Public Release of MorphOS 2.5 & Introduction of eMac Support

[quenthal]

This is just excellent news!

Just wondering why only the 1.25GHz eMacs are supported?

I think is was written somewhere that out of eMacs, only 1.25 were tested. That doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't work with faster eMacs.

Not a long ago I got my hands on G4 MacMini, so now is the right time for me to do try MorphOS 2.5 out! :-)

[Karlos]

@takemehomegrandma
Seems like you have a hard time understanding what I'm typing, since you keep using my own arguments against me. And as always you're pulling in OS4 - what is it with you and OS4?

It's also quite a nonsensical point to raise in a thread specifically regarding the availability MOS on Mac hardware.

I guess there are still people in the community (and this goes four ways - classic, OS4, MOS and AROS) that see their OS only in terms how it's better than a competing one, rather than actually appreciating what is truly good about it.

[haywirepc]

This is good news. Is there a list somewhere of supported emac and g4 models? I don't want to buy one on ebay that is not sure to work.
 
Steven

[buzz]

Just to add I am with kolla on the licence issue. I have a mac mini sat doing nothing for 1 year now, which I might have put morphos on it, if it was sold in a different way, and perhaps even done some development for it. I do think the price is still a little high aswell though. Not that a lot of work hasn't gone into it, but it wouldn't be my main os, but rather a hobby - and so I don't know if I could justify it, but I dont even consider it anyway due to the licence.. I also think morphos could do more to intice developers onto the platform.

These days I do most stuff on linux. I like the open nature of the environment and apps, that I can submit back fixes, improvements. For example I was able to submit a small patch for the kernel so a network card was setup correctly. I think going back to a closed Amiga platform would be hard now.

[Pyromania]

Thanx MorphOS Team for adding a fix in MorphOS 2.5 so Aladdin 4D installs with no problems with the installer. In earlier versions of MorphOS Aladdin 4D would have to be installed manually. It is much appreciated.

[redfox]

Congratulations to the MorphOS development team.

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redfox

[Matt_H]

This is good news. Is there a list somewhere of supported emac and g4 models? I don't want to buy one on ebay that is not sure to work.
 
Steven

Check here.

[Derfs]

This is good news. Is there a list somewhere of supported emac and g4 models? I don't want to buy one on ebay that is not sure to work.
 
Steven

all eMac's are G4's, but the first ones had nvidia gfx cards which wont work, and came with 128mb ram.

the eMac (USB 2.0) version is the 1.25GHz model which works with morphos, with a radeon 9200 gfx card. 1.42GHz gets you a radeon 9600 gfx card, but as the readme says "(1.42 GHz eMac models have not been tested)"

[recidivist]

I  agree the price even at 111.11 euros seems a bit high for  a hobby OS ; but the developers need at least beer, bread  and sausages.MorphOS is a bit smaller group of coders than Linux.I will probably be squeezing that sum out of my meager finances,as it is much better than 150 (and the exchange rate change helps ,too.)That way I can have an Amiga-like experience on G4 hardware.

The MorphOS license locking the OS to  a particular MAC address(motherboard) is  really not much different legally than Microsoft's OEM licensing which states the OEM  Windows is for that machine(motherboard)  only and if that machine breaks you must either repair(replace) the motherboard with another of the same OEM model ,  or BUY a new copy of Windows for different model motherboard.

Now I think the old  OEM Windows CD were each set up to check for a particular BIOS rather than the MAC address.

 Here is an idea for the MorphOS team : make a deal with Efika/Directron to bundle MorphOS at a special rate.There evidently are still a number of efika 5200 in the warehouse and 400MHz is faster than any classic Amiga ,by far.

 I would like to see the AOS4/MorphOS/AROS/Classic/Amithlon/Natami/AF(UAE)/MiniMig(FPGA) groups share ideas and everyone just enjoy heading in the general direction of a better Amiga experience.

[buzz]

Perhaps I was over negative in my previous post. I stand my what I said, but I would be really interesting in hacking around a bit in morphos. porting a few things, and doing a bit of code, but like many amiga things, its a closed network, and I can only be a user.

I also noticed that they have ported GISH to morphos now. im sure that and many of other other games recently released under the "humble indie bundle" will now be ported. A great initiative that was and I paid a good contribution having already owned a game. It's nice now that morphos and OS4 can benefit from our support. I hope they also contributed! If only the Amiga World could embrace similar ideas..

[LoadWB]

Slashdotted

Slashdot Apple Story | MorphOS 2.5 Released, Supports More Old Macs
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/05/203227/MorphOS-25-Released-Supports-More-Old-Macs?art_pos=6&art_pos=6

[kolla]

Slashdotted

You wish.

[LoadWB]

You wish.

Huh?

[Matt_H]

Slashdotted

Slashdot Apple Story | MorphOS 2.5 Released, Supports More Old Macs
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/05/203227/MorphOS-25-Released-Supports-More-Old-Macs?art_pos=6&art_pos=6

Yikes, not getting much love from the Slashdot crowd. Linux tunnel-vision has made up their minds for them.

[buzz]

Or common sense?

[Karlos]

It's not a reaction from slashdot that surprises me.

Let's be realistic here. Other than appeal to our particular peculiarities and run our ageing software catalogue, is there anything practical that AmigaOS and it's various offshoots do  that linux can't ?