The Mac is easy to do...just put the image file in the resource fork as a data resource.
Not sure about BeOS yet...should be do-able, but I'm still working on the port ;-) 
(Decided to redo the VM as a true OOP as opposed to trying to kludge it)

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On Monday, February 02, 1998 4:38 PM, Andreas Raab [SMTP:raab at isgnw.cs.Uni-Magdeburg.DE] wrote:
> > What if a Squeak VM file could recognize if an image file were simply
> > appended to it, and do the right thing?  Then it should take no more to
> > make a double-clickable app than to do a save followed by a file copy. 
> 
> Sounds good!
> 
> > OS gurus:  Can this be done simply on the Mac PPC, 68K, Windows, Unix,
> > OS/2, etc? 
> 
> I just tried appending stuff to an executable on Win95 and I could start
> it. It's not fully clear how to find the image in the executable and I
> also assume that a number of virus scanners will complain about undeclared
> data in the executable, but in general it looks as if it works.
> 
> Andreas
> 
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