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Switching to MorphOS
« on: March 28, 2011, 12:14:49 AM »
Hi everyone!
In '90 I was using Amiga, then I switched to Windows, then to Mac OSX, then to Linux.
I'm going to try MorphOS as soon as I get some cheap G4 hardware.
I don't need wifi and I know that (some) HP printers are supported. But how about:

editing MS Office documents,
USB-MIDI devices support (in *tracker programs),
audio recording,
Flash videos in web browser,
writing to ntfs disks,
remote desktop (to login from MOS to Windows machine)

Thanks in advance for replies.
Recently I discovered  Aros and got excited but it's not stable yet and lacks drivers/software.
MorphOS on the other hand seems to be professional, mature and polished. Will you help me to make the switch?
 

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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2011, 12:48:09 AM »
Quote from: mt12345;625160
Hi everyone!
In '90 I was using Amiga, then I switched to Windows, then to Mac OSX, then to Linux.
I'm going to try MorphOS as soon as I get some cheap G4 hardware.
I don't need wifi and I know that (some) HP printers are supported. But how about:

editing MS Office documents,
USB-MIDI devices support (in *tracker programs),
audio recording,
Flash videos in web browser,
writing to ntfs disks,
remote desktop (to login from MOS to Windows machine)

Thanks in advance for replies.
Recently I discovered  Aros and got excited but it's not stable yet and lacks drivers/software.
MorphOS on the other hand seems to be professional, mature and polished. Will you help me to make the switch?

Editing MS Office documents? Unless this can be done via Goggle docs, I don't know of a way to do this under MorphOS.

As to tracker programs, here's a link to a few available on MorphZone (there are others) you'd have to research for yourself to find out what devices are supported, but USB under MorphOS works very well.
http://downloads.morphzone.org/categories/music/tracker
As to audio recording, multiple sources for that type of software.

Flash support under web browser? Unfortunately no, the current implementation of this (in OWB) doesn't work well. There is html5 support and if you can download the flash animation it will run in Mplayer

Writing to NTFS disks? Not yet. FAT disks are supported.

Remote desktop? Again, multiple solutions. Here's a few.
http://downloads.morphzone.org/categories/network/remote

Sorry I couldn't be more help. Some of the things you're looking for aren't there (yet), other parts of your list have multiple possible solutions.

If you can obtain a supported G4 Mac, try it. Even with some of the above mentioned compromises, its a pretty neat OS.
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #2 on: March 28, 2011, 01:05:12 AM »
About flash videos, the flash plugin is based on swfdec (like on linux if you know it). Which means it's compatible up to flash 8 and quite slow in general. It's still ok to watch a couple vids on some sites, but for something like youtube, a much better way is to use HTML5 mode, or use a small userscript that converts Flash to HTML5 on the fly for the youtube links not available in HTML5 mode yet.
 

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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2011, 01:27:37 AM »
Well I can live without flash. I think dual boot with linux ppc is reasonable option.
 

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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #4 on: March 28, 2011, 01:31:17 AM »
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Well I can live without flash. I think dual boot with linux ppc is reasonable option.


Linux PPC has no Flash either. Just Gnash and swfdec.
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #5 on: March 28, 2011, 01:37:22 AM »
I know. I used to run linux on ppc.  I meant OpenOffice and ntfs-3g
 

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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2011, 01:44:42 AM »
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2011, 01:53:51 AM »
That's why I need linux. And asfs would be useful too.
 

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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2011, 01:57:01 AM »
You might want to talk to Piru about the questions surrounding tracker software.
He's worked on one piece of tracker software and no  doubt has more experience with those packages then I do.

And I've learned to live w/o flash since adopting a G4 Powermac (it exists under OSX, but the performance isn't that great).
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2011, 02:01:36 AM »
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That's why I need linux. And asfs would be useful too.

Yes, that reference Nicholas posted mentions asfs (under Linux) as well as ntfs (for MorphOS).

An Office-like package would be nice, but no competent programmer has stepped up to create such a suite.
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #10 on: March 28, 2011, 02:11:43 AM »
Abiword for good start? I think I read somewhere about porting to aros.
 

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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #11 on: March 28, 2011, 02:28:18 AM »
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You might want to talk to Piru about the questions surrounding tracker software.
He's worked on one piece of tracker software and no  doubt has more experience with those packages then I do.

And I've learned to live w/o flash since adopting a G4 Powermac (it exists under OSX, but the performance isn't that great).


What tracker from piru?
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2011, 02:32:00 AM »
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What tracker from piru?


Pirutracker ftw! :)
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #13 on: March 28, 2011, 02:34:43 AM »
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What tracker from piru?


Not a full tracker package. Here's the description from he MorphZone downloads section.

"DBProHelper          
A set of tools allowing for installation and  running DigiBooster Pro 2.x music tracker  on MorphOS. Fixes most  dangerous bugs like direct hardware poking. Written by Harry "Piru"  Sintonen."

What, you didn't know Piru knew how to code? He is on the development team after all.
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2011, 02:42:22 AM »
OK i was thinking on a new tracker with asio, usb midi support... fantasies heh...
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