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The Be Newsletter is a weekly electronic newsletter for Be developers and customers, covering the latest news about Be and the BeOS. You'll find sample code and tips, information about upcoming Be products and events, and announcements from Be developers.

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Recent Issues of the Be Newsletter

• Volume III, Issue 17, April 28, 1999
  • BeOS Bible Discount
  • BEDEPOT: New Be Products
  • BUG BYTES: It's not Unusual
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Cross Tools for x86 BeOS Development, By Fred Fish
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Muxamania Part 2: Better Than Haggis (The Guts of SelectorNode), By Owen Smith
  • Pricing Power, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 16, April 21, 1999
  • Be Magazine Survey
  • Here Comes the First Big Marketing Wave, By Roy Graham
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Son of Teletype Meets Multimedia, By Rico Tudor
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Duty Now for the Future, By Howard Berkey
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Muxamania Part 1: The Media Control Panel Application, By Owen Smith
  • More Better Formats...and a New Wing for the Great Roach Motel, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 15, April 14, 1999
  • New Resource "abuzz" with BeOS Audio Product Info
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Driver Settings, By Arve Hjønnevàg
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: All Hail the Mother Node!, By Stephen Beaulieu
  • Technical Support and Your Bottom Line, By Dave Brown
  • After the BeDC, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 14, April 7, 1999
  • BE DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: And Now, Live From Be..., By Steve Sakoman
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Tips and Tricks for Writing High Performance OpenGL Programs, By R. Jason Sams
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: The Quest for the Fountain of Audio, By Douglas Wright
  • The 10,000 Mark, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 13, March 31, 1999
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Doing File I/O From A Device Driver, By Dmitriy Budko
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Floating Point and Shared Libraries - Life's Different Down Under, By Steven Olson
  • Is There Life After the PC?, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 12, March 24, 1999
  • BE DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE: Register Now!
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Exact Change Only -- Riding the Universal Serial Bus Through User-land, By Brian Swetland
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Getting Connected, By Hank Sackett
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Updating An Old Sound Card Driver, By Marc Ferguson
  • Where Is Your Voice?, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 11, March 17, 1999
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Nicer Lines, By Benoit Schillings
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Simplifying Media Nodes, By Stephen Beaulieu
  • Browser Integration: Methods and Motives, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 10, March 10, 1999
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: BeIDE Add-on API, By John Dance
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Automating Myself into a New Line of Work, By Steven Black
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Media Kit Basics: Build Your Own Mixer For Fun And Profit!, By Owen Smith
  • The First Media Kit Conference, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 9, March 3, 1999
  • The BeOS Programmer's Reference Now Available!
  • Icon Shareware: List Your BeOS Applications
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: NetPositive Q&A, By Scott Barta
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: ParameterWebs and Nodes and Controls, Oh My!, By Christopher Tate
  • Is the Customer King?, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 8, February 24, 1999
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Adventures in Graphics Drivers, By Leo Schwab
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: The Configuration Manager, Part II (Back into the fold), By Victor Tsou
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Time isn't Relative, its Variable, By Stephen Beaulieu
  • A Crack in the Wall, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 7, February 17, 1999
  • BE DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS
  • BE DEVELOPER CONFERENCE: Register Now!
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: An Introduction to Input Method Aware Views, By Hiroshi Lockheimer
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Using and Writing Device Drivers on the BeOS, By Jon Watte
  • (No article this week), By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 6, February 10, 1999
  • DOWNLOAD.COM: List Your BeOS Applications
  • LE BUZZ: New BeOS Audio Site
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Abusing Multithreading, By Cyril Meurillon
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Using Archived Interface Objects, By Jean-Baptiste Queru
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Getting Ahead of Ourselves -- Playing Movies With the New Media Kit, By Eric Shepherd
  • More Browser Integration Bedtime Stories, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 5; February 3, 1999
  • BE ONLINE: Sample Code Reorganized
  • BE USERS: Recommend a Reseller
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: BScreen Improvements for R4, By Trey Boudreau
  • Get Ready for Resellers and OEMs, By Dave Johnson
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Cults and Kool-Aid, By Doug Fulton
  • Another Bedtime Story, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 4, January 27, 1999
  • DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Device Driver Idioms, By Dominic Giampaolo
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Worn Out Rhymes, By Baron Arnold
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Media Kit Basics: A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven, By Owen Smith
  • It Feels Just Right..., By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 3, January 20, 1999
  • BE IS HIRING!
  • BEDEPOT.COM: Shopping is a Feeling, By Melanie Walker
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Writing a Modular Color Picker, By Pavel Cisler and Robert Chinn
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Media Kit Basics: Consumers and Producers, By Owen Smith
  • Organic Pace of Change, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 2, January 13, 1999
  • UPCOMING EVENTS
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: An Amusing Diversion or How to Make Magnify Suck Up even More CPU Cycles, By Robert Chin
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Useful Applications of BeOS Scripting, By Jeff Bush
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: A Stitch in MIME, By Eric Shepherd
  • The Next BeDC, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume III, Issue 1, January 6, 1999
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: BFont Improvements in R4, By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Getting into (B)Shape, By Michael Morrissey
  • New Year Business Models, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 51, December 23, 1998
  • BE CLASSIFIEDS
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: QuickerPaint By George Hoffman
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Kernel Engineer Breaches Software's Iron Curtain and Lives to Tell About It By Ficus Kirkpatrick
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: The Cow Piano By Doug Fulton

