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Re: MorphOS 3.0 released!
« on: June 14, 2012, 04:14:31 AM »
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Sweet Yeti of the Serengeti! How much for a G4 PowerBook these days?

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Hi,

If its over 2 centavos, cents, peso, it is just too much.

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Re: MorphOS 3.0 released - PowerBook G4 support and new pricing
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2012, 04:35:11 AM »
Another looney says

[MorphOS, OS4 and Classic Amiga systems are the only ones who are real 'Amigas', not that joke AROS or Amiga Forever.]

It is so nice of you to let us know what real Amiga's are, since I was with the REAL Amiga two weeks after it hit the market, I would dare to say that MorphOS is just another Amiga emulator that works on just a MAC. I do not consider MorphOS or OS4 to be real Amiga's. They are very poor emulators of the Amiga system. The Amiga Forever emulator is closer to the real Amiga then anything else out there, it is mostly automatic so any beginning computer user can load up an Amiga program wheter it be NTSC/Pal, AGA or PAL. It even emulates a 4 disk system when you have a program that has more than 1 floppy disk, by this I mean it will run an old 4 disk program by automatically sensing that this program has 4 disks and automatically sets up for a four disk drive system. Amiga Forever even senses CD32 cd when placed in your CD drive. It is the utmost in Amiga Emulation, nothing else compares to it's simplicity, not even the real Amiga itself.

To say that MorphOS is a classic Amiga, is like saying a VW is like a Ferrari, there is just no way that MorphOS can compete with Amiga Forever, it is just too simple of a computer emulator that needs a lot more work to even compare with version one of the original WinUAE.

Sorry but the truth should be known.

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Re: MorphOS 3.0 released - PowerBook G4 support and new pricing
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2012, 04:46:41 AM »
Hi,

@dreamcast270mhz,

Let the truth be known!!!

 [MorphOS has transcended the classic Amiga, while retaining WarpOS compatibility and adapting to more recent hardware. All Amiga forever acts is as a "Franken Amiga" reanimating the original OS on modern PCs. It therefore is a glorified DOSBOX for the Amiga platform. Also, ever since MorphOS, when i do use it, allows for moutning of floppies and images i can move beyond the contrains of floppies, which I have always hated. When I make some programs for MOS and Amiga, I plan on releasing them via digital distribution. ]

Let us examine the preceding paragraph as stated by dreamcast270mhz

MorphOS has transcended the classic Amiga, while retaining WarpOS compatibility and adapting to more recent hardware.

Do we really mean to say that MorphOS has emulated the Classic Amiga while retaining WarpOS compatibility and adapting to older abandoned hardware by the Mac community that only some Mac fanboys are using today because of their classic nature (you know sort of like the Amiga).

 All Amiga forever acts is as a "Franken Amiga" reanimating the original OS on modern PCs. It therefore is a glorified DOSBOX

We can also say "All MorphOS acts is as a "Franken Amiga" reanimating the original OS on MACS. It therefore is a glorified MACbox.

Your last paragraph moves you to the ignorance bin, Amiga Forever has moved from the constraint of floppy's to hard drives, CD's, DVD's, double layer DVD's, USB thumb drives, etc. and uses a new digital compressed storage routine. Where have you been? living in the past Mac world. I have news for you MAC's don't use PPC processor's anymore, they have moved up to a newer dual core INTEL processor. Did you know that?

Now moving original Amiga programs over is rather hard, VIP is really only floppy based, you can't get around it because back when the program was made, floppies was the only cheap medium they had. This accounts for all earlier programs made for the Amiga.

Now actually it is you Mac fans coming to an Amiga website talking about how great your MAC emulator is.

As far as costs "How much are they charging for an incomplete MorpOS package?
You know that MorphOS package that is still being developed?

Amiga Forever only charges me $29 since I bought the original for $49. I gladly pay the price of the new AF's only to show my support and have PC's available because unlike owning a MAC I can get PC's rather cheap, and they have outstanding hardware compared to your "mini mac standards of "more recent hardware" that was abandoned by Apple about 5-8 years ago.

Talk about Chaos, great game but "you lose"

Been with Amiga 2 weeks after it first arrived, great machine for the time, my hobby now is hot rodding Amiga's and seeing how far I can take them.

I guess you can say that about your MAC's.  How much power can you get out of a MAC using modern day PPC's.   LOL!

