# johnrash/bebox

> A Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox, the dual-processor computer BeOS was born on, running both PowerPC models from their boot ROMs and the earlier AT&T Hobbit prototypes.

- Magnitude: 3.0 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 10 total · +5 stars measured 2026-10-16, 02:13–05:09 UTC, ≈ 15 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: C++ · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-15 · Last push: 2026-10-15
- GitHub: https://github.com/johnrash/bebox · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/johnrash/bebox

## Useful for

- Run BeOS for PowerPC releases from Developer Release 6 to R5.0.3 without original hardware
- Boot the 1993-94 Hobbit prototype system from surviving disk images
- Install BeOS on a new disk image using the CD or floppy installer

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-16 (UTC), 02:13–05:09: 5 → 10 stars (+5). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +15 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 10 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox” — 37 points, 5 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 0
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 12 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v1.0.0 (2026-10-15)

## Stars per day, last 2 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-15 … 2026-10-16: 10, 5

## Hacker News

- BeBox is a Haiku application that emulates Be Inc.'s BeBox — 37 points, 10 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50111742

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-16 05:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.