Purchased MorphOS 3.1 today. Finally did the deed!

[smerf]

Hi,

Been playing with a mini mac for about 3 months now, took morphos off because it just suxxed. Installed a useful OS called Ubuntu Linux. Works great and didn't have to pay a cent for it.

Morphos is like playing with cpm, it works but what can you do with it. Who is programming for it, and how many new programs come out for it each month. Would be more interesting if they had a network of programmers programming for it, or how about a rag mag that had programming listing in it  for morphos. Could be interesting.

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

There are good points about MorphOS, like it has the fastest bootup time of any OS I have seen, it also has a just about up to date internet browser which I like, but after that it was shear boredom. One thing I would recommend to MorphOS programmers is maybe an Amiga Basic language system so you could try programming. To tell you the truth I have Amiga Basic but didn't try it, anyone know if it works on MorphOS, couldn't really try becasue mine are all disks, so I didn't get to try any real Amiga programs, maybe that is why I gave it such a poor rating.

Ubuntu PPC works good on the mini mac, and at least it has a whole bunch of programs that you can download and try, but then again it is just a stupid mac, maybe I will take it fishing and use it for a fishing weight, it is so old and slow I don't see why I wasted $10 bucks on it.

smerf

[smerf]

Hi,

@Iggy,

Yep, picked it up for $10 at a yard sale, the girl said she wanted a newer bigger mac and got some kind of apple laptop, so I told her don't really know what to do with a mini mac but I would give her $10 just to see what it could do, so she sold it to me.

OK so now I broke down, and after throwing up a lot the first day, I finally got the nerve to download MorphOS and install it on the mini mac, it took me about 4 hours because I would insert the disk and then nothing. I put the another CD in my PC, burned 3 copies of MorphOS and still nothing wouldn't boot up at all. Then I tried like on my PC hold down a key to boot from a cd. That worked fine. Started MorphOS right up and installed it, but the mini mac I bought is flakey, when I installed Ubuntu PPC, it took me about serveral tries to get it to start up, used up three cd's, and held down a key to initialize cd boot up, but I guess I got a bad batch of cd's, anyhow the third cd burned correctly off of my PC and it installed Ubuntu. Now all I have to do is figure out what is wrong with which computer, is it my LG dvd burner, which worked alright all these years or is it the mini mac dvd player, after all it is an old unit, but it plays movies ok on ubuntu, they start right up with no problem, and the DVD's seem to be recognized whenever I insert a new CD or DVD. Anyhow just ordered a new 15khz to VGA card for the A1200, ordered some new 23 pin plugs to build the VGA card up when they arrive. Thought I had a problem with my Amiga 4000, after turn on. and 5 minutes the screen would go black, turn off the Amiga for 5 minutes and it would come back on and then go black again, well it turned out to be my old NEC multi sync monitor. I guess it is giving up the ghost.

Anyhow in order to support something in Amiga, why not develope a mag on MorphOS, or AROS, or both. You know back when Commodore first started out the C64 they brought out Ahoy! which had programming in both basic and C. Maybe if we could get Amiga Basic working on MorphOS we could start a rag, with MorphOS and Aros programs, you know bring back the fun in computing, and help support both systems.

Sandy will probably give us the cold shoulder and maybe some windy gusty days with temp drops, but my PC that uses about 800 watts of power, will keep me toasty and warm, and actually works better in the winter.

smerf