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Title: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: zylesea on February 10, 2011, 10:30:52 AM: User Ruud provided evidence that MorphOS 2.7 actually runs on the Apple eMac G4 1.42 GHz. Until yet only the 1.25 GHz version was confirmed to run MorphOS. The 1.42 GHz version doesn't supprt 3D yet (ATI 9600). Once 3D drivers for the 9600 will be there it will be pretty nice: not only isn't the 9600 too shabby, but the eMac 1.42 comes with 64 MB VRAM.
All in all it is good to know, since eMacs often can get picked up for real pocket money.

http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7704&forum=11
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: Amigamia on February 10, 2011, 12:04:50 PM: That is awesome! I really would like to see the iBook G4 supported. It is a nice little laptop. Any plans from MorphOS Team to support any PPC Apple laptops?
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: jacadcaps on February 10, 2011, 12:13:38 PM: Quote from: Amigamia;614609
That is awesome! I really would like to see the iBook G4 supported. It is a nice little laptop. Any plans from MorphOS Team to support any PPC Apple laptops?

We demoed MorphOS running on Apple PPC laptops many times already. We're not looking into iBooks though, but for now just the last two revisions of PowerBooks.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: takemehomegrandma on February 10, 2011, 03:17:16 PM: Quote from: zylesea;614603
User Ruud provided evidence that MorphOS 2.7 actually runs on the Apple eMac G4 1.42 GHz. Until yet only the 1.25 GHz version was confirmed to run MorphOS. The 1.42 GHz version doesn't supprt 3D yet (ATI 9600). Once 3D drivers for the 9600 will be there it will be pretty nice: not only isn't the 9600 too shabby, but the eMac 1.42 comes with 64 MB VRAM.
All in all it is good to know, since eMacs often can get picked up for real pocket money.

http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7704&forum=11

Gött MOS! :)
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: cv643d on February 10, 2011, 04:11:38 PM: åfan takemehomegrandmah är du svenne?

"WTF takemehomegrandmah" are you a swenny?
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: klx300r on February 10, 2011, 04:17:56 PM: @ Amigamia

I'm hypnotized by your bouncing avatar:crazy:
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: Iggy on February 10, 2011, 04:38:41 PM: Nice confirmation of something a lot of us suspected.
The only negative is the desktop space taken up by these systems and the possibility of the CRT failing on these relatively old computers.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: takemehomegrandma on February 10, 2011, 05:50:07 PM: Quote from: cv643d;614660
åfan takemehomegrandmah är du svenne?

"WTF takemehomegrandmah" are you a swenny?

Tummen upp! Visste du inte det?
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: tone007 on February 10, 2011, 05:56:16 PM: MorphOS is OK.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: kickstart on February 10, 2011, 07:09:45 PM: Quote from: Iggy;614667
Nice confirmation of something a lot of us suspected.
The only negative is the desktop space taken up by these systems and the possibility of the CRT failing on these relatively old computers.

Its relatively easy to make a kind of macmini with the emac and use another monitor.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: takemehomegrandma on February 10, 2011, 07:11:00 PM: Quote from: tone007;614677
MorphOS is OK.

MorphOS is Amiga done right! :)
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: tone007 on February 10, 2011, 07:22:07 PM: Quote from: takemehomegrandma;614684
MorphOS is Amiga done right! :)

I'll take OS3.9, thanks.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: tone007 on February 10, 2011, 07:25:10 PM: MorphOS is OK, it's the users that are the problem!
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: tone007 on February 10, 2011, 07:28:09 PM: MorphOS is Amiga done, right?
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: kedawa on February 10, 2011, 08:09:13 PM: Has anyone confirmed support for the 'education only' USB2.0 1GHz model?
It's the same as the 1.25GHz and 1.42GHz machines, just with a slower CPU and different BTO options.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: Lando on February 10, 2011, 11:18:49 PM: I just couldn't bring myself to get anything with a CRT in it these days. I*hate them so much. Big, heavy, finicky things. That said, I remember keeping my last CRT going for a whole nother year with periodic well-placed punches to the top of the case. That trick wouldn't work on an LCD.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: zylesea on February 11, 2011, 01:53:16 AM: Quote from: Lando;614704
I just couldn't bring myself to get anything with a CRT in it these days. I*hate them so much. Big, heavy, finicky things. That said, I remember keeping my last CRT going for a whole nother year with periodic well-placed punches to the top of the case. That trick wouldn't work on an LCD.

Well, dismount the device and put a tft to the vga connector. Or if crafting and tinkering isn't yours get a PowerMac or Mac mini. Still CRTs are good for video. But personally I also prefer a *good* tft (one with IPS or PVA panel) over a CRT.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: Daff on February 11, 2011, 02:18:14 AM: kedawa : unfortunatly, MorphOS doesn't work on the 1GHz/USB version of the eMac.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: kedawa on February 11, 2011, 05:21:28 AM: That's strange. They're exactly the same machine except for the clock speed.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: jacadcaps on February 11, 2011, 10:18:47 AM: Quote from: kedawa;614695
Has anyone confirmed support for the 'education only' USB2.0 1GHz model?
It's the same as the 1.25GHz and 1.42GHz machines, just with a slower CPU and different BTO options.

I has not been confirmed, but I believe it's going to work - the hardware is the same as the 1.25GHz model indeed and the model id is PowerMac6,4 so there's nothing preventing MorphOS from running on the machine. If you can get access to one, please give it a try and let us all know.
Title: Re: MorphOS 2.7 actually supports eMac G4 1.42 GHz
Post by: jacadcaps on February 11, 2011, 10:20:08 AM: Quote from: Daff;614748
kedawa : unfortunatly, MorphOS doesn't work on the 1GHz/USB version of the eMac.

The 1.0GHz PowerMac4,4 != 1.0GHz educational PowerMac6,4. The first one won't work, the latter should work just fine.