OS4 on the pegasos

[Van_M]

I don't know much about Morph Os, can somebody tell me if it's any good and are there any new games or games planned for it?

Some ineresting game ports are coming from EPIC Interactive. Among them thy mighty DIVINE DIVINITY!

But if games is your priority, I'd suggest you stick to the pc OR buy a Peg II, add a tv card and hook up a PS2 (or Gamecube or XBOX) on the RCA-video in port.

Some cool open source games (with qualities of commercial titles though) have been ported by Louise

I use BT Broadband. Are their drivers available for those stupid little BT Voyager USB modems?

BT is the most horrible company when it comes to support and you don't use windows. There are no official drivers and there will never be. Some linux users have managed to develop a semi-working driver for linux, (by using a USB-port sniffer and monitoring what goes in and what comes out) but it was for an early Voyager modem. It doesn't work with the one BT currently offers. I'd suggest you get an ADSL router or switch to cable broadband.

I'm no fan of nVidia - they make overhyped, hot, noisy cards that are strictly only for heavy gamers. I wouldn't get one.

I just witnessed the fan of my GeForce2 Ultra fail, last week (£170 in late 2001).... bugger... give me a robust card with passive cooling and I'll buy it with closed eyes. I think that the best card someone can buy for the pegasos II is Radeon 7500. They sell for next to nothing and, we're not gonna get Half-Life 2, anytime soon, are we?

I just wish I had the monies for a Peg2 computer... I have so many good ideas for programming!!!

[Van_M]

Amiga OS4 is based on Amiga OS source code, it is the natural evolution of AmigaOS on the PPC. Why it shouldn't be Amiga?

Large part of the original AOS sources were in assembly right? In addition to the above it was also designed for different kind of hardware (different CPU, custom chips, different expansion ports etc)...
Now, a small quiz:
WHAT MAKES MORE F@£%$%N' SENSE!?!
1)Writting an OS from scratch, in such a way that it provides a compatible API and an emulator for the old applications + a GUI that immitates the original (to a certain degree)? OR....

2)Getting the 68K/ASM sources and
   a. reverse engineer them into something easier to understand
   b. Changing the kernel so it works with the new cpu
   c. locating and cutting out the custom hardware bits
   d. porting the 68k ASM functions into PPC C/C++.
   e. Adding support for the new hardware (BIOS, AGP, PCI, SDRAM... more or less everything!)
   f. making an emulator so the old apps work
   g. pressing the big, red "compile" button with a silly smile on your face!

for crying out, loud....

--EDIT-- h. Celebrate 2028! :lol:

[Van_M]

Personally, I use SpySweeper. I think it does the job pretty well. My machine was showing up clean with Ad-Aware, and when I first ran SpySweeper it found 64 pieces of spyware!

[Van_M]

Now what exactly are the important hardware differences between the A1 and Pegasos?

The pegasos2 uses the Marvell Discovery 2 northbridge which is somewhat newer technology. It doesn't have a real AGP bus, but relies on a PCI64 port adapted to AGP. Currently this isn't a problem since there are no amiga applications or games demanding enough, so that they'll bottleneck the bus. Pegasos2 also has 1 10/100 megabit and 1 gigabit ethernet (integrated inside the nb) and a firewire controller. Marvell's gigabit ethernet and the firewire controller are still unsupported by MOS, though. The Pegasos2 works with PC2100 memory rather than PC133 ECC/registered. This removes a big deal of trouble, finding the appropriate ram module.
--EDIT-- I forgot to add, that the Pegasos 1/2 have a working onboard sound chipset. It's not anything fancy like 5.1 but it does the job well (with the latest firmware upgrade).

[Van_M]

I had an AGP4x graphics card work in an AGP 2x system ok. There's a voltage difference between 8x and 4x, but AFAIK most AGP4x capable motherboards can use an AGP8x graphics card.

The problem would be if you attempted to install an AGP 2x card on a motherboard that works with AGP 4x.
The 2x cards demand 5v power to work while the later demand 3.3v.
If the mobo doesn't support 2x then the card might "burn" the motherboad while trying to pull electricity that the board cannot provide. Nasty stuff, indeed!

[Van_M]

Sadly, AmigaOS and clones barely make it to 1 percent of desktop OS market share.

I think you are massively exagerating, my friend. Unless there are only a million desktop computers, out there, amigas are more like 0.001% of the total desktop market.