The sky in your computer

Programs for BeOS

The main source of information on this operating system is in the pages of the own company that has developed it. At the present time this company has been bought by Palm and exists a campaign of collection of companies to save this operating system, since it seems that Palm does not have interest in continuing developing it. You can sign here. In order to locate to programs and resources, we recommended, in Spanish, BeOS Airs and, in English, BeBits.

3Dstarchart: Unlike the conventional celestial chart programs, this one allows the user to fix the datum point from the Sun and to visualize the Universe in three dimensions. 540 Kb (Intel R4.5)/429 Kb (PowerPC) (freeware, BeOS).

BeEphem: Application of terminal of the Ephem program, that works in way text and that provides in screen information of all planets and two objects chosen by the user, generating graphical and listings. 98 Kb (Intel R5) (freeware, BeOS).

Mizar: Newtonian gravitational simulator. It can pay attention any number of bodies with his masses, positions and speeds and the program calculates how the movement of the bodies is developed. Its capacity to deshacer/rehacer for which it has been able to become back and to visualize previous results. 431 Kb (Intel R5) (freeware, BeOS).

To pave Simulator System: Simulator of the Solar System compiled for BeOS5 x86, without support for joystick. It needs GLUT and libjpeg. 1.5 MB (Intel R5) (they open source, BeOS).

Steve Moshier's Ephemeris Program: Powerful computer of events. 277 Kb (Intel R5) (they open source, BeOS).

  Copyright © 2003 Javier Sánchez Quirós