redrumloa wrote:
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OTOH MorphOS is available for classics free of charge.
Yeah - but unfortunately it just comes with support for the wrong PCI-Busboard:
it supports the dead G-Rex instead of the still suported Mediator.
:headwall:
Don't get me wrong - I was really lookig forward to it to give it a try.
I downloaded it and everything (with a 56k modem) - but when I wanted to install it I had to realise that it does not support vital parts of my HW (e.g. no video output as I have an Voodoo4 in my not supported Mediator).
I will certainly not try to get hold of an G-Rex and then rebuild my A4kPPC just to give MorphOS a try!
The same goes for Linux. I would have loved to test it on my given PPC hardware - but it does as well not support my Mediator, as far as I know.
So there is no point in giving them a try - they disqualified themselves by ignoring and not supporting the quasi standard HW regarding PCI on the Amiga platform.
"Quasi standard" because its the only PCI busboard for classic Amigas that is still beeing manufactured, available and supported.
I would really love to see that the authors of MorphOS and Apus-Linux would understand that "not supporting Mediator" was a big mistake and if they could bring themselves to adjust this (but I'm afraid there is little hope for this).
