@hooligan & itix:
I agree, there is much ground that needs to be covered, and yes, in part this is Apple's fault for being equally lame, and partially my fault because I like many other humans do not know everything.
You see the thing is that I have NEVER in my entire life encountered a "modern" computer that lacks audio input. Never once!
Naturally never having been exposed to such a thing, I could not anticipate it's existence, especially from a computer company that advertises itself as a computer company with imagination and innovation, a computer company for the artist, for the creative, and not for the suit and tie business guy. Especially from a company that ships audio recording software with it's computers!
On top of that I had just sent back another Mac Mini to an Ebay dealer because he had shipped me an Intel Mac by mistake. Now ironically the Intel Mac had an input jack (not to mention additional USB ports), so naturally I expected them to be on the G4 Mini as well.
Now back to MorphOS.
As I was stating before, one of MorphOS' present claims to fame is the fact that it has backwards compatibility with some classic Amiga software. The downside to this though is that while it seems to support it's fair share, it still has problems running those apps that were the most used within the community.
One example of this would be the legendary OctaMED Sound Studio. You can run this on Amithlon via Paula emulation, or through Maestrix emulation. You can also run this on OS 4 through Maestrix emulation, but no matter what methods you use to try to get it up and running on MorphOS, your system is going to lock up!
I have brought this up on a few occasions, but alas, no one seemed to care enough to look into it, and I can assure you, I am not the only person out there who wants to see this running. In fact I know a few people who are interested in MorphOS, but do not want to jump on board because their favorite program will not work, or in other cases is not fully supported.
Hd-rec seems to be one of these. We can launch the program and play around with it, but alas we have no access to the MIDI side of things (unless their is something I am missing) again leaving us out in the cold. Though for what ever reason, OS 4 can take full advantage of it! And they can use the MIDI side of OctaMED S.S. as well.
Case in point (it pains me to watch this again so I won't be joining you this time):
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Now, I would think, that perhaps the MorphOS team would want their users (even if they are the minority) to get the support they want, that is support that is within reason. I would think that they would perhaps look into this, maybe compare notes with Hyperion (assuming Hyperion plays friendly), and try to see what they can do to get their user's favorite software working. I mean, after all, we are paying customers, it's not like we are asking for a complete rewrite of the OS or anything to that effect. And assuming they took the time to work these things out, well they'd certainly have a few more users jump on board because after all, we never know when our precious real Amigas are going to bite the dust. In fact I am currently having a couple of mine re-capped.
Another point that I have brought up and will bring up again is there is software such as Digibooster 2 and the upcoming Digibooster 3 which from what I understand, has sampling capabilities. Now I understand that if I bought a huge ass eMac again that I could take advantage of that, or if I purchased a tower I could install a Sound Card and my problem would again be solved, but what of those people who do not have the physical space for such large computers, what of those who can not afford an additional computer to dedicate to each and every purpose. I mean after all I thought that the general road map was to attempt to create an Amiga compatible system that would suit one's every need, or at least most of them, the most basic ones.
The last I looked, USB, MIDI, Sound Sampling and so on are pretty basic needs. You don't have to have Windows or OS X to take advantage of those features, you can use an old Amiga, and Atari ST, a C64, Atari 8-bit, even DOS for most if not all of these needs, so this is not just something that has recently been added to OS' and hardware, and it certainly would not hurt for MorphOS to FULLY support they hardware that they began support for back in MorphOS version 2.7. I mean we are on 3.1 now after all. I took a few months off (because my eMac died) and recently came back only to find that some things had been improved, but those aspects that I looked forward to the most had not been touched at all, not a bit, despite all my posts in the forums.
We already have a good web browser and Fab is doing a terrific job to make it better. Our network stack seems perfectly fine to me, though I must say that wireless is LONG over due as I still can't even take this Mini on-line without plugging a cable into it.
As for flashed Radeon support...
OK, I guess I can see a need for that if you already owned a flashed card, otherwise, just buy one meant for your Mac. 3D is great and certainly improved, but...
I hardly think that gaming and entertainment should take priority over creativity and productivity.
Distracted, pretty girl started talking to me, will continue later.
