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Offline mbrantley

Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #14 on: June 23, 2010, 03:41:53 AM »
XDelusion,

Almost forgot to say... Congratulations on your eMac. I just found out these little babies will unofficially support 2GB of memory, so I'm after a couple of 1GM modules to try.
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #15 on: June 23, 2010, 03:42:38 AM »
XDelusion,

Almost forgot to say... Congratulations on your eMac. I just found out these little babies will unofficially support 2GB of memory, so I'm after a couple of 1GM modules to try.
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #16 on: June 23, 2010, 03:49:48 AM »
Alright, I had to take my Gaming Mouse off my PC and use it with the Mac, er um Amiga. Now all is well! In fact the gaming mouse feels more at home with MorphOS than it did on my PC, strange.

I will not begin to build my software library, and install them within 30 minute increments. :)

I hope that MorphOS sale lasts till this week's end at least!

Will write more as I go through things.

Once again, this is VERY exciting, it's like the Amiga I waited 15 or so years for, but all for less than $100, minus the registration for MorphOS itself. And on that note, I must state once again that it was VERY wise for the MorphOS team to seek support for inexpensive hardware, seeing as the OS is not cheap, this was a VERY practical move and I think one that will result in more sales down the road.
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #17 on: June 23, 2010, 03:57:48 AM »
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 And on that note, I must state once again that it was VERY wise for the MorphOS team to seek support for inexpensive hardware, seeing as the OS is not cheap, this was a VERY practical move and I think one that will result in more sales down the road.

I have to agree. I thought my days using an Amiga related platform was done, over. I immersed myself into C= 8bit and wasn't looking back..... Until I heard it was running on eMac I could pick up for almost nothing, which I did. $40 later and I am playing around with the demo version of MorphOS 2.5. It may be a little bit before I can afford to register it, but I will. 2010 will be a thin year financially for many in the USA including me, as I'm sure many others in the EU and elsewhere can relate to.
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #18 on: June 23, 2010, 04:00:19 AM »
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Once again, this is VERY exciting, it's like the Amiga I waited 15 or so years for, but all for less than $100, minus the registration for MorphOS itself. And on that note, I must state once again that it was VERY wise for the MorphOS team to seek support for inexpensive hardware, seeing as the OS is not cheap, this was a VERY practical move and I think one that will result in more sales down the road.


Agreed 100% Can't wait to get mine. It was shipped today but only with 256MB and a 40GB. I have an 80GB I can use but for the mem I will have to do some hunting.
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #19 on: June 23, 2010, 04:11:17 AM »
In regards to the 2Gb or RAM, will MorphOS support that?
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #20 on: June 23, 2010, 04:52:02 AM »
When looking for mem, two 1 gig sticks (pc2700) is the ticket.

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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #21 on: June 23, 2010, 04:54:40 AM »
Replacing the hard drive and cd drive on these emacs is a little tricky.
Several things to watch for... like high voltages. BE CAREful.

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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #22 on: June 23, 2010, 05:05:11 AM »
So I've heard! Life or Death!

Yes folks, that's the price we are willing to pay to have a new, low cost, Amiga. :)

 So I'd like to set up the Emulation for classic Amiga so that when I double click on a classic App or Game, it will load. Also, is it possible to configure this to handle ADF files, I.E. read, or Launch them?
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #23 on: June 23, 2010, 06:37:07 AM »
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So I'd like to set up the Emulation for classic Amiga so that when I double click on a classic App or Game, it will load. Also, is it possible to configure this to handle ADF files, I.E. read, or Launch them?


Yes, play around with the Ambient Mime prefs and you can do whatever you wish. You can even config rmb context menu to have different UAE/handling settings for ADFs etc...
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #24 on: June 23, 2010, 07:22:18 AM »
WOW! Thankx and...

...way over my head at this point.

Anyone care to walk me through how to configure this to execute an Amiga 680x0 app/game through a simple double click?
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2010, 07:40:54 AM »
Just doubleclick any 68k exe and it will start :) That doesn't need any configurating. If executed program is system friendly it is likely to work. If it needs any libraries etc, put them in SYS:Libs like on real Amiga, but for MUI classes, use SYS:Classes/MUI... it's bit different location than on old systems.

But if executed program needs custom chips, then you have to use UAE. Fab's UAE port has examples how to integrate it into Ambient.
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #26 on: June 23, 2010, 07:53:12 AM »
Where is the web page for Fab's UAE? I'm looking to set up WHDLoad on this system...

...assuming that is possible.
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #27 on: June 23, 2010, 08:22:32 AM »
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In regards to the 2Gb or RAM, will MorphOS support that?
Out of that 2GB maximum 1.5GB will be available for MorphOS.
« Last Edit: June 23, 2010, 08:26:31 AM by Piru »
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #28 on: June 23, 2010, 08:31:07 AM »
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Where is the web page for Fab's UAE? I'm looking to set up WHDLoad on this system...

...assuming that is possible.


Fab's E-UAE is here:
http://morphos-files.net/find.php?find=e-uae

Download and unarchive, then look into E-UAE_0.8.29-WIP4/Bonus/readme.morphos for how to configure it to play ball with Ambient.

Here's a post about troubleshooting the installation:
http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=6888&forum=9
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Re: Installed MorphOS on my eMac, Now What?
« Reply #29 from previous page: June 23, 2010, 08:56:15 AM »
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Thanks, Crumb. I'm still getting used to my SamFlex on one desk and my Craigslist eMac with newly registered MOS on the other, and I am very glad to learn about CRABUM and the ToolsDaemon functionality. I've always used ToosDaemon on my Amigas and never cared for docks, program launchers or whatever on the Workbench.

I'm configuring my menus now and will work on making my drawer icons not look like folders next. Talk about mixed-up interface metaphors -- the menu still says "new drawer" after all! To really feel at home I'd need draggable screens, but otherwise I'm pretty pleased with MOS on the eMac.


Take a look also at Meridian from Geit to use gestures to switch screens: http://www.geit.de/eng_meridian.html
For screendragging there's a trick you can try out for fun called dragon: http://amigazeux.net/dragon/feat.php   It's obviously not the same as screendragging but it's funny to try it out once.

You can try out "scube" from Kiero, it's another cool trick http://kiero.binaryriot.org/

BTW, there's a "MorphOS Upgrate Pack" done by Papiosaur that contains several apps and saves some time to new users, he'll soon release version 1.60 for MorphOS2.5: http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7134&forum=3
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