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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #14 from previous page: December 31, 2007, 05:36:31 PM »
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Just to clarify, because I'm a bit swamped by posts here. Its a patch to the Classic edition right?

No. It's a bootloader to get the OS4 kernel up and running. As you can see in the video this leaves you at an Amiga kickstart screen. What will subsequently boot is yet unknown (OS4 Classic? OS4 A1? Nothing?).

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #15 on: December 31, 2007, 05:47:57 PM »
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AI just don't like it, because that way it destroys the market for their overpriced (A1) or vapor (ACK) hardware dongles.

That and piracy of their OS. I doubt they are too concerned with A1 owners booting the OS4 up on a mini-Mac, but the piracy of their OS by those not owning a A1 should be of high concern to them.  I expect to see emergency petitions going to the Federal court sometime this week by AI and Itec.

This boot CD is useless without an actual copy of OS4. It just lets you boot OS4 itself.

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2007, 05:54:14 PM »
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dammy wrote:
Guess if there is no OS4 on ftp or bittorrent, it's all safe. :-D

Well I don't know whether there is or not. All I'm saying is that this particular doesn't contain OS4. It might have bits of it, but nothing useful for anything other than launching the kernel. Sourcing the OS itself is a separate task.

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #17 on: May 24, 2008, 04:46:39 PM »
@bloodline
Email me if you want to give Moana a try on that PowerMac (and don't already have it)

Edit - not that it will do you much good without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. Been revising audiology, so my brain isn't working too well...

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #18 on: May 24, 2008, 05:19:59 PM »
@bloodline
Check your email ;-)

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #19 on: May 24, 2008, 05:26:39 PM »
Is this the VGA adapter you need?

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #20 on: May 24, 2008, 05:31:09 PM »
Cheapskate :-P

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #21 on: May 24, 2008, 05:43:11 PM »
Can those old machines do target disk mode or anything similar?

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #22 on: May 24, 2008, 05:48:08 PM »
Oh yeah... off to eBay then...

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #23 on: May 24, 2008, 05:53:04 PM »
Bummer... can you take the disk out and put it in a caddy? Might enable you to edit some BSD config file to enable telnet or AFP.

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #24 on: May 24, 2008, 06:20:45 PM »
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The Hard disk is SCSI...

I wonder if an Amiga could access it through ShapeShifter?

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Remember that this machine is running Mac OS8... it's got no BSD heritage...

I didn't know there was a PPC version of OS8. No idea how to do anything in that case!

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-Edit- I have noticed that the CD drive is IDE... and there is a spare IDE port on the MOBO... I wonder what I can do with that?

Connect IDE devices to it? ;-)

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #25 on: May 24, 2008, 06:33:13 PM »
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I wonder if an Amiga could access it through ShapeShifter?

Yeah... if I had a SCSI interface on any of my Amigas...

I have... ;-)

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Connect IDE devices to it? ;-)

Hmmm... but to what end?

I know it would be pretty pointless in this case - I was just being facetious :-D

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #26 on: July 08, 2008, 04:09:46 PM »
So if Hyp win, they get rights to release OS4 for other platforms? Is that right?

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Re: Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs
« Reply #27 on: July 08, 2008, 06:34:22 PM »
"Please Mister... can we have our OS back?"

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