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Re: Next MorphOS version: 3.0! (Not 2.8)
« on: September 22, 2011, 12:01:34 PM »
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Come on, play nicely. We don't like it if MOS people come on and spoil AOS/AROS threads, so we should afford them the same respect. This is a thread about MOS, let's keep it that way.

This is a forum. I don't think there are (or should be) rules regarding comment/comparison between systems.

Certainly the price (not the only reason but one), is more than I am willing to spend for a hobby os - I believe morphos could be far more attractive to developers if this was changed. However, it is certainly good news for Morphos users (apart from the g5 imac/powerbook support). and good that existing users get free upgrades.
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Re: Next MorphOS version: 3.0! (Not 2.8)
« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2011, 03:37:34 PM »
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I take it you feel the same about AOS4 price wise ?

Checking if I'm an os4 fanboy? :)

I feel the same, if not perhaps more-so as the hardware is more expensive too.
 

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Re: Next MorphOS version: 3.0! (Not 2.8)
« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2011, 03:43:44 PM »
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Well, I understand that not everyone is prepared to pay money for their hobbies, we are all different and have all different priorities. But few hobbies are completely for free, and among the mature, "usable for real" NG OS's (which excludes AROS), setting up a system with MorphOS is by far the cheapest option, and the value you get just increased even more with the free 3.0 announcement! MorphOS is completely free to try out and use though, if you don't mind rebooting every 30 minutes! :)

30 mins is a bit annoying when trying to dev on it though - but enough to try for sure :) I've used the older morphos and done some coding on it on my cyberstormppc which had no limit of course. When morphos was released on the mac mini, I think it could have created a bigger storm and had a larger userbase had it been priced differently - perhaps so it would entice those who were not "current" amiga users. Also perhaps it could have had some developer programme to get more software support (which then gets more users). Just the way I see it, obviously not the same as the main morphos team, who I think are not that concerned about numbers.

I'm going off topic now anyway.....
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Re: Next MorphOS version: 3.0! (Not 2.8)
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2011, 04:33:12 AM »
one comment regarding how much to pay for a hobby os, is that for me, i already moved on, for my "main os", and something like morphos might well be no more that say playing with a new "raspberry pi" or my recent thing "o2 joggler". the joggler was £50, has kept it's resale value and has been a lot of fun. I don't know if i would use morphos enough to justify the price tag for myself. I think the licensing is a little restrictive, and as a developer, I guess I dont get a public bugtracker, source and so on to play with. as that is part of the fun for me. Perhaps if I got morphos I would run it lots, I don't know.

Having said that, if the morphos team thought to give me a free key, that would be lovely ;-)

As I said before, I think offering developers morphos would be a good idea - Even I (Shock!) ported one app to morphos (hivelytracker), after getting it to work on os3, then later aros. or some order like that. I think morphos might have been last, but people asked for it, and I had an old morphos so it seemed a logical progression. (I think morphos gcc assumed signed chars and I had overlooked that in some code, causing a problem, my fail. and I had to change some new process call to specify ppc, but I made the effort and it works)

/ slightly drunk goodnight *burp*
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