Why would I move to MorphOS?

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* What is the level of Amiga OS3.1 support?

Very good with non hardware hitting programs. You can even run WB3.x instead of the Ambient, if you want to have classic Amiga setup instead of more advanced system

* Can it run WHDLoad style games? (be gentle with me here!)

Only if you run MorphOS on real Amiga where original chipsets are available. Otherwise old hw-hitting games must be ran with UAE. But newer gfx-card and AHI supporting Amiga games work usually just fine.

* What is the Native application support like? (Office type, Web browser etc...)

There's pretty good native application support on smaller apps, but with some application types you still need to use Amiga programs. In practise you can't see much difference are you running native application or Amiga application. For native web browsing there is Sputnik, which has modern engine... and Papyrus Office is native office kit, but I'm not sure about it's future development. I'd say one of the most important native application is mplayer. It's working very well and with good support. That's one thing real Amigas can't do.

* Is it quicker than say 3.1 on an unaccelerated A1200?

Uhm... How it couldn't be faster?-) If you run same app on A1200 or on MorphOS, there's just ridiculous big speed difference Only thing where classic Amiga can be faster is booting time, but that's when classic Amiga doesn't have any patches etc ran on startup. MorphOS itself boots in couple of seconds, but OpenFirmware things take some time in the beginning.

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Most of us are using Pegasos, so it's hard to see that particular problem. Take our talk for fully supported systems But I don't have any doubts it will be usable on Efika too when the update comes, but the deadline just came too early for it this time.

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Painkiller wrote:
Well for the short period of time that I used MOS 2 on my PEG II before I sold it. I'd say it was well worth it, but then again no "Amiga" type system can fully replace your current system. Too much is missing, Java and Flash support for browser to be exact and ofcourse Open Office would be a nice addition, but no Java = no OF etc.

Whaat? Pegasos replaced my "current" system very well, thank you Pegasos is now my main platform, which was earlier souped up A1200.

I haven't seen any real use for Java or Flash in browsers... mostly stupid games or ads. Actually I avoid installing them on PC's too when I have to use them. OpenOffice works fine without Java too, at least on Windows. For occasional needs for better browsers I can have Linux on my Peg.