Amiga OS4 on old (PPC) Macs

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This is making me start to regret selling my Mac Mini a few months back  :-(

With any luck, once it's up and running on a Mac Mini it will only be a matter of time before it's running on other PPC Macs.

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Vlabguy1 wrote:
Apple really made a G4 1.5ghz MINI?  I cannot find any info on this machine.
I only found the 1.25, and the 1.42ghz versions.mmm..
I did find info on the 1.5ghz intel Mac Mini..

There was never officially a 1.5GHz G4 Mini - some people who ordered the 1.42GHz model got the 1.5GHz model instead (with 64MB of video RAM.) See here for details.

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A1260 wrote:
Unfortunately for you the OS4 fans, that dont seem to understand this not being a hoax is definitely not a very good thing. Instead you are mostly cheering. You all is too stupid to see the big picture. Reminds me of Lemmings.

The probability of new lawsuits materializing between old and new players has greatly increased.

DBAlex has now actually helped Amiga Inc, I think we have not seen any court document on this matter because it has not been proved working, now that Amiga Inc have proof you can expect a document stating HOW Hyperion has NOT been able to protect their IP and moving their Amiga Inc's operating system to another hardware that is not licenced, aka not AmigaOne. Amiga Inc probably have a copy of the leaked iso also.  

Now Hyperion will go down and lose in court and your beloved AOS4.0 will be forever trapped.

Good luck in killing of AOS!!

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OS4 couldn't be in a worse position than it already is (no hardware available for it to run on other than ancient hardware and the occasional second-hand A1.) This could encourage more development for OS4, increasing the market and encouraging AInc to actually release new hardware instead of just promising it. People may then buy the new hardware rather than rely on out-of-production PPC Macs.

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humppa wrote:

Shame its not official, but if it sells more AmigaOS 4 copies thats a good thing...

Provided that it even runs with the Classic-version of OS4.
AFAIK, the A1-version of OS4 isn't/never was on sale (only bundled with the hw).

My gut feeling is that if it ever boots OS4 it will be the A1 version. I suspect (not based on any real knowledge, just a gut feeling which I hope is wrong) the Classic version will expect to see custom chips.

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A1260 wrote:
this is a niche market and a hobby os the companies behind it need to make a living you know, this is not the way to do it. while you other here dont care and think this will be the solution to shortage of suitable hardware. for a little time it may be true but then these few mac's that run this will be old and very popular on ebay, we will again have ridiculous high prices and people start whining. as this aint enough there will not be any new updates of the aos because you killed of the business for these small companies like hyperion. what then? you ever thing of it?... so continue with your greedy ways of wanting everything free and act like children. when aos4.0 is dead its your fault, period!.

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I really don't understand your logic. The companies concerned are making NO money out of OS4 because there is NO hardware for it to run on, and NO prospect of hardware in the near future. By ensuring that OS4 runs on existing hardware (admittedly a couple of years old now, but that's nothing considering the age of the hardware OS4 Classic runs on) the number of OS4 machines out there will increase, resulting in more development for the platform, creating a market for new (and authorised) hardware.