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Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« on: May 27, 2013, 10:24:37 PM »
MorphOS 3.2 is out. And the update is simply massive!
Support for G5s, more Powerbooks, g4 ibooks and R300 3D-support are highlights at the hardware side, a new netstack (much faster!) and many, many more improvements, additions are part of this free update.

Read the release notes: http://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes/3.2

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Re: Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2013, 11:03:38 PM »
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MorphOS 3.2 is out. And the update is simply massive!
Support for G5s, more Powerbooks, g4 ibooks and R300 3D-support are highlights at the hardware side, a new netstack (much faster!) and many, many more improvements, additions are part of this free update.

Read the release notes: http://www.morphos-team.net/releasenotes/3.2


IMPORTANT:

The current iso file has a corrupted boot.img that fails on Mac computers. Don't burn the iso unless you want to install to Pegasos or Efika. Wait for a fixed iso (should be released very soon) for Mac computers..

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Re: Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2013, 11:47:32 PM »
nicholas:

No without the 3.2 boot.img (i.e. with teh 3.1 boot.img) MorphOS 3.2 will not work properly. Wait for the fix.

I guess the boot.img is just wrongly zipped or something like that, hence I expect the fixed iso really soon (tonight or tomorrow).

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Re: Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2013, 12:05:51 AM »
Command back - I was messing with the wrong boot.img.
_Update_ process on macs is easy:
Copy boot.img from the CD's drawer Mac_ppc32 to your boot: partition (mount it if necessay) by hand, then boot from teh CD and proceed with teh installation. That way worked fine for me, but be careful when messing with teh boot: partition, you can render your system easily to non booting.

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Re: Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2013, 12:29:31 AM »
UPDATE:

A fixed iso is now available on all official MorphOS sites!

Rock on

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Re: Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2013, 10:25:44 PM »
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I have an iBook G3 and a Titanium G4.  What's the MorphOS support position for these?  I'd been holding on to the G4 for a future MorphOS release, and I'm thinking I just need to jettison the G3.


I think there's rather litle hope for support of these older computers. The cost/benefit ratio supportimg these is probably not a good one. ibooks G4 and Al-Powerbooks are plentiful and cheaply available.
Some Ti-Powerbooks have still atrractive enough specs though.

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Re: Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2013, 11:04:14 PM »
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If I were them, I would stop supporting new hardware immediately.


My point as well. Polishing MorphOS further and prepare the huge step (i.e. ISA switch) should be #1 now.

PS: your sig seems to be outdated - I guess 3D on your sytems should run now.

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Re: Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2013, 05:07:56 PM »
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Well, I would prefer an good-priced board  that's not a deadend and cheap to replace, like the Raspberry Pi. What we have now, overpriced deadend hardware (OS4) or legacy Apple crapware (MOS) is not desirable at all.
I wouldn't touch an OS4 board with a 10mts pole, if you're talking about that.

But it's Amiga we're talking about. Rational decisions that are good for both final users and developers aren't very common in Amiga-land.

 It has the best user community I have ever seen, tough :)


The raspberry pi is underwhelming weak. It's appeal is the low price while able to replay full hd. A driver for the gfx accelerator for MorphOS would be rather unrealistic to expect. What would remain is a weak small board with few connectors.
A mac mini is not much more expensive (if you count in PSU, case, MSD), but way more powerful.
Next target: x64!

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Re: Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2013, 06:34:06 PM »
maybe easier, but to be future proof you should make most new things in the one jump that introduces incompabilities. Hence, x64 directly.

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Re: Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2013, 10:10:08 PM »
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The problem is that, any strategy/action might seem pointless if no one envisioned the objective.
What's exactly the "objective" for MorphOS?


AFAIU: Making a good Amigaish OS and having fun.
World domination probably was #3 on that list.

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Re: Public release of MorphOS 3.2
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2016, 11:54:05 PM »
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When MOS is running flawlessly, perfectly on AMorph 500. They might start to consider an AMorph 1200 (maybe the Powerbook 1.67 High-Res)...

Let people with old 1.25 minis or Powerbook 1.5 complain. It will be better to get another machine, than to have an incomplete operating system.
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The Mac mini 1.5Ghz (and the 1.42, 1.33 and 1.25GHz versions) is brilliantly supported and everything works. Except Bluetooth - and that is due to license issues (really prohibitive cost). There's really not much more to expect from hardware support side for these models (FW stack is 3rd party though).

But I agree that not too much work should be spend to support every exotic model that probably brings close to no new users. Focus should be to do the necessary ISA switch ASAP.

Btw.: Registration fee got reduced for many systems. For most systems it's 79 EUR. IMHO a rather a fair ammount.