Report on DCE Repairs

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MorphOS for my Blizzard? that sounds nice

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Neko!!! your avitar looks just like you ;-)

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FarQuad is right, there is no such thing as an Amiga any more. Other than Price there is almost nothing to tell the Pegasos1 and the AmigaONE apart (Firmware is not an issue since, Any OS could be bootstraped by any firmware)

There aren't any real computers anymore, just a collection of interchangable parts.

The Computer has become a commodity! All the internal components are commodities!

A badge/lable/sticker does not make an Amiga. There are no more amigas, just as there aren't any more spectrums or amstrads etc...

Imagine if one were to have clung tothe C64 (I know many did) and refused to look at the Amiga, unless it had been called the Commodore1000... it's weird, raelly weird.

Amiga is now about the community, and it should be about the community taking control of it's own ideal of how a computing platform should be, be that PPC or x86... be it closed source or open source... be it custom hardware (does that exist any more) or industry standard...

We get to choose now! not some company!! Enjoy it, it may be your last chance!!!

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Well, dont you think that Amiga os 3.5-3.9 is a AmigaOS? AmigaINC did not produce that OS themself either, Haage & Partner did... The orginal AmigaOS was not done by commodore either, it was done by some british company...

Don't talk about stuff you don't understand.

AmigaOS was developed by the Commodore-Amiga team, only some parts of CAOS were behind schedual, so MetaComCo (some British company as you put it) grafted parts of the TripOS Kernel into AmigaOS, this became what is now known as the dos.library.

research your facts before you post.

Sorry for this Off-Topic rant on a subject most of us already know.

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Just a quick question....

Is it possible to switch the 68040 on the Blizzard Card off?
Mine gest VERY VERY VERY hot, and since MorphOS won't need the 68k (I assume we get the 68k JIT) it would be best to not have it running.

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Pop quiz: which company created Amiga Basic for Commodore?

hahaha, funny you should mention that. I found the A2000 AmigaBasic manual...

I was horrified to notice that it has no mechanism for waiting for events, one has to construct a busy loop to poll all the events your program handles!!!

No wonder it was so lame.

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I do not believe so. You still need to boot the system with the Kickstart first, so you need the 680x0 CPU for that.

Ahh but, and Ralph is the best person to ask I guess, can the 68040 be switched off once the PPC has taken control? I know the 68060 has power management modes, does the 040 have these?

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well... who cares about who made it? It turned out to be a damn good OS, and that is not just because of its name.

I still ask again, is AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 not a AmigaOS?

well, AROS, MorphOS and OS4 have all done away with the TripOS dos.library and implemented solutions that fit the AmigaOS design better.

AmigaOS 3.5/3.9 are IMHO just standadised AmigaOS3.1 hacks.