Amiga flavors.

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CroCrew wrote:

AmigaOS4: Are there any older systems that can load up this OS? Who knows of the cheapest places to buy a new or used system with AmigaOS4 installed?

AmigaONE system only... someone might be able to sell you one second hand. They don't make them anymore so you won't find a new one.

MorphOS: Is there a version that can be installed on a Mac? If so What Macs can use MorphOS? Who knows of the cheapest places to buy a new or used system with MorphOS installed?

The Pegasos and any PPC Amiga (not AmigaONE)... as far as I know it doesn't work on a Mac. Best ask at the MorphZone forums to findout the cheapest price of a Pegasos board... or pick up a PPC Amiga 1200 cheap from Ebay.

AROS: Is there more then flavor of AROS?

AROS comes in several flavours:

x86 (Runs on your standard PC)
x86-Hosted (It runs on top of Linux on a Standard PC)
PPC-Hosted (It runs on top of Linux on a PPC machine)
68k-AFA (It replaces AmigaOS code with AROS code to add advanced features to the OS).

The best for most users is the AROS-MAX distribution... check out www.aros-max.co.uk which is a live CD that should boot on most modern PCs though USB isn't supported yet.

There are also AROS-in-box/AROS-on-Windows packages which run a PC emulator on Windows that boot into AROS.

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AJCopland wrote:
@pierre
Why all the negativity about the Power architecture? It's available to developers (Mac, Pegasos etc), it's made by a couple of different manufacturers (Freescale, IBM) and whilst the currently available versions aren't quite as capable as the very latest Intel Core 2 Duo / Xeon series there are updates in the pipeline.

Besides which it's still a good clean and solid architecture to develop for which is why it's gone into all 3 of the next generation consoles.

The Power architecture has only been used in the next gen consoles because IBM have been contracted to make the CPUs for them. IBM don't have to worry about patent issues with the Power since they own it. If they owned a MIPS licence the CPU's would have been built around that. Unless someone is prepared to pump the sort of money into the PPC as AMD and Intel pump into their chips it's going to remain far behind the tech curve.