MorphOS 2.0 Released

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Well done guys :pint:

Wish I hadn't sold my PegII now :roll:

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moto

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I'm tempted to spend £50 on an EFIKA to have a play around with MOS 2.0, but Directron don't seem to ship outside the US :-(

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moto

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@zyphoid
In their FAQ it says online ordering isn't available for international customers. I have emailed them to ask if they will ship an EFIKA to England.

@JKD
Thanks, that's a kind offer! If I don't get any luck getting them to ship it directly to me then I might just get in touch :-)

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moto

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Cammy wrote:
For people who still have doubts about how well MorphOS runs on a 128MB 400Mhz Efika, check out this demo video from AmiTopia TV - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izCLp5juGm8

Eugh, that bloke is talking with his mouth full. He even burped at 3:03! :roll:

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moto

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No reply from Directron about international shipping yet. Presumably they don't want to sell it to me :roll:

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moto

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zyphoid wrote:
the least they could have done was to reply..! I called and it seems that they don't.. Sorry mate  :-(

Thanks for checking! What did they actually say?

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moto

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pkillo wrote:
I think they're just slow to respond to inquiries, I ordered very early on Tuesday and got a call late yesterday evening from them, asking if I was sure I didn't want to buy the video card they try to sell you with it. Point is it took them two full working days to get that far on an order paid up front, so I'd give them some time.

Fair enough. I just don't want to wait too long and risk them running out of stock, or realising the demand has increased and putting the prices up.

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moto

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It all comes down to the hobby factor. For some, building the machine, setting up the OS and tinkering with no real goal in mind is the purpose of the machine itself. For others, their computer is a tool, so a computer with little use would be considered superfluous.

I am somewhere between the two. I know that anything I can do on my A4000 I could do better on my MacBook, either using OS X apps or using UAE. But I like to have the real thing to tinker with from time to time, even though I know it's not cost-effective or time-efficient.

I *had* a PegII, but I realised that I had spent a lot of money on it only to find I did nothing with it that I couldn't already to with my A4000, so I sold it. The EFIKA would be a nice, (relatively) cheap way to tinker with MOS so would fill both needs. Also, I have always wanted to build a custom case with a small motherboard, so I might as well make it an Amiga-like machine :-)

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moto

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ffastback wrote:
What part of the term "hobby" do you not understand?  English is presumably your first language yes?  If it is it seems hard to believe you are not just stirring up cr*p for fun (for yourself).   :madashell:

No, he's just trying to understand the appeal and purpose of the machine, which is fair enough. Better that than consider it pointless and keep that opinion to oneself rather than explore it and possibly learn something.

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moto

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@ffastback
Bloodline is an AROS developer, so I think it's reasonable for him to buy a machine on which to run it. All of his questions regarding MOS were from an end-user perspective: "What can I actually *do* with this OS". I think they're reasonable questions.

Any problems you have with the way he presented his argument are not really anything to do with me.

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moto

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Whatever. I really can't be bothered to argue about this.