My review of Pegasos+MorphOS

[KennyR]

For balance, let me mention some negative points of MOS at its current (unfinished) phase:

- No TCP/IP stack included. Getting software onto your Pegasos is a nightmare, unless you have an Amiga with a CD burner available. Also, using MiamiDX is problematic.

- Theres no support for the floppy drive at all.

- No 3D drivers yet. You can play those 3D games - but only in software mode.

- Ambient (WB replacement) is "years behind workbench".

- MOS is still not 100% stable. Stable enough for limited use (IRC, etc), but not nearly as stable as 68k AmigaOS.

If you think this is FUD, it's not. Consider it a little pressure on the MOS coders to get things right, for some friends. I'm sure they'll get it right soon, but they haven't yet.

[KennyR]

Thank you for pointing out the negative side!

You're welcome. ;-)

I tried Genesis and it will not run, because it can't find/open the resource.library. I put this lib everywhere, but still the same error-message.

OS3.9 on MOS needs some special setup to work (so I hear). resource.library is just a kind of "security feature" to stop anyone using OS3.9 system tools on lower OS versions. After the fix all OS3.9 software and ReAction will work with MOS. Go to #morphos on irc.vapor.net (or irc.vapor.com?) and they'll be pleased to help.

The icon format is PNG, probably that's the problem.  

This I didn't know! Urgh! Wrong tool for the wrong job IMHO.

[KennyR]

One thing you and others here might not know is that latest MOS version is from sunday (9th Feb 2003)

I did know. I have spies everywhere. I even know about non-official releases. :-D

Otoh, Q2 works faster on Pegasos using software render than on old wos-PPC Amigas with HW support.

Yes, I know that too. I played a friend on Q2 with me on an Amiga and me on a Pegasos. He kicked my ass even when I was the server - my 18 FPS just made me fragbait. ;-) Not only that, but each level on Q2 took him mere moments to load from the pak, and me up to 40 seconds from unpacked files.

There's no doubting the Pegasos's power, that's for sure. But I'm sure everyone's dying to see what Q2 and H2 look like on a Radeon. :-)

Ambient...yes, reinventing the wheel. If Genesi have all the money to spend they say they have, why not cut a deal with GPSoft for the Dopus5.8 source? Its WB-emulation mode would cut years off of Ambient's development.

[KennyR]

I always wondered why there is no Cooperation with the Scalos Team.
I like Dopus but others dont. Scalos is a lot closer to Workbench

Good point. Scalos uses MUI so it would be more suitable for MOS than DOpus, which would have to be rewritten not to use its custom BOOPSI stuff. It would also be a hell of a lot cheaper. :-)

[KennyR]

Stop smiling at me and buy a damn pegasos so you can come back to #AmigaZeux, iti! ;-)