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Argus BeConics BeCypher BeSalat
BeZX BrowsEd Element Updater GAPforBe
Let it Be Seen! NeuroSim Object Mandelbrot PIOS One Computer System
X11R6.3 Xserver and libraries XGS


Argus
Version: 0.0
By: Peter Zankl
E-mail: 100326.2642@compuserve.com
Web page: (none)
Release Date: (none)

Info Last Modified: 3/14/97
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Commercial
Cost:
Source Available?: No


Description: Pettrn recognition in video pictures etc.


BeConics
Version: 0.8.5
By: Aidan Cully
E-mail: aidan@panix.com
Web page: Available
Release Date: 6/1/97

Info Last Modified: 4/15/97
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Freeware
Cost:
Source Available?: Yes


Description: This program lets you move a plane through a conic and view the resulting intersection and equation.


BeCypher
Version: beta 1.0
By: Jean-Francois MORREEUW
E-mail: morreeuw@emi.u-bordeaux.fr
Web page: Available
Release Date: In the coming weeks

Info Last Modified: 1/28/97
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Freeware
Cost: $0.00
Source Available?: No


Description: BeCypher is a full commutative 64 bits cypher tool. I don't have time yet to finish it, but soon a usable version will be available to crypt your own datas (Not to crypt your mail because in this version the solution to the ManInTheMiddle attack is not programmed yet). BeCypher can crypt more than 340Kbytes/second. Stay tuned.


BeSalat
Version: 0.1
By: Waleed Kadous
E-mail: waleed@cse.unsw.edu.au
Web page: (none)
Release Date: Very Soon Now

Info Last Modified: 10/29/96
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Freeware
Cost: $0
Source Available?: No


Description: BeSalat is an application for calculating prayer times for Muslims. It is configurable to cope with a number of different schools, handles different cities and also adjusts for daylight saving. Comes in GUI and shell flavours. Also included is a program that pops up to remind you of upcoming prayers.


BeZX
Version:
By: Jens Kilian
E-mail: jjk@acm.org
Web page: (none)
Release Date: When the bugs are dead.

Info Last Modified: 1/20/97
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Freeware
Cost:
Source Available?: Yes


Description: Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator for BeOS.


BrowsEd
Version: 0.001
By: Arthur van Leeuwen
E-mail: arthurvl@sci.kun.nl
Web page: (none)
Release Date: when it's done

Info Last Modified: 12/4/96
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Freeware
Cost:
Source Available?: Yes


Description: This is (going to be) a browsing/editing system, based on Jon Watte's Datatypes.lib and PlugInEditors.lib. The main idea is that the browser will provide for opening and closing of `datapoints' (files, directories, queries, URL's) whereas the actual handling of the datapoints will be done through PlugInEditors.


Element Updater
Version: v1.0
By: Marek Kozubal
E-mail: progrmer@staff.feldberg.brandeis.edu
Web page: Available
Release Date: Sometime Soon

Info Last Modified: 5/27/97
Requires BeOS version: AA:PR
License: Shareware
Cost: $5.00
Source Available?: No


Description: A Simple utility to update and maintain satellite two line element files that are used by various programs to calcuate where earth orbiting satellites are. Features include: remove old epochs, sorting, molczan number support, search features, etc.


GAPforBe
Version: 1
By: Christophe MORVANT
E-mail: cmorvant@club-internet.fr
Web page: (none)
Release Date: After DR9

Info Last Modified: 4/12/97
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Shareware
Cost: $20
Source Available?: No


Description: GAPforBe is a new type of data processing based on Quantum Computer theory. A quantum computer can compute *faster* than classical computer.