• Volume II, Issue 50, December 16, 1998
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Inspector Detector: The Shelf Inspector By Peter Potrebic
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Memories of Tomorrow By Mikol Ryon
  • The Next Steps, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 49, December 9, 1998
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Creating an Internet Search Engine By Russ Mc Mahon
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Something Fishy By Adam Haberlach
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: The Refrigerator Question By Eric Shepherd
  • Developers Large and Small, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 48, December 2, 1998
  • BE CLASSIFIEDS
  • BeDepot.com: New BeOS Software
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: R4 Drag-and-Drop, By Jon Watte
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: The Configuration Manager, Part I, By Victor Tsou
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Back to Basics, By Stephen Beaulieu
  • Our Take on AOL's Acquisition of Netscape, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 47, November 25, 1998
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Comdex Report, by Bob Herold
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: The Art of Prototyping, by Tim Martin
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Sweet Mystery of Life, by Doug Fulton
  • Giving Thanks, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 46, November 18, 1998
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: The Kitchen Sink, By Robert Polic
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: The Bitchin' Async, By Owen Smith
  • More Notes From the Road: Comdex, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 45, November 11, 1998
  • BeDepot.com: New BeOS Software
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: That BeOS is one baaad mother-[Shut your mouth!] ...just talking 'bout BeOS, By George Hoffman
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Are You Experienced?, By Matt Bogosian
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Sounding Off With the New Media Kit, By Eric Shepherd
  • More Notes From the Road: BeOS in Tokyo, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 44, November 4, 1998
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Removable Media, By Arve Hjonnevag
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Watching Stuff, By Stephen Beaulieu
  • Testing and Tracking, By Dave Johnson
  • Standards, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 43, October 27, 1998
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Mastering Your Own BeOS Demo CD, By Ming Low
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: SCSI From UserLand, By Brian Swetland
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Getting a Grip on BJoystick, By Eric Shepherd
  • Notes From the Road, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 42, October 21, 1998
  • BE CLASSIFIEDS: Student Seeking Internship
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Optimizing Your Applications for Cache and Memory Access, By Dmitriy Budko
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Scrolling to Oblivion, By Steven Black
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Untangling Threads, By Michael Morrissey
  • PC Shift, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 41, October 14, 1998
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Where Does the Time Go?, By Rico Tudor
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: But You Can't Make Her Think, By Doug Fulton
  • A Red Herring, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 40, October 7, 1998
  • BE CLASSIFIEDS: Jobs Available
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Mining The Net..., By Benoit Schillings
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Modal Muddle, By Owen Smith
  • When Is It Done?, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 39, September 30, 1998
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Using the New MALLOC_DEBUG, By Scott Barta
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Changes In The OpenGL World, By R. Jason Sams
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Fal Parsi, By Doug Fulton
  • Beta Season, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 38, September 23, 1998
  • BE CLASSIFIEDS
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS:While You're Waiting For R4..., By Steve Sakoman
  • Who Is Your Customer?, By Dave Johnson
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP:Scribble Scrabble, By Owen Smith
  • Wintel Restructured?, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 37, September 16, 1998
  • BE CLASSIFIEDS: Be Programmer Available
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Doing More Work Than You Should, By Dominic Giampaolo
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Code Maintenance for the Millennium and a DBUG Update, By Fred Fish
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Called Himself a King, By Doug Fulton
  • The Internet Coming of Age?, By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume II, Issue 36, September 9, 1998
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Changes in the BeOS Driver API , By Cyril Meurillon
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Higher-Performance Display , By Jean-Baptiste Quéru
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Yet Another Locking Article , By Stephen Beaulieu
  • Is the A/V Space a Niche Market?, By Jean-Louis Gassée

Early Be Newsletters

Be Newsletters from 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998 are still available; they provide a great look at how the company has evolved over the years.

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