I Built a Modern BeBox with HAIKU

Microcenter must be the easiest sponsor to promote. Such a great retailer

Bless Mrs. Retro, tolerating infinite shenanigans.

It is insane that you can build a supercomputer power from 80s/90s using off-the-shelf components and then run BEOS on it. 🤣

"I am a big fan of Haiku operating system" , well , we almost didn't noticed it ...xD

"Tea Time at H.P. Lovecrafts House" is my favorite quote this month!

That’s my nearest Microcenter, too! I love it! And everyone on the staff with whom I’ve spoken has been a total pro and super helpful!

There are two things I want in this world:- 1) Physical stores where I can buy anything I want whenever I want it. No online waiting time. 2) Independently owned shops that have specific types of stock in each one. I don't want everything to be an oversized general store that only has the same handful of products from each category in them. Do you know how annoying it to need something and your only options are Sainsbury's, Kaufland, Alza and Coles, no matter which direction you go? It's so bloody refreshing to see a YouTube channel be sponsored by an actual shop, not a subscription or website.

Wish we had something like Micro Center here in the UK!

You know what would be really cool, though? If Haiku supported the modern POWER architecture and the Talos II and Blackbird motherboards. Then you could build a modern IBM POWER-based BeBox. The original was PowerPC-based, right? Much more analogous :) I love the case design. That BeOS badge on the front is fricken perfect, and the RGB along the sides on the front is brilliant.

I wish Micro Center would put a store closer to me! My closest one is in Baltimore, but i've stopped at the St. Davids store a few times when out that way to see my kids. Love that place. Oh wait... maybe they shouldn't put a store closer, then i'd be broke!

I soooooo wanna see 2D and 3D acceleration finally work on Haiku, please make it happen this year.

You lucky bastard. Nearest MicroCenter to me is like 2 hours away. Which, to someone who can't drive, feels about as far away as Alpha Centauri.

I love Micro Center, but does anyone else remember their store #1 before they became a "big box" store? It was really something special that I have fond memories of. It was in a two-story building and was set up kinda as if each department was its own store in a small shopping mall. Each department had their own registers, so you could check out from any of them, but it literally felt like you were going into a mall with each store dedicated to something computer or electronics related. It was just missing a food court.

What we really need is a USB interface to an Arduino based LED controller (eg. WS2812/5 protocol). A small polling based app that reads CPU usage every 1/60 sec and lights up the LED’s accordingly, and presto, BlinkenLights. A Haiku dev can get this done in a day. For my employer I’ve done something similar (RS232 port), but for mass market appeal you need USB. A good option would be to 3D print a mini case with LED lamps, say 8 strips (like the good old HiFi spectrum analysers) and sell this to retro enthuisiasts.

This video can't be real. No catastrophes. Nothing went wrong. Completely unlike every other video on this channel. I do love the light strips.

Flip the radiator, it's mounted upside down which is not ideal. It will be noisier and if there's air bubbles it can damage or destroy the pump. Your pump is at the top of the loop with the radiator's current orientation and you never want that, and it'll allow you to mount your pump in the correct orientation rather than sideways.

lol pretty sure when the Microcenter opened up here in Indy there was a big sign that said "please don't shoot your youtube/tiktok/whatever videos in here"

I can't believe it. Action Modern.

That is one cool project! I still have my original BeBox (Dual PPC 66 MHz). It still works after almost 30 years, and I run it every now and then - purely for nostalgia! BTW, the LED strips on the sides reflect the activities of the processors.

I went to Micro Center last week and they were still selling internal narrow SCSI cables! Since I had just had the need for one of those recently, I picked one up. And yes, they still sell all the old connectivity in the USB aisle.