MorphOS on Power Mac G5

[Crom00]

Wow I have a 1.8 ghtz G5 that is showing it's age but will make the perfect Moprhos box. Folks can't give away the G5's becuase they just can't run the new MacOS intel only stuff. ***JOYGASM!***

[Crom00]

Morphos is quite robust. The only offerings that can run Amiga os4 are expensive hobbyist specialty machines. Love the idea of taking readily available mass market machines repurposed as Amiga compatibles.

At this point Hyperion should consider porting AmigaOS to mac PowerPC and start on an intel version.

[Crom00]

As far as the OSX graphics overhead. At an Apple Con an Apple employee told me OSX interface is totally PDF vector based... So there you go. Still amazing the fucntionality of it on the Imac G3400 with tiger.

[Crom00]

I use my 128T almost daily and I find it very useful, but it is certainly obsolete

You tell 'em Red!!!

AS for OSX pdf thing... I know, it didn't make sense but the way he explained it to me was that I should look at the icons... they never pixelate when you use the genie effect becuase they're rendered in vectors. When I aske the goy some other questions he cas totally clueless and told me apple flew him to the convetion to fill in for someone else.

[Crom00]

I still use my classic amiga machines and they are of more use than an arcane hobby. My 1200 is still my main music production system, for example. It doesn't make it any less obsolete.

I hear what you're saying Karlos but you can widen your horizons a bit... Blender for example would benfit greatly from the G5's power. You may not be into GFX but the bottom line is for the price of a nice A1200 030 based setup you gain a really powerfull system that has access to Mac OSX leopard 10.58. The best of both worlds for many of us.

[Crom00]

What we have here is a win win situation. For those that want os4, get one of the various bits of hardware. Morphos runs on Macs... If I was a developer I would make sure that releases can run on both, if such a thing is possible. I'm curious to see what sofware is developed in the future.  Sure as hell beats the legal limbo of the past few years.

[Crom00]

Exactly! I really don't expect to see many packages that are exclusive to either OS. And the presence of competition may drive both development teams.

It'd be hilarious if Hyperion released a version of OS4 for G5 Imacs or the Graphite G4 (cheapest most common) or  something like that.

Even better just fold and port it all to intel. Come one... if this stuff ran on intel, you don't think they're be Morphos or OS4 netbooks?