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Re: MorphOS 3.0 released - PowerBook G4 support and new pricing
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2012, 05:04:06 AM »
Hi,

@kedawa,

OK, I will admit it, I have all the emulators out there and use them, I have the original MorphOS, that I have used on my PPC 240 MHz blizzard Amiga 1200, it loaded up, but couldn't do anything with it. It was a really early version, I thought it was doing pretty good while they wrote for Amiga PPC cards, MorphOS continued development but commited the greatest crime to a real Amiga user, they went to the dark side, where I remember a certain individual named Steve saying "Amiga -- oh you mean that weak underpowered game computer by Commodore"  come on we are talking about real computers here, and then another person named Bill saying "Yes computers that can operate a business"

Anyhow before I get to off track, I have used every OS that has come out for the Amiga, and I am even thinking of breaking my vow of never to use a MAC just to see how great the new MorphOS really is.

But then do I need to waste $250 dollars on old obsolete equipment that is not worth upgrading, or should I waste another amount of money paying for an OS that really isn't going anywhere?

$250 today can buy me a real good video card for a PC, or an upgrade for my AMD processor based PC, or maybe even a mediator card for my Amiga 1200 PPC based machine.

Can't see wasting money just to try out MorphOS, can you?

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Just been to the MorphOS site, no where on their site does it say that they are trying to make a new Amiga OS. The only thing they mention is Commodore. Interesting.

Anyhow not to spoil all the fun, I would like to thank all the developers of AROS, MorphOS, OS 4.1 etc. for their efforts, sometimes even I forget that these people are programming a new OS, they need our help, if they would put donation jingles on their site, maybe it would ease the pain a little. (Now you all know how CUSA feels).. We need to get together and support someone or something, we need to concentrate our efforts, for once we need to come together and support something, we need a track, but first we need to suggest which path to take, agree to it, get everyone together and follow that path. (God, I can't believe I am saying this, I may have to break down and buy a MAC depending on the vote).

Anyhow thanks to all you programmers out there. Keep trucking and not *ucking. I will shut my mouth after this, post on all OS's because the programmers and community need it.
« Last Edit: June 17, 2012, 05:33:30 AM by smerf »
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Re: MorphOS 3.0 released - PowerBook G4 support and new pricing
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2012, 02:32:37 AM »
Hi,

@kedawa,

Well I swallowed my pride and asked the wife if I could buy a mini-mac that I had found on ebay  for $130, her answer was you know you don't need it, and besides that the cabinet I need for putting clothes in cost $129, and then how about the bathroom remodel that you started on, aren't you going to need money for that. You know you have about 10 computers in your computer room, do you really need another one. No I don't I only have 6 in the computer room, oh well why fight with what is right.

Another loss for buying my first Apple product.

Just really wanted to see what this MorphOS thing is all about, OK, I am addicted to OS systems, I have CPM, IBM 1.0, 1.2 etc., Amigados, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.5, 3.9 and OS4.1, I have windows 1.0, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7 and now am playing with Windows 8 (I love it). I have AROS, Ubuntu 6.0 through 11.10, Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, and also Windows 2000, Windows NT, and a couple of others that I haven't had a chance to play with yet.

It is driving me crazy to see this MorphOS so that I can give an accurate critique of it. The first obstacle was it is on a MAC (gosh I hate MACs). Why in gods name a MAC, are your trying to torture me. OK, rant over, I have a C128, C64, TRS80, Cocoa, Atari (junk), Texas Instruments, and may as well throw in the CD32. The only computer I have ever refused to buy was an Apple product. I hated that ash hole Steve Jobs that much. If anyone of you ever wanted to see a worse ash hole than Bill Gates it had to be Steve Jobs. It was his way or the highway, if you didn't do it exactly like he wanted it done, pack your bags, if he was wrong it was still pack your bags. OK 2nd rant over.
Now you ask me to buy a computer that comes from someone that I hate more than the worst enemy I have in the world. Just knowing that he had something to do with it, completely makes me want to scream.

Never will get to examine MorphOS, looks good on youtube, but that will be the closest I get.

It isn't MorphOS that I hate, it is the hardware (that's cheapest) that I just can't stand.

Will be waiting for a good MAC PPC emulator, to try out.

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Re: MorphOS 3.0 released - PowerBook G4 support and new pricing
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2012, 03:27:11 AM »
Hi,

Anyone know if MorphOS will play the Classic Amiga Games, if so anyone have a list of games it will play.

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