While previous roundups of R5 apps running under Haiku have often shown 3dEyes' screenshot of small R5 card games running on Haiku, or similar collections of small games, I recieved an email from John "[Beta]" Drinkwater today about his gaming progress on the fledgling OS. John keeps a large Flickr archive of his Haiku screenshots, but with particular attention to be paid to this shot of The Secret of Monkey Island running under Haiku. With nothing but a slight cursor bug, this ScummVM-run game is using SDL, and is overall quite a hefty not-quite-native application, but runs perfectly as an R5 binary - both ScummVM and the SDL binaries.

Haiku is now capable of running quite a number of BeOS R5 apps, from the tiny to the really quite huge, in BeOS terms, such as Wonderbrush, be they purely BeOS-related applications or ports like ScummVM and the VLC Media Player.

In slightly unrelated news, my first commercial software review in around two years of contributing to HNN (and TBJ, as it was then) should be available tommorow. Rudolf's 3D driver got the distinction of being my first overall ;)