MorphOS 2.0 Released

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@ TheDaddy

There are a lot of games for MOS:

Just to name a few: Virtual Grand Prix, Quake 1,2,3, Hexen, Hexen 2, Heretic2, Hypercannon, Freespace 1&2, Neverball, Openarena, OpenTD, ScummVM, Warzone2100 and more.

And of course all the classic PPC games like Wipeout, Payback, Hyperion games etc work fine too.

Lot's of emulators: Atari800, Basilisk2, Dosbox, e-uae, Frodo, genesisplus, FCEU, Hugo, Handy, MAME, Hatari, Snes, STonAmiga,TGEmu and more.

~Salvatore

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@TheDaddy

Some programs...

Audio: Amigaamp, Aminetradio, BnP, CDPlayer, FreeDB, Hivelutracker, Milkytracker, Proplayer, PSA, Ripper, Sid4Amiga, Songplayer

Graphics: ArtEffect, Blender, fxPaint, fxScan, Gallerius, Picshow, Pixel32, Showgirls, Snapit, SteamDraw, Titler, TVPaint

Internet, AmitradeCenter, Aweb, Beehive, IBrowse, Jbberwocky, Polyglot, Rdesktop, SimpleMail, Sputnik, SSHcon, TwinVNC, VNCServer, Voyager, Wallget, Wookiechat, YAM

Text: Apdf, AutoDocReader, BareED, Microgolded, More, Pointrider, Strange

Video: VLC, Devedie, MenCoder, Mplayer, Visionary

Utils: DirOpus, Diskmaster2, Fragment, LCD monitor test, Logtool, MorphosExec, Morphup, Polynet_NG, Polyorga, Scout, Snoopium, Wetter, VoodooX

And don't forget you can also run lot's of classic Amiga software.

~Salvatore

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@stefcep2

On my Pegasos II G4 all the emulators work just as well as on Linux and Windows (except UAE, no jit).

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@TheDaddy
They run fine on my Pegasos 2 with a high frame rate on 1280x1024 (quake3 around 85-110 fps), I don't know about the Efika.

BTW here are some screenshot of programs (MOS 1.4.5): linky

I'm Italian but located in the Netherlands..

~Salvatore

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The only compelling argument made here is that it is the only AmigaOS binary compatible computer system one can buy right now... but and in answer to the post quoted below... why would I choose it over UAE?

I can think of a couple of things:

1. You don't have to boot a host OS (Linux, MacOS, Windows).

2. Because classic software runs far more responsive and faster on MorphOS than using them with UAE.

3. There's software available for MorphOS which you're never going to see on classic Amiga's because they are just to slow to be usable. Blender, Pixel32, MPlayer, VLC, emulators, games, etc... Just to name a few.

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bloodline wrote:

It is easy enough to auto start UAE or even WInUAE on a system, so that you would never know the host OS was there...

The point is that the underlying OS slows things down emulating an Amiga wich make's it unresponsive.

That's not true... the JIT on my Dual core 2.33Ghz Core2Duo is going to be faster than a JIT on any PPC... and UAE will allow hardware hitting Apps.

How good UAE might be, I find it very unresponsive compared to a real Amiga. On MorphOS running on my Pegasos 2 classic software feels more responsive.
 

Err... just run them on a modern OS... they are not platform specific!!!

That's not an argument, why run an Amiga(like)OS at all if you're thinking like that

Come on, you can do better than this...

I know I can

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So the Quark kernel of MOS doesn't slow the emulation of 68k programs down... but the Linux kernel (or WinNT kernel) does?

How do you figure that? Do you even know how an Operating system works?

UAE has to emulate everything of an Amiga, MorphOS only emulates the processor, that's a big difference! Do 'you' know how an OS works?

If you paid the same money on PC components that you do in the MOS system... you would not experience this unresponsiveness...

I've got an up to date system, thank you very much. I'm running Debian Unstable fully optimized to my needs. Don't get me wrong my main OS is Linux, I'm not an Amiga zealot, I use Amiga(like) systems for fun.

Which is the crux of my argument, and what I was asking you to justify...

Ooh, I've answered you pretty well I think, you are just not open for reasonable arguments.

Please do

I won't be bothering you again, go play with your UAE and be happy. You obvisously aren't openminded enough to apreciate anything else than your beloved OS, be it Windows, MacOS or Linux.