My review of Pegasos+MorphOS

[zacman]

>2> Can MorphOS have AmigaOS style right mouse
>button menus? (not only pop-up) Its in the system
>that choice or with an add-on utility (magic-menu
>maybe)?

MagicMenu functionality is built into the system. You
can change it in the system preferences.

[Triumph]

zacman wrote:

>MagicMenu functionality is built into the system. You
>can change it in the system preferences.

And it should be standaard. (in the Amiga, but it is very usefull and logical to use the menu this way and not have them on the top left Workbench)
Ambient doesn't have a Icon and Windows menu, like the Amiga.
You can get these by right clicking on a Icon or Window.
And then you notice that it is built on AOS31, you miss the features from OS3.9

[magnetic]

Nice review! Too bad I dont speak Hungarian
Please, please post an English one. I have a Pegasos coming and am salivating for it!
TIA
magnetic

[Hammer]

@takemehomegrandma

What you tried Quake 1 without a graphics card support (e.g. WinQuake or DOS Quake)?

Full boot time is 23 seconds? Including post? That's quite long if you ask me, how big is the MOS install?

I expected the boottime to be shorter, but then again, i have no idea what the hell it's doing under the hood

Amon_Re :-)

"But yesterday evening I saw there was a new boot iso with updates (dated 09 feb 2003) and I installed that (just a simple copying on the hd ) and presto! I have a lot more possibilites when I rightclick on an icon. So they seem busy enough updating the OS for me at this moment."

So if i get this correctly, the OS itself resides in an ISO file that's being loaded at boot from the HD into ram?

Simular to amithlon then?

Amon_Re

[Triumph]

Amon_Re wrote:

>So if i get this correctly, the OS itself resides in an ISO >file that's being loaded at boot from the HD into ram?

No you get a .tar file, unzip this and you get a ISO file which you brun to CD.
This is only for beta! In the future there will be another setup/install

>Simular to amithlon then?

No, Amithlon you have to install the linux kernal boot and then Install AOS, But yoou can use the small bootoption

Amon_Re

Spidey wrote:

1. HereticII demo
This I tried yesterday with a 1024x768 screen.
It was a bit slow but everything worked fine.

2. Quake I
This one goes too quick on a 1024x768 screen and on a 1280x1024 screen the speed is about the same as with the HereticII demo.

3. Quake II
This is a bit slower than Quake I.

Nice to see they included some games, but are Quake & Quake II full versions or demo's?

Also nice to see that they've gotten a Hyperion game demo in that pack

Amon_Re

Well, with amithlon too you don't need to install anything, just stick in the CD & boot from it.

But having to burn an iso to CD & boot from that is abit silly if you ask me, can you transer it to the HD & boot from there?

Amon_Re

[takemehomegrandma]

Full boot time is 23 seconds?

More like 2-3 seconds I would say.

[takemehomegrandma]

So if i get this correctly, the OS itself resides in an ISO file

Hehe, no, you use ISO files to burn CD's! It will not be possible to boot directly from the ISO CD images I'm afraid. You have to burn the OS to a CD first!

(Edit: I later learned that you actually CAN mount ISO images from *within* MorphOS :-))

[Piru]

Also nice to see that they've gotten a Hyperion game demo in that pack

Quake2 is not a Hyperion game, it's id Sotware's. MorphOS quake2 has nothing to do with Hyperion.
 

But having to burn an iso to CD & boot from that is abit silly if you ask me, can you transer it to the HD & boot from there?

Of course you transfer the files to the HD! That's part of the installation process. You only need to boot from the CD once when installing or upgrading.

Also, you can mount the iso image directly from within MorphOS and copy the files from there. However, having a bootable installation CD around is a good idea, in case you need to do emergency repairs.

MorphOS works like any other operating system here. You don't need to use some weird boot-wedge cd at each boot, or anything silly like that.

[takemehomegrandma]

 

[takemehomegrandma]

Also, you can mount the iso image directly from within MorphOS and copy the files from there. However, having a bootable installation CD around is a good idea, in case you need to do emergency repairs.

Aha! That was new to me! :-o
Well then I guess I have learnt something today too! :-)

Thanks!  :-D

[Bodie]

@takemehomegrandma

Thanks for the link.  Although I'm going for the A1/OS4 option, I do really like those Ambient (? is that the word) screenshots.  Very nice indeed, Warface and other Peg owners enjoy  :-) .

[Spidey]

Hello Amon_Re,

"Full boot time is 23 seconds?"

Well actually it's 25 seconds.
I clocked it a few times afterwards and it was everytime 25 seconds.

But do you find a full bootup of 25 seconds long?
I clocked the time from exact the moment I pushed the power button until harddisk activity was over and I was able to play around on the Ambient screen.

I have to say I've got 512 MB of (registered, ofcourse :-)) Ram and this takes a lot of time of the initial startup.
The whole "post" startup takes about 23 seconds, the software startup is about 2 seconds.

I checked these figures with friends of mine (they own pc's). The fastest one is a friend with WindowsXP. His total booting time is 35 seconds.

Could you give examples of computer systems that have quicker startup times? (ofcourse games consoles don't count :-D).
I honestly don't know of a system that can startup quicker than what I have at home (with my hardware configuration) and that it is available for the consumer market.

Thanks in advance,

Spidey