MorphOS 2 vs. AmigaOS 4.1 (pros/cons)

[redfox]

@amiga4ever

I have lots of experience with one of these two OS's but have never even seen the other in action at all.  So any opinions I give would naturally be slanted towards the one I own and use daily.

In my opinion, if you a have a chance to try both systems without having to purchase either system first, then you should try out both and decide for yourself which you like better.

The official AmigaOS 4.1 GUI is Reaction, but MUI is also included for compatibility with programs which require MUI, such as IBrowse, YAM, SimpleMail, WookieChat.

Other than that, either system should meet the needs of the average Amiga user.  System friendly 68K applications should work on both.

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redfox

[redfox]

@amiga4ever

I tried my best to present an unbiased opinion in my earlier post.

Here is some info about the system which I own and use every day ...

AmigaOS 4.1 :banana:

My system is a MicroA1-C.  After a few glitches at the beginning, my AmigaOS 4.1 system is very stable now.  I use it daily for surfing the web, listening to music, and general hobby stuff.  Due to video RAM limitations on the MicroA1, I am not using all the bells and whistles.

I use a mixture of PPC and 68K applications.  All the following programs work fine.  I launch all of them directly from my OS 4.1 Workbench (except for KingCON, AWNPipe and SMTPpost).  I have not tried all the features of every program ...

OWB 2.13 (Origyn Web Browser)
AwebPPC (aka AWeb APL Lite 3.5.09)
IBrowse 2.4
Final Writer 97
NotePad
MultiView
UnArc
AmiPDF
WarpView (an image wiewer which uses Warp3D to display the images)
DvPlayer (Digital Video Player for AmigaOS)
AmigaAMP
PlayCD
AmiDVD
MakeCD
Cloanto Personal Paint (PPaint)
TVPaint
Real3D
WookieChat
SimpleMail
YAM
MystDemo program (have not tried the real game)
LTris
Soliton (a very nice MUI based Solitaire card game)
E-UAE
KingCON
MicroRexx
AWNPipe
SMTPpost from INetUtils
AmiPOP

Both of my USB flash sticks and my camera work fine with OS4.1 ...
Lexar JumpDrive 512MB formatted for FastFileSystem with long file names
Kingston DataTraveler 512MB formatted for FAT
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H2 camera

I also have a single Memorex High Speed CD-RW disc which mounts as an OS4 cdrw: device, which I can use as a read write device similar to a very large floppy disk.

I use AmiDVD for backups, writing to CD-RW discs or CD-R discs.

E-UAE allows me to run some very old programs which require the classic chipset.  I also use E-UAE to install programs which require the old installer program from AmigaOS 3.x.

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redfox

[redfox]

@amiga4ever

I have never seen or used MorphOS 2, but I like the screenshots available on the net.

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redfox