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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, 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 #2 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 #3 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 #4 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 #5 on: March 28, 2011, 01:37:44 PM »
Quote from: Krashan;625269
You do not need ASIO on MorphOS. And for USB midi support, a tracker using it is in the work.



New tracker?
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #6 on: March 28, 2011, 03:31:53 PM »
Did anyone try to port Protrekkr? It has some DSP FX, something that's missing in DB?
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #7 on: March 28, 2011, 10:31:24 PM »
Well done ! :)

I remember I tried Office online 2 years ago in some internet-cafe as I had to quickly edit and print my CV. Let me try it again.
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2011, 07:43:36 PM »
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Well, for your service (:)), I have just tried out the online version of Microsoft Office under MorphOS (OWB spoofing as Chrome).

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Can't login in to my Windows Live account, ha ha ha. Probably they suspended/deleted my account due to not using for long time. Nevermind.
What else would I need in MOS? GIMP! I'm sure there is some decent equivalent. Any suggestions?
And what about OWB? I noticed Facebook bookmark on your pictures. Does facebook chat work? Uploading pictures in ebay?
How OWB works, generally, what is missing, if compared to Firefox or Chromium?
Oh, how about porting Chromium to MorphOS? Do I demand too much?
My AROS installation is  unfortunately offline, so I can't test OWB.
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2011, 11:37:33 PM »
GIMP-like program for MOS?
What is partition size and file size limit? (SFS)
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2011, 01:34:57 AM »
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I don't think there's anything native that's quite as powerful as GIMP, although there are graphics manipulation programs available.


Actually I dont need all the features GIMP offers. Just basic image manipulations.

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GIMP port may be possible, but hasn't been done yet (why don't you do it)


I wish I could. In 2004 I got Powemac G3/233 and managed to install  OSX 10.3 but it was so sluggish so I tried linux on it. Then I got frustrated because some packages were not ported to PPC linux so I learnt  how to compile. But I was getting endless errors so I got even more frustrated and eventually I gave up. I bought Pentium4 PC to run linux and forget about compiling. But recently I was thinking about porting some stuff (I mean learning how to port) as I noticed AROS lacks software (its's MorphOS thread, I know). If you know some useful links about porting and compiling (for beginners) please share.

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SFS? 128gb limit on partitions


I' m going to install in my future MOS machine 2 disks: 40gb and 160gb and install linux + morphos. How would you partition it? My plan: both systems on first disk, 20gb for each one and second disk as fat32 160gb

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File Size limitations?


I read somewhere about 8GB limit just like fat32 but the thread might have been outdated.
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2011, 01:48:42 AM »
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I' m going to install in my future MOS machine 2 disks: 40gb and 160gb and install linux + morphos


or maybe morphos + linux + osx?
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2011, 02:10:08 AM »
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I'd use the larger drive for the MorphOS and Linux partitions and give each 80GB. I didn't think it would happen, but I'm already finding a 128GB partition to be a little small.


Hm... I would like to have one big shared partition (videos+music+samples) easy accessible by any OS. When I install linux, I usually create 20gb partition for system and rest (eg. 140gb) for documents/multimedia. Anyway, is MorphOS working well with fat32 partitions? I read somewhere about some issues but I think it was from Aros camp.
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2011, 02:25:00 AM »
can morphos read (and write) ext3?
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Re: Switching to MorphOS
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2011, 03:08:36 AM »
...using ext2fs I suppose.

How about:

first disk - 2 partitions: 39gb mac osx, 1GB linux swap.
second disk - 3 partitions: 20gb SFS for morphos, 20gb ext3 for linux, 120gb ext2 for linux /home, accessible from all 3 systems.

BTW: does morphos need swap ??
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