MorphOS 2.0 Released

[JKD]

# of man hours development effort?

# of expected sales?

support?

because they can?

All I can say is MorphOS is a great product...had lots of fun with it over the years...bailed earlier this year due to finances...so I guess the price wouldn't help me either :-/

[JKD]

by downix on 2008/7/1 11:01:34

Must.... resist.... buying... new.... system... and... upsetting... wife.....

You and me both man!

I think she was elated when I reduced the 10 computer count down to 3...less so when I upped the guitar quotient because of it..but still  :-D

[JKD]

by motorollin on 2008/7/1 11:22:20

I'm tempted to spend £50 on an EFIKA to have a play around with MOS 2.0, but Directron don't seem to ship outside the US

I could order and ship you one so long as you covered all the costs..but you might be better served someone on the East Coast offering this.

The thing probably weighs <2lbs, it'd probably be about $25/$30 to USPS Priority Int'l it to you.

[JKD]

When did they ever give an expected release date? I only remember the OS4-alike "when it's done" type answers when people asked abotu that.

The MOS2.0 Q2/2008 release date ha been up on MorphZone.org for around 8 weeks I think...

[JKD]

by redrumloa on 2008/7/1 19:17:23

~$99 for an Efika and ~$160 for MorphOS? That sounds like a no-brainer to me!

Where'd the $160 price come from? 110 or 150 EUR is way more than that currently  :-?

[JKD]

Oh, yeah, thanks for pointing that out. I was right to begin with  

-Edit- Let us do the math.
111 EUR - 19% VAT = 89.91EUR
EURUSD=X   89.91   1.5883   142.8041

So in USD, the red-headed stepchild currency, it is $142.80 at current exchange rates.

OK..I wasn't thinking of that...where is the definitive US pricing?

Thanks guys..this may turn a no-way into a doable if I can get my hands on an Efika from Directron.

[JKD]

...on the other hand, I'm not liking what I am reading on morphzone, lots of efika problems, lockups, etc.

Total lack of QA....am not impressed after all this time to be honest :-/

The no sound driver thing I can understand..it's probably unstable or buggy...so QA did catch something at least

[JKD]

Yes probably... But the question really is: What software needs MOS to run? Which then leads to, What software needs MOS and is better than what I already have?

I'm not sure it's even a relevant question:

1. The platform runs AmigaOS legacy software better than any other Amiga platform
2. The platform runs legacy WarpOS/Warp3D software better than the original and any other Amiga platform
3. The platform even runs (ran?) some OS4 only software as good as or better than the hardware platform for that.

*at least on comparable hardware
**the exception being hardware banging stuff obviously

It was designed as a transition to a NG OS but without losing the legacy so that an enitre software base was already available.

That opportunity is probaly long past and it's doubtful an NG OS will be realized on a realistic timescale so I think the devs have focussed on making it a rich enviroment for backwards compatability with some great new additions but firmly rooted in an Amiga-like OS/enviroment.

Thinking the 'Amiga' will 'come back' is delusion.