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Utilities for playing BeOS games

BeOS software can be run on any x86 computer, as well as many non-x86 platforms. How this is accomplished depends on what operating system your computer is running.

No version of DOS, Windows, OS/2, Linux, or macOS has native support for BeOS software. Haiku is a free and open source reverse engineered version of BeOS, currently in beta.

Operating Systems

BeOS Personal Edition

BeOS is an operating system for x86 and PowerPC-based computers. To help win over Windows, Be Inc. released a trimmed down, free version called BeOS Personal Edition which installs in a Windows folder and then creates a bootable floppy disk. The boot disk allows you to boot into and run BeOS without having to create a separate partition. The Windows version can install on a FAT32 or NTFS hard drive, but the boot disk couldn't find BeOS when I installed it in a copy of Windows XP, perhaps because it doesn't recognize NTFS 3.1. I have been able to run BeOS PE from a copy of Windows Me. It should work in Windows 95, 98, Me, or NT 4.0, but may not work under Windows XP or newer.

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BeOS Personal Edition

Downloads

BeOS Personal Edition R5.0.1 Freeware (47,204,054 bytes) 2000-06-06 Win9x
BeOS Personal Edition R5.0 Freeware (44,721,913 bytes) 2000-03-28 Win9x

Patches

BeOS Personal Edition R5.0 to R5.0.1 Update (7,555,581 bytes) 2000-06-09 BeOS (x86)

Haiku

Haiku is a free and open source operating system that reverse engineers and extends BeOS. Haiku fixes a bug that prevented BeOS from using more than 1 GB of RAM, and a bug that caused timing issues on fast CPUs. BeOS' standard browser, NetPositive, has been replaced by WebPositive, which adds support for CSS, HTML5, SVG, and HTTPS. The 32-bit x86 version is compatible with BeOS software and drivers. The 64-bit x86 version cannot run 32-bit applications yet, which means that it can't run BeOS software.

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Haiku

Downloads

Haiku R1/Beta 5 32-bit (1,477,246,976 bytes) 2024-09-13 Haiku32

Emulation/Virtualization

VirtualBox

VirtualBox is a straightforward virtualization package that allows almost any PC operating system to be run in a window on PCs running Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris, with virtually no loss of performance (as long as you have enough RAM to spare for the guest operating system). You can run a real copy of DOS (with or without Win16) or Win9x, to play games from this site and be able to switch back and forth between the host and guest operating system without rebooting. VirtualBox is a virtualization environment, not an operating system emulator, so you will have to install your own copy of DOS or Windows. VirtualBox can emulate a SoundBlaster 16, which is great for DOS and Win16, or Intel AC97, which may be better for Win9x games. Shared folders can be created to transfer files to and from the guest operating system. There are ports for Solaris and a number of Linux distributions, so I recommend visiting the home page if the version for your operating system isn't listed below.

Support for 32-bit Windows hosts was dropped in version 6.0. The table below shows the latest version of VirtualBox for each (host) version of Windows and macOS.

Windows macOS VBox
32-bit 64-bit Server
11
10
2025
2022
14
13
12
11
7.1.4
8.1 2019
2016
2012 R2
2012
10.15 7.0.20
10.14
10.13
6.1.50
8
7
2008 R2 10.12 6.0.24
10
8.1
8
7
2008 10.11
10.10
5.2.44
Vista SP1 Vista SP1 10.9 5.1.38
10.8 5.0.40
XP 2003 10.7
10.6
4.3.40
10.5 4.1.44
10.4
10.3
10.2
10.1
10.0
3.0.14

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VirtualBox

Downloads

VirtualBox v7.1.2 for Windows (110,768,688 bytes) 2024-09-27 Win64
VirtualBox v7.1.2 for macOS (136,794,257 bytes) 2024-09-27 macOS-64
VirtualBox v7.0.20 for Windows (110,252,592 bytes) 2024-07-16 Win64
VirtualBox v7.0.20 for macOS (133,404,213 bytes) 2024-07-16 macOS-64
VirtualBox v6.1.50 for macOS (127,991,705 bytes) 2024-01-16 macOS-64
VirtualBox v6.0.24 for Windows (170,537,992 bytes) 2020-07-14 Win64
VirtualBox v6.0.24 for macOS (138,357,293 bytes) 2020-07-14 macOS-64
VirtualBox v5.2.44 for Windows (110,544,904 bytes) 2020-07-14 Win32
VirtualBox v5.2.44 for macOS (91,533,896 bytes) 2020-07-14 macOS-64
VirtualBox v5.1.38 for Windows (124,559,872 bytes) 2018-05-09 Win32
VirtualBox v5.1.38 for macOS (94,906,947 bytes) 2018-05-09 macOS-64
VirtualBox v5.0.40 for macOS (90,418,524 bytes) 2017-04-28 macOS-64
VirtualBox v4.3.40 for Windows (103,265,248 bytes) 2016-08-22 Win32
VirtualBox v4.3.40 for macOS (108,464,867 bytes) 2016-08-22 macOS-32
VirtualBox v4.1.44 for macOS (102,859,589 bytes) 2015-11-11 macOS-32
VirtualBox v3.0.14 for macOS (66,017,350 bytes) 2010-03-18 macOS-32