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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« on: November 01, 2012, 04:59:32 PM »
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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2012, 07:47:06 PM »
yeah, I'd be a bit concerned about a liquid cooled machine from 7 years ago, I guess

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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2012, 06:18:50 PM »
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Well, yay.

(I suppose it's too much to hope for that the PowerBook G3 Lombard I nabbed at the recycle center yesterday would be supported?)


I seem to recall from one of the FAQs that they won't support G3s at all.
 

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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2012, 11:54:40 PM »
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Exactly. As I said, even the 400/500MHz Pismo G3 is only just sufficient to run OSX 10.4 and barely handles TenFourFox, but by Amiga standards that's downright luxurious. Add in the fact that these go for a good deal cheaper than the G4s, and I think they'd be perfectly decent MorphOS machines...


it's somewhere on their website, but basically, it'd make bad impressions of the OS, if people ran it on less than a G4.
 

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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2012, 06:41:49 AM »
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That it would. Granted, a G3 system running classic apps exclusively would be a wonderful ride with MorphOS, heck many MorphOS native apps would still run well, but once you got into web browsing, higher end games and this and that, it would certainly leave a bad taste in one's mouth, at least in this day and age.

 Personally, I think I'd rather go with an Efika with a nice Graphics card with plenty of RAM on it, before I went as low as something like an iMac. My eMac was a nightmare within itself!


Wasnt there issues with the built-in monitor for the emac not being that great? And thats before factoring in a 10 year old CRT lifespan..
 

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Re: Bounty for MorphOS port on PowerMac G5
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2012, 06:42:34 AM »
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