MorphOS 3.0 released - PowerBook G4 support and new pricing

[commodorejohn]

"The missing ADB keyboard/pad driver is not a real issue anymore, it's basically ready. We actually might consider Ibook support in a future update. It pretty much depends on the success/acceptance of the PowerBook option. The forthcoming update will definitely focus on fixing bugs that went unnoticed while doing our internal testing, though. So expanding hardware support is something that is considered after that ..."
http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8042&forum=11&start=98

Huh, well, even the possibility is more than I was expecting, so that's good to hear.

Don't know what (if indeed anything) this could mean for your old Ti PowerBook though (guess they are a bit down on the priority list due to age and performance?)

I'd think it depends on the model. Mine's a 1GHz 7450 with a Radeon Mobility 9000, it's hardly worse than the early aluminum models (slower RAM, though.) And it certainly performs adequately enough...

[takemehomegrandma]

??

that's sort of underwhelming.

Am I missing something? My A1200 has wireless internet.

Heh, I've seen a C64 with "wireless" (yep, there was/is a Ethernet card for the C64, in which someone had put one of these "ethernet to wifi" adapters), but that kind of gadgets (as the A1200 wireless) is not really what people mean when talking about WiFi stacks/support in an OS...

[eliyahu]

Heh, I've seen a C64 with "wireless" (yep, there was/is a Ethernet card for the C64, in which someone had put one of these "ethernet to wifi" adapters), but that kind of gadgets (as the A1200 wireless) is not really what people mean when talking about WiFi stacks/support in an OS...

although this won't be of any interest to powerbook users, do you know if MOS 3.0 works with neil's prism2.device? i know there are versions for OS3, OS4, and AROS.  usually if something works with OS3, it also works with MOS, but i haven't seen it mentioned.

if i got a power macintosh which supported MOS 3.0, could i take the prism2 wireless PCI card from my SAM and use it there with MOS?

-- eliyahu

[runequester]

Heh, I've seen a C64 with "wireless" (yep, there was/is a Ethernet card for the C64, in which someone had put one of these "ethernet to wifi" adapters), but that kind of gadgets (as the A1200 wireless) is not really what people mean when talking about WiFi stacks/support in an OS...

Maybe, but I am not really that keen on pulling a 20 foot ethernet cable from upstairs to the couch downstairs which is the laptop territory.

It's 2012 guys.

[Terminills]

Maybe, but I am not really that keen on pulling a 20 foot ethernet cable from upstairs to the couch downstairs which is the laptop territory.

It's 2012 guys.

wireless works great on my AROS laptop

[Yahoo (bot)]

Just no Wi-Fi.

And Bluetooth, not that anyone cares about that.

[Duce]

Is there an ETA on when support for the built in wifi will be added?  A laptop without support for the built in wifi is a paperweight to me.

[matt3k]

3.0 on the Powerbook with an SSD is just plain sickening at how fast it boots and runs.

OSX loaded in 1.5 minutes and lag with anything.  HD video was barely playable with the best altivec optimized player.  OSX was a major disappointment from a performance perspective.  

MOS 3 boots in 5 seconds, plays all hd vids I have throw at it, and it almost instantaneous for any operation.  Shazam, nice job MOS Team.

I have a gigabtye lan and like the wire to move data across my network.

Cheers!

[zylesea]

Is there an ETA on when support for the built in wifi will be added?  A laptop without support for the built in wifi is a paperweight to me.

No ETA but note that the driver itself is ready (it's based on the AROS one), but the configuration tool was not done yet.
If lucky the MorphOS team decides to provide the pure driver (i.e. w/o config tool) as is and w/o warranty for the brave (or stupid) to try out (until it will be integrated inside the OS with 3.1).

[Yahoo (bot)]

No ETA but note that the driver itself is ready (it's based on the AROS one), but the configuration tool was not done yet.
If lucky the MorphOS team decides to provide the pure driver (i.e. w/o config tool) as is and w/o warranty for the brave (or stupid) to try out (until it will be integrated inside the OS with 3.1).

AFAIK That's the driver for an pcmcia based Atheros chipset, not the onboard 'AirPort Extreme' wifi.

[zylesea]

AFAIK That's the driver for an pcmcia based Atheros chipset, not the onboard 'AirPort Extreme' wifi.

You're right. For the inbuild Airport I am not aware of any announcement.

[Duce]

Cheers, thanks for the replies.  Guess I'll save my money on this one, I've got no interest in having to cram a PCMCIA card into a machine that already has wifi.

[EvilGuy]

The news has even made Slashdot .. coverage is coverage I suppose and its reasonably accurate.

[LoadWB]

Is the wireless in the MacMini supported?

[takemehomegrandma]

Is the wireless in the MacMini supported?

No wireless whatsoever in the OS, no matter type of computer. As said before, there are some ways around this, but AFAIK currently the OS doesn't incorporate neigher the device drivers for the WiFi cards/chips, nor the technology/applications to make use of them in the way people would expect to use them.

[Matt_H]

The news has even made Slashdot .. coverage is coverage I suppose and its reasonably accurate.

And the comments are the typical jaded Linux fanboi crap that we see so often at Slashdot. This was the only sensible rebuttal I could find.