Why is Morphos considered by many as the 'new Amiga OS' ?

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MorphOS was the _only_ alternative for "new AmigaOS" running at PPC hardware at the time. Long before OS4 was announced and any "split" had happened. And it all started with BPPC/CSPPC without Genesi stuff you talk about Check late 90's advertisements from Amiga magazines... I remember how there were adds of Elbox SharkPPC running with MorphOS etc It is just later when MorphOS users suddenly became "traitor", "evil" or similar among the certain name followers.

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sdyates wrote:
AROS runs on intel...

But AROS doesn't run Amiga software...

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bloodline wrote:
Like Linux compiled for the PPC doesn't run software compiled for Linux on the x86... I don't see a difference.

I see a HUGE difference. Linux software is usually open source and you can compile them to whatever you like, but Amiga software is mostly closed and in most cases the sources have been already lost during the years. So there's no way to get them compiled on other platform.

And as native programs, there simply isn't enough on new generation OS'es. Not on AROS, not on MOS, not on OS4. You have to fall back on original Amiga programs a lot.

[pVC]

Unfortunately I came to the same conclusions about MorphOS, which I used for a while when I owned a PegII. When I sat down and thought about it I realised that everything I was doing under MorphOS could be done on my A4000 under OS3.9, and eventually the PegII fell in to disuse and was sold.

Only thing that it's massively faster I'm running classic Amiga and Peg1 daily and with some programs, the speed on Peg1 is very welcome. I'm also watching lots of movies on Peg and couldn't do it on classic.

For me, the MorphOS is a possibility to continue being true Amiga user without need to get Windows, Mac or any other completely different platform for tasks needing the raw processing power.