BeOS Masters Awards: August '97
Twenty-six Master honorees highlight some of the
best new software for the BeOS.
August 5, 1997, at the Boston Computer Museum, the winners of the second BeOS Masters Awards were announced, recognizing some of the newest, most innovative and useful software for the Be Operating System (BeOS). A total of nine developers were presented with BeOS Masters awards, and seventeen developers were noted with honorable mentions.
In addition, special awards were presented to two individuals. Jon Watte and Chris Herborth were recognized for their outstanding and persistant contributions to the Be developer community as a whole.
The BeOS Masters Awards are designed to encourage and recognize the individuals behind some of the best software being released for the BeOS. The BeOS Masters also represent a recognition of peers, as the selection panel is made up of some of the best engineers responsible for the core of the Be Operating System. This round of BeOS Masters honored early work done with the recently released BeOS Preview Release for PowerPC.
In a separate announcement at the Be Developer Conference, Be demonstrated BeOS for Intel publicly for the first time. The company announced that the next full upgrade for the BeOS will simultaneously release in Intel and PowerPC versions.
Be's success in tapping into the new and world-wide pool of programmers is reflected in the number of student and non-US developers winning awards. Of the twenty-eight awards presented, eight were students and thirteen were from outside the US. The momentum for BeOS applications continues, with nearly twice as many applications considered for August BeOS Masters Awards as were considered for the May competition.
BeOS Master Award Winners
Commercial
Adam
Adamation
Author: Paul CarmineSend and receive email from all major email packages. Use Adam's advanced yet easy-to-use forms generator to create custom forms for a variety of purposes: surveys, invoices, timesheets, or just plain "funsheets."
Audio Elements
Adamation
Author: Attila MezeiAudio Elements is an object-oriented, data processing framework designed for musicians, sound engineers, and others who work with sound synthesis and special effects.
Freeware
Attraction
Author: Nicolas & Daniel FischerAttraction combines physical properties with realtime display to deliver a whole new class of application.
BamBam
Author: Gertjan van RatingenBamBam is a digital audio application that provides recording, playback, editing, and resampling. It supports reading AIFF, WAV, and 8SVX files.
Layout Library
Author: Marco Nelissen
A collection of classes that enable developers to easily create fully resizable and font-sensitve GUI's.
Shareware
Pulsar
Author: Raphael MollPulsar is an extensible FFT spectro psychedelic sound analyser. It displays graphics in sync with the music or sounds being played.
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h.scribe
Author: Charalabos Papazissis
h.scribe is an html editor tool.
Student
Fontisuite
Author: Rainer RiedlFontisuite is a unicode font utility package.
Emerging Products
Studio A
Authors: Mark Hall, Paul Manley, Simon Clarke
A next-generation digital content authoring program for the Be platform. StudioA brings unparalleled speed and an ease of use. It features editing for audio, video and images as well as a plug-in architecture.
Outstanding Contributors
A special award and thank you to both
Jon Watte
Chris Herborth
For their outstanding contributions to the BeOS developer community.
Honorable Mentions
Abacus
Author: Bjorn TornqvistA fast BeOS spreadsheet.
ANewsWire
Author: Abraham FlaxmanAn internet news reader.
BeAVI
Author: Stuart MacKinnonAn AVI movie player
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More infoBeConstruct
Author: Florian BalleneggerA replicant building tool.
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More infoBeInternetCentral
Author: Hubert FiguiereAn Internet configuration utility.
BeREND
Author: Russell CookA network 3D renderer.
BeatWare Paint
Author: BeatWareA fast paint application.
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More infoDOSfs
Author: Andreas HuberAllows mouting DOS volumes.
Felix
Author: Xavier DucrohetAn IRC chat client.
LaunchPad
Author: Hiromasa KatoDesktop management utility
Legolas
Author: Seth FlaxmanA drawing application written by a 6th grade programmer!
Mr. Thermister
Author: Brian WagnerMr. Thermister takes advantage of the GeekPort on the BeBox to measure temperature.
Prodigal VRML Viewer
Author: Peder BlekkenAn OpenGL® based viewer for VRML files.
QuickLetter Addressbook
Author: Working SoftwareAn address and contact manager.
rö color
Author: rö design
Realtime color mixer supporting HTML color drag & dropSineClock
Author: Douglass RepettoHypnotic clock application that encodes time via three sine waves.
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The BeOS Master Awards winners are being presented with UMAX S900 systems featuring dual PowerPC 604 processors. Honorable Mention winners were presented with Iomega Jaz or Zip drives, or 3DFX based accelerated graphics cards. BeOS Master participants will receive a BeOS Masters polo shirt available only to participants.
