Hello,

I'm looking for experienced Squeakers to test out our BeOS Squeak VM, break 
it, and offer constructive criticism.  If you are interested, the BeOS runs 
on many PCs & Macs--compatibility info is available at:

http://www.be.com/support/guides/beosreadylist_intel.html   (pcs)
http://www.befunk.com/   (pcs; unoffical)
http://www.be.com/support/guides/beosreadylist_ppc.html   (macs)

The BeOS is an exciting OS designed for high-bandwidth digital media and the 
internet.  As such, I believe it is a perfect platform for Squeak.  It is 
also worth noting that we have received excellent support from Be even to the 
point that they will be extending/reimplementing part of their API to 
accommodate a performance hole we found.

I plan on making the sound & MIDI support robust, accelerating the balloon 
primitives, adding support for Ian's jitter, and making the VM event-based.  
Anyone who can help with this is welcome and encouraged to.

The VM is currently in late alpha and supports the following features:

File & directory primitives
Screen primitives (including BDirectWindow output which is like DirectX,
  however our implementation is still in need of more optimization)
Support for pluggable primitives
TCP/IP client & server
Sound output
MIDI output (including output to the BeOS's Headspace Synth which is quite 
  nice)
Serial I/O
Joystick

It is currently missing support for:

Sound input
MIDI input

The VM and the sources can be downloaded at:

http://home.beoscentral.com/besqueak/

Thanks for your time,

Colin Sarsfield