Hopkins FBI (BeOS game) in Haiku OS

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Recently I have purchased a copy of Hopkins FBI for BeOS game from eBay. I’ve read somewhere that it should work in Haiku nightly releases and I took a risk of USD 5… :)

Since a couple of weeks ago I have installed the DiscoverHaiku distribution (review is coming as soon as I have a little time for it), I have tried Hopkins FBI on it.

DiscoverHaiku_Desktop

(Just for the record – and shameless self-advertisement, DiscoverHaiku is bundled with my very own little development, ColorBalls game… )

No surprise, that Hopkins FBI for BeOS works just fine… gameplay is smooth, sound is working and it is a fun old school game to waste time with.

Screenshots:

The content of the CD:

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The README file: 

 

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The Installation (no problems at all , even it is not hpkg format obviously):

 

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The Installed files:

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In game (plays without any problems):

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USD 5 very well spent… :)

HaikuWeather – weather info on the Haiku desktop

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I found a small news on the Facebook page of Haiku OS about HaikuWeather, which is a small program to display weather information based on set location.

While this is no any magic, the program looks nice and polished, so I have downloaded from GitHub the source and compiled it.

It compiled without any errors.

HaikuWeather1.png

The window is simple, but functional… :)

In the Edit menu one can set the location (manually) and change to Fahrenheit.

In the View menu there is a possibility to show forecast (as below).

HaikuWeather_Small.png

Enjoy…

Haiku OS and 300Mbp WIFI (Thinkpad X31)

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Yesterday I have installed a recent nightly build (hrev48595) of Haiku OS onto my IBM Thinkpad X31… No problems as expected, only the upgraded 2200BG wifi card required the wifi firmwares to be installed.

…and now a little bit of rewind to 2nd of March 2010, when I used WIFI with Haiku OS the very first time, since after one day earlier there was a commit, which enabled it.

Since my X31 got an Intel Pro Wireless 2200BG card (which was already an upgrade from the original 2100) I have decided to try my luck again… :)

I have purchased a TP-Link TL-WN861N miniPCI card which is one of the two 300Mbps Wireless miniPCI adapters I am aware. It was around 20 USD, so not that expensive to make an attempt to use 300Mbps in my oldish Thinkpad X31.

TL-WN861N miniPCI

Luckily my X31 is already hacked to accept non IBM approved wifi cards, so it was a simple replacement.

It works just as expected and the speed is better than previously. Much better…

100 Mbps on Haiku OS

Big like to the developers… :)

JAVA and Haiku OS – ThinkFree wordprocessor

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Haiku OS openjdk JAVA appears to be working fine. ThinkFree Office v4.0 works, opens and saves doc and docx formats as well. While it is not perfect yet, it is worth to try (seems that font rendering is not super-smooth, and not all the installed fonts are usable just yet).

Softwares on the Screenshot:
DOCX open – ThinkOffice v4.0
Browse SMB share – uCommander
IRC – Vision
Haiku site – WebPositive
(radeon accelerant used, Haiku OS hrev47807)

Click on the below image, to open it in a new tab.

  HTML tutorial

To get ThinkFree Office v4.0 you need the following files to be installed:

ThinkFree is not a free software, but there is a 30 days evaluation version (which the hpkg file is too).

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SMB / CIFS shares in Haiku OS

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Not because I use an awful lots of Windows computers in my house, but SMB is definitely I was waiting for to be arrived to Haiku OS. The reason is quite simple. I have purchased some time ago a Western Digital My Cloud device, which is an awesome Personal Cloud device (and a home networked backup system as well).

I mainly use it from OSX (both laptop and desktop), sometime on the road, but so far I could reach its content from Haiku OS only via FTPPositive. Through FTP it obviously works well, but I was wondering if SMB protocol functions in Haiku OS already.

Well, there used to be (back in BeOS days) a rudimentary SMB/CIFS implementation cifsmount – a command line utility – and also a GUI for it EasyMounter (still the sw is available on Haikuware), but it does not work anymore due to networking changes.

Again, JAVA to the rescue!

muCommander is a cross-platform Norton Commander clone (yeah, one more, again), and since JAVA was ported to Haiku OS some time ago, and it works indeed fairly well.

SMB Shares in Haiku OS

You need openjava Haiku port (hpkg if you run a recent nightly build), and the muCommander hpkg (available from kim1963, Haiku OS contributors own repo). Since it is not an official Haiku package, please use it on your own risk.

Credit goes to kim1963 for the packages!

DataCommander – yet another NC clone for Haiku OS

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I have found yet another Norton Commander clone (like Genesis Commander and BeFar) – browsing the good old Haikuware archives (great source for BeOS and Haiku OS software).

DataCommander (or Dateimesiter in German) is completely written in yab.

It works very well indeed, and since it is a native software, it is worth to download, and try.

As the above picture (my installation) shows it has some graphical glitches (on the top part of the gui), because it should look like the following picture:

It is easy to install (arrives in a zip file), can be run with a double click. I have also created an HPKG package installer, and it appears to be working fine.

I hope that the small gui problems will be solved soon, together with the remaining missing features (notably the most anoying one, that upon exit it does not preserve the size of the window.

Haiku OS x86_64

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It is nice to run Haiku OS on a 64bit CPU, and indeed it works just as expected.

One thing to note, that since it is a 64bit gcc4 build, it neither does run the old BeOS softwares or Haiku 32bit programs. So the sw selection is limited to the preinstalled apps, HaikuDepo, or the self compiled ones.

Haiku OS 64bit