BeNews is back up. Sorta. Their server has been down for 3 weeks, and it was determined that their perl interpreter was breaking under the load of their forums and commenting system. As such, they are both disabled until they can be fixed. Meanwhile, the begroovy servers, which were also down, still have no email capability. We are still trying to fix it, as we lost one of our partitions in the crash. In any case, I am sure both servers will sort out their problems and get back up to speed quickly. In the meantime, feel free to use our forums instead. We are glad to see BeNews back, and look forward to reading more about OS news. Oh wait… i mean BeOS News.

BeNews recently ran an interview with Realtech-VR (great name, that) which covers everything they have been doing since SpaceGirl, a great looking 3d space shooter that has been discontinued for quite a while. The intriguing thing is that it quickly came out in the interview that Realtech-VR is strongly considering creating a Direct3D wrapper for BeOS api’s. In otherwords, Direct3D apps would just build on BeOS. Read on for details…
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