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Re: Old Mac hardware?? Amiga??
« on: April 13, 2010, 12:23:37 AM »
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Maybe I'll get flamed to hell for this, but it seems to me that a lot of old Mac PPC hardware is floating around. I just pulled a Performa 5200CDS out of my garage. It has a built in CD, Floppy, monitor, 32MB of ram, a PPC 603 cpu and a ethernet interface. I HATE Mac OS 8 or 9. It would be FANTASTIC to load Amiga OS on this. Why has no one made a port? It would open up the available hardware for Amiga OS and breathe new life into old hardware. I'd much rather load Amiga OS on it.

Just a rant and a thought!


As others already stated such 60x stuff is too outdated given the fact that G4 hardware is realy very cheap (the mini costs a bit still, but the others are really, really cheap). And while MorphOS on a low end ppc is fun already, the joy is even greater with some serious horse power(there are *demading* tasks available for MorphOS). Mac mini, Powermac G4 and eMac are pretty good choices. The powerbook port will be the icing on top.

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Re: Old Mac hardware?? Amiga??
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2010, 11:25:42 PM »
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Hello everyone, I am not a MAC expert but I have been trying to look around for a suitable one to possibly install MorphOS on it. I came across someone who is selling an Apple Quicksilver Power Mac G4 with  867 MHz and has 1.128 GB RAM. OS X 10.5 a DVD burner. Is this a good machine for $75? Less? What's it worth? Is it good for MorphOS?


The price seems fine for me - there's plenty RAM and OS X 10.5. MorphOS will probably run nice on that maschine, but the current release comes with support for Mac mini G4 only. The cpu speed would be fine for most things.
It is not confirmed when the release with support for the PowerMac G4 actually will arrive.


According thread on morphzone.org.
http://www.morphzone.org/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=6684&sortname=&sortorder=&sortdays=&viewmode=flat&order=1&start=200