X11 ports? no thanks. Any x11 thing on Amiga is an example of quick'n'dirty port that should have never been published.
What make you say that's quick and dirty? By how stable it is, by its number of feature?
Timberwolf port is primitive and not really useable compared to any real browser. It's funny you present a pre-alpha crashy thing as a flagship.
And yet it's so far the best software on OS4 to e.g. download videos and mp3s from many sites. I find it funny that you imply that it's not usable at all.
go to os4depot. If you take away quick SDL ports and unix cli command apps there's nothing much left that worths to be listed.
And by taking away all the SDL and Unix ports I should realise that every SDL port made for OS4 needed no change to the makefile, or it was derived from MOS? How do you make that connection?
Since he has the chance of running a better MPlayer version in a Peg2 thanks to MorphOS I think it's quite related.
What I see from his question is just "how is OS4", I don't read it as a "please tell me what's the best Amiga environment out there".
I could say that any ACube hardware is not produced anymore since the produce just a few dozens of boards from time to time.
Well, it's just a matter of reference. I could also say that x86 PCs are not produced since they are being produced since only around 30 years which is nothing compared to 2000 years of no PC being produced. But if you choose a reference which is different you really can't continue a discussion.
Efikas may be limited but still only cost a fraction of the price of Sam440 and you can try out MorphOS on them for free (just like in any other hardware like Peg2/Mac Mini/PPC*Classics) while you have to pay around 500Euros to try out OS4 on Sam440.
But Sams are more powerful than Efikas, so the increase in price can be justified. And besides, MOS is anyway OT here.
I bet the limited Efikas will run Quake2 faster than a 50% faster Sam440. And USB file transfer also works faster on Efikas despiting its limitations.
This doesn't help much since OS4 doesn't run on Efika.
No problem, take any eMac/Mac Mini and enjoy the power of altivec now.
Well, you proposed a comparation between OS4 and MOS machines, I guess it's your turn to compare them too.
The same story Eyetech and others told us: buy this thing you don't really want so we get more money to produce the thing you want.
Wow, so you're implying I didn't want to get my AmigaOne?
We would be in a far better situation if Moana had been released.*3rd party hardware producers could still release new hardware for those who think having new prototypes sold to endusers is important.
What is the problem with these?
Sam460.After plugging a decent gfx card and a SATA*PCI card you will have 0 free slots, nothing brilliant.
So, "hackish" = "you don't like".
small cache will make that emulators runs slowly and lack of Altivec will hit multimedia performance and even old Pegasos2/G4 performance may be higher.
Ok, so now you're saying that a Sam460 might not be worse that a Pegasos2 G4. I agree with that.
If buying new prototypes hardly tested, hard to replace and with G2s cpus from decades ago is your idea of "new"...
No, my idea of new is something that hasn't been produced years ago and that has no valid warranty. BTW where did you read that Sams are "prototypes" and "hardly tested"?
I prefer hardware well tested produced in hundreds of thousands of units, easy to replace, faster and cheaper.
That's the point... *you* prefer. That's different that saying that for OS4 users Peg2 are a better choice than Sams.
Does any of those Timberwolf plugins allow you to watch youtube videos fullscreen?*no? too bad.
So the only use for a plugin is to support Flash? I use a plugin to download videos from various sites, but judging from your above sentence it shouldn't be considered useful.
It's slow and buggy and even they aknowledged it when it was released "as is".
And yet me and other people find it to be useful even if it's alpha.
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