery and gratification.

BeOS Software Developers

Visit the websites of these companies to learn more about their exciting BeOS software, which is either in development or already shipping:

Abisoft, developers of the BePlan datebook program.

Adamation, the preeminent developer of digital media applications for the BeOS.

Algomedia Entertainment Software, Dark Corona "Pegasus" for the BeOS.

Bald Mountain Software, developers of the BeB backup utility.

Bochs Software Company, developers of a product that lets you run Microsoft Windows in a BeOS window.

BeatWare, developers of essential software for the BeOS.

Envision, developers of JuggleTime.

Gobe Software, developers of Gobe Productive, an extensible document creation system that integrates a wide variety of functions in one application.

Hekkelman Programmatuur, developers of Pe.

Level Control Systems manufactures an award-winning line of audio control equipment and software for theater, sound reinforcement, and location-based entertainment.

Little Big Software, developers of the Abacus spreadsheet.

Maxon, developers of the award-winning 3D modelling, raytracing and animation software Cinema 4D.

Mediapede, developers of UltraDV, digital video manipulation for the BeOS.

Objekt, developers of ObjectSynth software synthesizer for the BeOS.

Omicronsoft, developers of utilities for the BeOS.

Quad Image, developers of h.Scribe.

R3, developers of Smudge, multi-layer paint software for BeOS.

RealTech, developers of games for the BeOS.

rö design, developers of Shöwboat and röColour.

Wildcard Design, developers of games for the BeOS.

Working Software, developers of Spellswell for the BeOS.

BeOS Masters -- The Finest in BeOS Software

The following products have received BeOS Master Awards, awards given to outstanding BeOS software:

3D Starchart
Kloss Software
Author: Joe Kloss
3D astronomy viewer utilizing the Third Catalog of Nearby Stars.

Abacus
Author: Bjorn Tornqvist
A fast BeOS spreadsheet.

Adam
Adamation
Author: Paul Carmine
Send and receive email from all major email packages. Use Adam's advanced yet easy-to-use forms generator to create custom forms for a variety of purposes: surveys, invoices, timesheets, or just plain "funsheets."

ANewsWire
Author: Abraham Flaxman
An Internet news reader.

ArtPaint
Author: Heikki Suhonen
ArtPaint offers some tools for drawing and image processing. It also supports a controller that can be plugged into the GeekPort on a BeBox.

Attraction
Author: Nicolas & Daniel Fischer
Attraction combines physical properties with realtime display to deliver a whole new class of application.

Audio Elements
Adamation
Author: Attila Mezei
Audio Elements is an object-oriented, data processing framework designed for musicians, sound engineers, and others who work with sound synthesis and special effects.

BamBam
Author: Gertjan van Ratingen
BamBam is a digital audio application that provides recording, playback, editing, and resampling. It supports reading AIFF, WAV, and 8SVX files.

Basilisk & Frodo
Author: Christian Bauer
Basilisk is a beta release of a freeware Mac Classic emulator for the BeBox, based on the 68k emulation of UAE. Frodo is a free, portable C64 emulator for BeOS.

BeAVI
Author: Stuart MacKinnon
An AVI movie player.

BeConstruct
Author: Florian Ballenegger
A Replicant building tool.

BeInternetCentral
Author: Hubert Figuiere
An Internet configuration utility.

BeREND
Author: Russell Cook
A network 3D renderer.

BeatWare Paint
BeatWare Software
Author: BeatWare
A fast paint application.

BeatWare Writer
BeatWare Software
Author: BeatWare
A word processing application that supports advanced document features such as drag & drop of text and graphics and realtime text reflow when changing formatting.

Be Informed
Author: Dirk Olbertz, University of Dortmund, Germany
NNTP newsreader.

Boo
Authors: Levent Levai & Attila Mezei
Real time image morphing and texturing.

CueStation
Level Control Systems
Author: James McCartney
CueStation is a programming and control interface to Level Control Systems' external automated digital audio mixing hardware. This system is used to control sound systems currently in use at the Hotel Rio (Las Vegas), Niketown (NYC), Ragtime (Toronto), and other similar venues.

