Michael Lotz, of Tracker/NewFS fame, has started his own personal Haiku blog, and has been working on testing the app_server beyond what Haiku have at least publically stated it can do.

At this stage, he has already managed to get Be's slimdemo, a seriously cut down app_server, to interface with his Radeon graphics card in hardware accelerated 2D mode, using Haiku. The driver is Thomas Kurschel's driver for BeOS, and proves that Haiku's driver model is significantly similar to R5's

However, he has also managed to get Haiku's app_server to run on Haiku - sort of. Development of the app_server takes place using a DisplayDriver that draws to a BWindow, meaning it can be run in BeOS without murdering the running app_server and hence all your open apps, etc. The AccelerantDriver, which uses the graphics card to draw directly the monitor, was somewhat outdated.

With some work, Michael has the AccelerantDriver up to date, meaning that the app_server can now draw to the graphics card. This runs on R5, with some odd results, but also runs on Haiku. Whilst he didn't have time to test it completely, the app_server is able to set video modes on Haiku, and should be able to do the same level of BWindow/BView calling it can on R5.

**UPDATED**

Michael has now uploaded a screenshot of the app_server running on Haiku.

In addition to that, Michael took the screenshot with Haiku itself, the app_server taking input from the input_server to cause the shot, saved to the disk through OpenBFS.