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Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« on: November 01, 2012, 04:25:03 PM »
Oh boy.
This is something we've been waiting for:

http://www.morphzone.org/news/1978.html

Hey, takemehomegrandma, that's not even one of the things I can't tell you about.
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2012, 08:07:25 PM »
AmigaDave sold me a 2.5 GHz G5 Power mac awhile ago, so naturally I'm psyched.

BTW - As a teaser, there may be additional announcements made in the future (near/far I have no idea).
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2012, 08:10:36 PM »
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Who are 'they'? ;)

Any way how it can be dead as I can actually power my PPC on and it seems to be working fine :P

Their so dead that I keep buying them, trading them, using them.
I've got a second 1.33GHz Xserve processor waiting for me at home (when I get home from work).
And over the weekend I converted three PC video cards for use in Macs under MorphOS for friends.
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2012, 10:46:07 PM »
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We'll have to see on that one. 2.5GHz vs. 1.8GHz is a fair difference, but the x1000 does have a DDR2-1067 FSB as opposed to the G5's DDR400.

I don't think memory bandwidth is going to be enough to give the X1000 an edge.
Currently, when compared to Power mac G4s with 1.8 to 2.0 GHz processors the PA6T does not outperform Freescales older CPUs.
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2012, 10:48:41 PM »
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I don't understand the importance of bench marks between next gen Amiga OS's at this point when there are no killer apps available that depend upon machines with such high resources.

Well X, now I will be able to play back 1080p video. Before I was limited to 720p.
And there's always a use for more power.
What we'll need next are better video cards.
But then, we should have R300 3D drivers soon, and we may even get support for more powerful cards then that.
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2012, 12:21:38 AM »
I'd quote what you said Steven, but since I agree with you 100% its kind of pointless.
I do think  this will help with MorphOS registrations.
Laptops and now power towers.

I don't know that this will hurt A-eon, as they sell new/powerful equipment.
In fact, if they sold an system similar to the X1000 for MorphOS, I'd still consider spending the extra money.
But, why would you buy an Acube board now?
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2012, 02:26:13 PM »
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Doesn't it do that already on dual-CPU PowerMac G4's?

I'm not sure about that. The interior of my 1.42 FW800 is getting pretty warm.
Since I'm using an R300 based video card (yet another heat generator), I'm planning on switching a single over clocked 1.25 CPU.

And I'm going to see if a G5 will run with only one CPU installed.
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2012, 04:27:24 PM »
OK, so removing one CPU is out. Let's hope Bigfoot throttles the unused CPU down.
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2012, 05:28:54 PM »
New, old, who cares?
Has anyone seen the re-sale value of an old Hemi Charger?
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2012, 06:34:12 PM »
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I seem to recall from one of the FAQs that they won't support G3s at all.

Only in Pegasos I and II computers.
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #10 on: November 02, 2012, 07:04:43 PM »
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Well, yeah, but I thought that had to do with the ADB issue, and that's apparently solved now. (Though I dunno, was ATI as free with documentation on the Rage series chipsets as it was with Radeons? That might be an issue.)
 
Anyway, it'd just be nice - the Lombard is too slow to run OSX pleasantly, but it should handle an Amiga-derived OS perfectly fine, I'd think...

As long as there are functional Linux drivers, ATI's unwillingness to divulge isn't that important. But from what I've heard, no, they're not very forthcoming with complete documentation.
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2012, 12:29:07 AM »
The 3000 euros bounty may take awhile to collect, but AmigaDave has just informed me that he has purchased a G5 Power mac for Mark and that it is on its way to Davids home in California.
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2012, 10:43:47 AM »
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Some G3s are Old World (the Beige Power Mac G3 and G3 All-In-One and pre-Lombard PowerBooks,) but most are Open Firmware. As far as I know, all the New World G3s use ATI Rage-series graphics (except the Blue & White Power Macs, which support a variety of PCI video cards.)

It is true that some MorphOS hardware can be had for a fairly modest price, but 100EUR is still a far cry from what you can get G3 hardware for - I got the Lombard for $10, and again, I could go on eBay and purchase a 400/500MHz Pismo, buy a MorphOS license for it, and total about what a lot of PowerBook G4s go for. I just think it would help lower the barrier-to-entry even further.

I don't know, John.
I purchased my first MorphOS system, a Power mac Quicksilver for $19.95.
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2012, 07:27:13 PM »
Well, since Fraggle announced he would match 1500 euros when that was reached, it looks like the bounty is complete.

Hows that for quick?
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