DOSfs
Author: Andreas Huber
Allows mouting DOS volumes.

DualPlayer
Author: Tinic Uro
DualPlayer plays many audio file formats and is completely modular since all players are implemented as external zclasses (add-ons with an OO interface). Additionally it offers many scopes, postprocessors, filters and effects.

Felix Author: Xavier Ducrohet
An IRC chat client.

Fontisuite
Author: Rainer Riedl
Fontisuite is a Unicode font utility package.

Gobe Productive
Gobe Software, Inc.
Integrated productivity suite including word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, and charting.

h.scribe
Author: Charalabos Papazissis
h.scribe is an HTML editor.

Hit & Run
Kaktus Software Author: Samuel Andersson, Lund University, Sweden
Hot key application and document launcher.

Image Elements
Adamation
Image editing, processing, compilation, and real-time effects.

Kftp Client
Author: Laurent Pontier
Kftp is a graphical ftp client that allows you to download the increasing number of BeOS applications from the Internet.

LaunchPad Author: Hiromasa Kato
Desktop management utility.

Layout Library
Author: Marco Nelissen
A collection of classes that enable developers to easily create fully resizable and font-sensitve GUI's.

Legolas
Author: Seth Flaxman
A drawing application written by a 6th grade programmer!

LiveElements
Adamation
Author: Attila Mezei
LiveElements (Audio Elements) is an object-oriented data processing framework. You can build data processing networks by dragging and connecting objects which can have any number and type of inputs.

MailIt
BeatWare Software
Author: Sebastien Bouchex
MailIt is a full-featured e-mail application that takes advantage of the database capabilities of the BeOS to offer a easy to use address book.

Mr. Thermister
Author: Brian Wagner
Mr. Thermister takes advantage of the GeekPort on the BeBox to measure temperature.

Nelson
Author: Ben Winnick, University of Arkansas
Neural network applied to photographic images.

Package Builder
StarCode Software
Author: Michael Klingbeil
Package Builder is a installer creator for the BeOS. It supports partial installs, patching, compression, file type preservation and is completely multi-threaded.

Pe -- Programmer's Editor
Hekkelman Programmatuur
Author: Maarten Hekkelman
Programming, text, and HTML editor.

Prodigal VRML Viewer
Author: Peder Blekken
An OpenGL-based viewer for VRML files.

Pulsar
Author: Raphael Moll
Pulsar is an extensible FFT spectro psychedelic sound analyser. It displays graphics in sync with the music or sounds being played.

QuickLetter Address Book
Working Software
Author: Dave Johnson
An address and contact manager.

röColor
Author: rö design
Realtime color mixer supporting HTML color drag & drop.

SineClock
Author: Douglass Repetto
Hypnotic clock application that encodes time via three sine waves.

Software Valet
StarCode Software
Author: Michael Klingbeil
Software Valet is electronic software distribution and management utility. This easy to use product supports software downloading, resumable downloads, software package management, easy registration, and automatic software updating.

Spellswell
Working Software
Author: Michael Crawford
Spellswell is a comprehensive, practical spelling checker for use within applications that incorporate the BeOS's "BMessages", such as BeMail and others. Spellswell for Be works with these programs as if it is built-in.

Stamina and Charisma
Author: Sylvain Demongeot
Automated web site download and offline browsing.

Studio A
Adamation
Authors: Mark Hall, Paul Manley, Simon Clarke
A next-generation digital content authoring program for the Be platform. StudioA brings unparalleled speed and ease of use. It features editing for audio, video and images as well as a plug-in architecture.

SumIt
BeatWare Software
Author: Maarten Hekkelman
Sum-It is a spreadsheet that has been rewritten in order to take every advantage of running under the BeOS. All calculations within Sum-It are handled in multiple threads resulting in high speed calculations throughout. Sum-It includes support for plug-ins so you can add your own functions.

TManager
Author: Olivier Wittenberg
TManager can kill applications or individual application threads, change the priorities, start a new browser or a new terminal, and display useful info about the teams and threads (like ps).



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