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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« on: November 02, 2012, 09:17:32 AM »
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Now if only they'd suppport TiBooks...

ibook support as well as support for more Powerbooks is under way, since the ADB is no more a prob for the MorphOS Team.

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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2012, 09:29:33 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.)

There's an ATI Rage driver for MorphOS included in current release already, albeit for the 128Pro and 2D only (yet).

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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2012, 09:52:30 PM »
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Hmm. It really would be sweet to be able to put that Lombard to use...


400MHz G3 is probably not lightspeedy, but quite okay for many things (beside my two G4s I also own a Peg1 G3/600 and Efika, hence I can estimate the probable speed), a nice thing to play with _if_ it will be supported eventually. I read the Lombard is said to handle up to 512MB RAM, that's sufficient for quite some stuff.

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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2012, 12:49:45 AM »
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OWB on Pegasos 2 g3@600 is even worse and forget about youtube it's like watching a slide show.


Not if you're using a non embedded video replay mode (i.e. overlay full screen playback) - then youtube is fine even on the Peg1 and nearly fine on Efika (the low Ram spoils it more severely there).
Anyway, rich web content requires some cpu power of course. And while I know that the lower spec computers can be pretty useful with MorphOS, I prefer my beefier machines by far.