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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: digiflip on May 15, 2011, 10:51:21 AM

Title: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: digiflip on May 15, 2011, 10:51:21 AM
Is power pc based and radeon gfx. I think it would need drivers for bluetooth?
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: DaNi on May 15, 2011, 11:01:16 AM
Quote from: digiflip;637921
Is power pc based and radeon gfx. I think it would need drivers for bluetooth?


Wii only have 88mb, 64Mb External GDDR3 SDRAM and 24Mb internal
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: Templario on May 15, 2011, 11:28:36 AM
Quote from: digiflip;637921
Is power pc based and radeon gfx. I think it would need drivers for bluetooth?
No, and neither OS4
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: Karlos on May 15, 2011, 11:42:50 AM
Are you asking if it can run or whether it could be made to run?

The answer to the first question is no. I don't know about the second, but I sincerely doubt the MorphOS core developers would be terribly interested. If they were about to support PPC platforms other than the mac / pegasos / efika, I'd personally prefer that it was classic Amiga machines rather than something like the Wii.
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: digiflip on May 15, 2011, 12:37:54 PM
true plus nintendo wouldn't be too pleased
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: Matt_H on May 15, 2011, 02:57:34 PM
Quote from: digiflip;637948
true plus nintendo wouldn't be too pleased


I think it's more likely that they wouldn't notice, since the Amiga/MorphOS community is so small.
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: Iggy on May 15, 2011, 04:49:27 PM
It could be done, but it has been discussed and dismissed.
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: kedawa on May 15, 2011, 10:24:49 PM
Quote from: digiflip;637948
true plus nintendo wouldn't be too pleased

That hasn't stopped the homebrew channel.
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: Iggy on May 15, 2011, 10:34:55 PM
The biggest problem would be the limited memory. The Efika only has 128MB and that can be problematic. 40MB less would really limit some software.
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: save2600 on May 15, 2011, 11:53:28 PM
Quote from: Iggy;638013
The biggest problem would be the limited memory. The Efika only has 128MB and that can be problematic. 40MB less would really limit some software.

Totally agree. Unless there was a patch or extension that allowed SD cards to be used as RAM or virtual RAM somehow...
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: kedawa on May 16, 2011, 02:26:05 AM
That would be the slowest RAM ever.
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: kolla on May 16, 2011, 02:28:54 AM
Quote from: DaNi;637923
Wii only have 88mb, 64Mb External GDDR3 SDRAM and 24Mb internal


Yes, and MorphOS is bloated as heck. Linux runs just fine on the Wii though, so why bother with MorphOS?
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: save2600 on May 16, 2011, 02:37:57 AM
Quote from: kedawa;638047
That would be the slowest RAM ever.


A1200 PCMCIA RAM is slower than ever  ;)
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: smerf on May 16, 2011, 02:54:13 AM
Hi,

Morph OS can barely run itself, and only with the right junk. Do you really expect it to run on a WII?

You make um big joke.

smerf
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: Iggy on May 16, 2011, 03:45:38 AM
Quote from: kolla;638048
Yes, and MorphOS is bloated as heck. Linux runs just  fine on the Wii though, so why bother with MorphOS?

That's amuzing. Linux is less bloated then MorphOS and Linux runs fine on a Wii? Running Linux on an 88MB machine would be painful. MorphOS would work, its the apps that would be the problem. You have to have some memory for those.

Quote from: smerf;638053
Hi,

Morph OS can barely run itself, and only with the right junk. Do you really expect it to run on a WII?

You make um big joke.

smerf

Suddenly smerfs become little blue trolls. Wiis are game machines. They are not that well suited to running a real OS. Even the PS3 (which is light years more capable then the Wii) has limitations when used as a personal computer.
To paraphrase, you're not thinking of "the right junk".
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: jj on May 16, 2011, 09:49:13 AM
Quote from: kolla;638048
Yes, and MorphOS is bloated as heck. Linux runs just fine on the Wii though, so why bother with MorphOS?

 
I take it that is a Joke ?  Yes
 
I can't even be bothered to argue you against it , must be a joke
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: Karlos on May 16, 2011, 11:13:07 AM
Quote
Running Linux on an 88MB machine would be painful.


Don't confuse Ubuntu or any other desktop feature-heavy distribution with Linux itself. I've ran linux fine on devices with less RAM than that.
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: utri007 on May 16, 2011, 01:42:12 PM
There are plenty of better PPC computers than Wii at least point of amiga computers

Big part of Digi-TV hd recorders are actually PPC compuert, with embebbed linux. Many of them have all the needed components to be full feature computers, it is just matter of OS

CPU is usually at least 300 mhz or better, low spec is 604e if I remember correctly. Ram is at lest 192mb and HD is big :D

I'ven't found any information wich GPU they use???
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: Iggy on May 16, 2011, 03:22:10 PM
Quote from: Karlos;638105
Don't confuse Ubuntu or any other desktop feature-heavy distribution with Linux itself. I've ran linux fine on devices with less RAM than that.

Of course, since Linux is only the kernel used by Ubuntu. You probably could come up with a configuration that would run with the limited amount of memory on a Wii.
But would you want to? What features would you have and what software would run on the system?

There's a difference between can you and would you.
I could see using Linux on a Wii, but not for general computing. It would make a interesting media server/playback device.
Title: Re: Can morph os run a WII?
Post by: digiflip on May 16, 2011, 03:26:51 PM
how good is uae on wii aint tried it in ages you can download from homebrew browser channel does it do aga even yet?