Let it Be Seen!
Version: 1
By: Mark Halsall
E-mail: mhalsall@acs.wooster.edu
Web page: (none)
Release Date: no clue

Info Last Modified: 7/19/97
Requires BeOS version: PR
License: Freeware
Cost: what you think is appropriate
Source Available?: No


Description: Let it Be Seen is an app that sends a signal to a custom-made box attached to the GeekPort. The signal then is sent to a batch of circuits and returned to the BeBox. This allows the user to check whether doors, etc. have been opened or disturbed. Further action is determined by the module that is plugged in. It could be anything from a CGI to update a web page (can you say devices online? I thought so...) to a security system for your house! It's currently being done on my PowerBook, with some testing being done on a PowerMac 9500. I envision this thing as 'sendmeanythingware' for a few releases, and if interest continues, possibly changing to being a commercial program. I'll include the addon interface with the program so that plugins can be written for it. When it's done, I'll post it to a site with a stable URL. 1/22/97 Got the BeBox, and am now gonna start programming for real, during my 'free' time after work. Release date still hazy, but probably after DR9 ships... 7/19/97 Actually started working on it about a week ago! Should be done soon, I hope... :-)


NeuroSim
Version: 0.01
By: Roberto Peon
E-mail: fenix@cc.gatech.edu
Web page: (none)
Release Date: When its done...

Info Last Modified: 1/14/97
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Shareware
Cost:
Source Available?: No


Description: It'll be your run-of-the-mill neural network simulator. (look at SNNS for an example) Neat features will include: real-time (or close) output from the output layer(s) to tcp/ip stacks, serial ports. The current neurons supported are of the type needed for creating a neocognitron (see Kunihiko Fushima and Sei Miyake's paper on the subject, found in "Neuro-Vision systems" produced by IEEE press for details). Neurocognitrons are a type of neural-net that can percieve patterns through noise, distortions, and random scaling/ rotation. Any comments/suggestions are welcome. (email to fenix@cc.gatech.edu)


Object Mandelbrot
Version:
By: Bryan Prusha
E-mail: pr98bs41@acs.wooster.edu
Web page: Available
Release Date: To Be Announced

Info Last Modified: 2/16/97
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Freeware
Cost:
Source Available?: Yes


Description: This program is designed to be the fastest and most versatile fractal exploration kit available as freeware. This is accomplished through the use of classes and object orientation as well as optimization for the modern RISC based PowerPC processor and the BeOS Application Programming Interface (API). A MacOS version of the program has just been submitted to the Info-Mac Hyperarchive. Each fractal is an instance of a FractalObj class which control all aspects of mathematically rendering a given fractal. The FractalObj class contains a corresponding WindowObj class governing the fractal's window and offscreen pixmap. Direct Memory Access (DMA) graphics give an added speed boost beyond algorithmic optimization. A secondary aim of the application is to serve as a springboard to beginning fractal programmers through open, documented and fully canibalizable code. It is hopeful that the BeOS will provide several of the services the MacOS has not including higher level window control and a threaded renderer.


PIOS One Computer System
Version: Rev 1.1
By: Dave Haynie
E-mail: dhaynie@jersey.net
Web page: Available
Release Date: May '97, with DR9

Info Last Modified: 4/10/97
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Commercial
Cost: $1500
Source Available?: No


Description: The PIOS One is a low cost PowerPC computer, designed from the start with the BeOS considered the primary operating system. The system is based on a modular CPU card with one or more PowerPC chips. The motherboard supports three PCI slots, two ISA slots, two RS-232 ports, one bidirectional parallel port, two RS-485 ports, two EIDE ports, SCSI-2, two Universal Serial Bus ports, a decicated MIDI port, two PC-style game ports, and a Sound Slot. More details available on the Web.


X11R6.3 Xserver and libraries
Version: 0.01
By: Joshua Goldsmith
E-mail: joshin@bueno.com
Web page: Available
Release Date: Fall 1997

Info Last Modified: 4/24/97
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Freeware
Cost:
Source Available?: Yes


Description: A port of X11R6.3 and related libraries and tools to BeOS to allow for a more "Unixified" environment. Should include an X server and all shipping libraries and with the current X11 version


XGS
Version: 0.47
By: Eric Shepherd
E-mail: sheppy@logicware.com
Web page: (none)
Release Date: Coming Soon

Info Last Modified: 1/30/97
Requires BeOS version: DR8
License: Freeware
Cost:
Source Available?: No


Description: XGS is a comprehensive emulator for the Apple IIgs computer, coming soon to BeOS. XGS emulates "on the metal," so even software that directly accesses the IIgs hardware will usually work flawlessly.



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