To run OS 4.0

[Xanaa]

Hi,
I know this far fetched... what would be needed to have a 2000 be able to run the 4.0 system? like hardware.I found a few games that would like 04  to run that are from  Aminet
Would a 040 cpu handle it with 32 megs of ram?
Thanks,
Xanaa

[pjhutch]

No, you need a Cyberstorm PPC 603e or 604 PowerPC processor and plenty of RAM. An A2000 will NOT be able to run AmigaOS 4.0, only 3.9 tops.

http://www.pcguru.plus.com/amigaos4_faq.html

[McVenco]

OS4 needs a PPC CPU, so either you buy an A1200 with BlizzardPPC, an A4000 with Cyberstorm PPC, or an AmigaOne system. Or you find yourself one of the 4 PPC developer boards and push that on a Blizzard 2060 accelerator, like the one you can find in the photo album on this site.

To give a short answer: your A2000 will never run OS4.

[amiga_3k]

There is this guy who has a maxed-out Amiga 2000 with one of the over-rare PhaseV PPC developerboards for the A2000. Can't remember if he has OS4 running on it or not.

[persia]

Basically OS4 doesn't use the motorola processor at all.  If it runs a legacy program it uses a 68000 emulator.  OS4 *requires* PPC and that won't change.

[Hans_]

amiga_3k wrote:
There is this guy who has a maxed-out Amiga 2000 with one of the over-rare PhaseV PPC developerboards for the A2000. Can't remember if he has OS4 running on it or not.

Link to the video showing what he did. Whether OS4 will install and run on it is a completely different matter.

Hans