Software Highlights

Software Highlights provides an short review of selected applications.

If you searching for a collection of the latest applications, drivers and utilities currently available for the BeOS go to BeBits or BeZip.

If you have written or produced a great software for BeOS, send it to us and we will test your software and make it, perhaps, to a "Software Highlight"!

Graphic applications

Refraction - The BeOS Imaging package
VideoLAN client - Plays DVDs (even encrypted ones), VCDs, MPEG, AVI (including DivX) and mp3 files
HybridDivx - DivX (also 5.0) and MPEG-4, MS-MPEG V2, XviD Codec
eXposer - Animation and linetesting tool
Demo studio - Animation creator
Director - Video editor
POV-Ray - Persistence of Vision Ray Tracer
Blender - Complete 3D suite for modeling, animation, rendering and postproduction
Secundum Artem Pixel32 - Image/animation editing tool
Easel - 2D painting software
BePhotoMagic - Image processing program
Becasso - Commercial paint/image editing application
BeAndSee - Image tumbnail browser and previewer

Sound applications

SampleStudio - Audio Edit & Recording Studio
PecoBeat - Beat sequencer
CL-Amp - Advanced audio player (like WinAmp)
GoGo-Gadget - mp3 encoder frontend
BamBam - Audio recorder/editor/player
T-RackS - Software Audio processor
Rack747 - 8 voice virtual synthesiser/sequencer/drum-machine
ColdCut - Multi channel audio editing
XRS - Rhythm Station
Qua - Futuristic hard disk recording and sequencing package
Q - Interactive music software
GrooveMaker - Loop-based remixing software and sound libraries

Office applications

Sum-It - A spreadsheet
Gobe Productive - Office suite
Abiword - Word processing program
PostgreSQL - Relational database
BeMyCheckbook - Home financial application
BeFinancial - Personal finance application

Web & Internet applications

BeZilla - Open Source Mozilla Web Browser
BeShare - Share Utility
RobinHood - Webserver
Vision - IRC client
Lynx - Text-based web browser
Phoenix - Redesign of the Mozilla browser component
Personal Proxy Gate - Local proxy server
Opera - The Web Browser Made For You!
Macromedia® Flash™ Player - to view Macromedia® Flash
Konqueror - BeOS Version of KDE web browser
Baxter - IRC client
Gim-ICQ - A native BeOS ICQ-clone
BeAIM - AOL Instant Messenger
NetPenguin - Feature packed FTP client
SoloFTP - Multi-user, multi-threaded ftp server
Beam - Full featured BeOS native e-mail client
Postmaster - Full featured BeOS native e-mail client
BeInformed - News reader application

System applications

Mail Daemon Replacement - Replace for the Be Mail Daemon
Helios CDRECORDer - Helios burns data, audio and bootable CDs
OpenTracker - A free, open-source version of the Tracker and Deskbar
BeBochs - x86 PC emulator
X11 - X Window System
BePDF - PDF reader
Ghostscript - Postscript and PDF viewer/converter
PDF Writer - PDF printer driver
BeCommander - Commander clone based mainly on Windows Commander

Games

Cinag - 2D top-down CHESS game
TuxFleet - 3D-Space Fight Simulator
Space Girl - 3D realtime spaceship simulator
Quake - id Software's shoot-em-up
QuakeII - id Software's shoot-em-up
Doom! - id Software's shoot-em-up
Elite - The New Kind - An Elite remake
Aleph One - 3D first-person shooter
FreeCraft - WarCraft clone
Civilization: Call to Power
Abuse - 360 degrees of side-scrolling action

Science & Math

ProCalc - Calculator
Solar System Simulator - Solar System Simulator
SkyORB - Solar System Simulator
SETI@Home - Scientific experiment
Mizar - N-body Newtonian gravitational simulator
gnuplot - package of gnuplot
BePeriodic - Periodic table of the elements
BeMath - Mathematical design tool & Calculator
3DStarchart - 3D astronomy program
3D Life-forms - Simulation environment for artificial life forms

Development

gcc 2.95.3 - gnupro c++ compiler
SpLocale - localization system - HEY DEVELOPER - USE IT!
Perl - Interpreter
PHP - Hypertext Preprocessor
Eddie - Programmers editor
Z80Tools - Z80/CPM emulator for use with Hi-Tech C/ASM Z80 compilers for CPM
Z88 Development Kit - Small C+ Compiler, Peephole Optimizer, a unified assembler and linker
Xerces-C - Apache.org's popular Xerces XML parser
Xalan-C - Apache.org's popular XSL Transformation Processor
TinyCOBOL - Cobol Language
Squirrel - A good scripting language
Regina Rexx - Rexx Interpreter
REBOL/Core - Internet communications language
Python - Studly and useful (not to mention easy-to-use) scripting language
NASM - Assembler, disassembler and BeIDE integration
JikesDevKit - IBM Jikes compiler
CLISP - Lisp language
Bwbasic - Bywater Basic
BinProlog - Prolog compiler
BForth - Forth interpreter
BeScript - Scripting language
BeSqueak - Smalltalk-80 environment
BeProlog - Prolog interpreter
BeKaffe - Java Runtime
Be88-BASIC - BASIC interpreter
winBe - An implementation of the Be API for Win32
Visual Be++ - Software development design tool