Amount of MorphOS copies sold

[Iggy]

actually that's pretty cool cause I didn't know MOS has an OS4 emulator & heck experimenting is like 85% of the fun I have with my miggies both my classics & NG:)

Its not a full emulator, just a wrapper. Ambient has to be able to handle to Workbench calls or it won't work.

But, yeah, experimenting and figuring out how to make something work is at least half the fun.

[Iggy]

Normally, if a thread pops up discussing MorphOS, I feel obligated to throw in my two cents.
But this hread is relatively pointless. We know how many key files have been purchased since MorphOS went 2.0.
We don't know how many users have multiple keys.
But at a casual glance, I'd saying the number of MorphOS and OS4 users is comparable.
And passionate, fanatics are about as numerous on both sides. Frankly, I use MorphOS because the entry price is good and the hardware it runs on is still reasonably powerful.
That said, I'd love to be able to afford an X1000 and would have no problem adapting to OS4.

Some of us aren't biased at all. I'm using MorphOS and AROS now, and I don't rule out using OS4 at a later date (particularly if MorphOS changes ISAs).

[Iggy]

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the number of registered MorphOS users exceeded the amount of Windows users a long time ago. Is this not correct?

That still isn't funny the second time around (posted from a MorphOS based system).

[Iggy]

Hi,

@Pyromania,

Ha, ha, ha, huh?

You make um big joke, the number of registered MorphOS users, is about half the population of Podunk Idaho. (3)

smerf

Unless each of those three has over 400 registration keys apiece, that seems unlikely.

Current registration keys? Over 1344. Many paying more then the current price of 111 euros.

[Iggy]

Morphos rules!!!

AOS4.x sucks!!!

That's relative.

[Iggy]

My A1200 rules.

You've got a better monitor then mine. I guess your 1200 does rule.

[Iggy]

@hooligan

Oh sure, morphzone.org is full of productive threads, like a 28 page thread slagging off the X1000. Yes, you're all so superior...

@Duce
You're right.

Slagging off the X1000? You really don't spend much time reading our threads do you?
The majority of people on MorphZone have been very positive about the X1000 (and considering that its an OS4 machine that's surprising).
Hey, Trevor posts there occasionally.

I'm not sure I like being characterized the way you have.

Our discussions tend to be more serious, but wait till April 1st. We can get just as silly as any other site.

[Iggy]

Do you know why I made that earlier statement? Please feel free to take a guess.

Actually, maybe I need to apologize because I really don't have to guess.

While some of us attempt to be reasonable even handed (AmigaDave comes to mind) there are a few who's immediate knee jerk reaction is to slam anything they don't favor.

But I believe these people are in the minority.

And I'm not sure MorphOS users are any more guilty then any other group.

[Iggy]

Henry,
I couldn't agree with you more.
Everyone in the community has similar interests and all our OS' are built around an OS3.1 API.
So why is there so much conflict?

Frankly, I'm using two NG OS' now and wouldn't mind trying the third.
Its hard to believe that with such a small base of users we have this many choices.

[Iggy]

What crackpipe have you been smoking lately?

I'd actually say that was a fair comment. I'm a MorphOS user, but I'd never insinuate that OS4 wasn't a legitimate offshoot of AmigaOS. And its the only OS that legally can be derived from OS3.1 source code.

...the true numbers of active users (not  people that just want to test and then forget about morphos) is more  likely around 100 or less totally.

That is a REALLY stupid comment. Sure some people have multiple licenses, but I doubt they have 14 of them. And since you can try the OS for free, I'd assume that anyone ponying up 111 euros is serious about using the OS.

[Iggy]

Os4 is not an offshoot of os3. It's a continued work from os3.

Well, since they've already used v3.9, I guess they had to move to 4.0 (then 4.1).

And it does force the ISA change (which actually makes sense to me).

MorphOS is moving from 2.7 to 3.0 with far less drastic change.

[Iggy]

HI,

"MorphOS Amiga done right"

...If morphOS was being created to be used on anything else but a MAC I would give it a whirl.

OK, then you're obligated to buy a Pegasos or Efika as MorphOS ran on those before it was ported to Macs. Or you could run it on a PPC equipped Amiga (which the original version of MorphOS ran on before the Pegasos was designed).

Just because you're anti-Apple doesn't mean you can slam our OS.

[Iggy]

Hi Smerf,
You know I can't really get mad at you (after all, you're a pancake head).

And I too know Apple phobia.
Personally, I always thought Steve Jobs (RIP) was a serious knob.
But since Apple abandoned PPCs and its older product lines (something they do regularly), I felt comfortable taking their discarded product, getting rid of their crappy OS, and making it run like a proper computer.

So while even the thought of Apple gives me hives, I can tolerate the machine I'm using (of course about half the internal components are not Apple parts).

Oh, BTW, while I am a MorphOS user, even I am getting tired of takemehomegrandma's posts.

[Iggy]

One MorphOS statistic that can't be known. How many people don't mind rebooting for 4 seconds every 30 minutes, thus don't register.

Boot time for a warm re-start is actually about 30 seconds.

Good point though.

[Iggy]

MZ is MorphOS specific forum, however, you are free to open up a thread at our General Discussion. Welcome.

Absolutely. Two current threads focus on the X1000 and AmigaDave's First Contact system. Hardly MorphOS specific topics.

[Iggy]

MorphOS looks great to me but I keep saying I'm going to buy a mac and try it and so far I haven't. There is alot higher likelihood that I'll do that than
buy os4 hardware though, thats for sure.

My AROS box does most of what I want right now. I'm thankful for all the little updates and fixes lately. Tonight in fact I'm going to reinstall the latest icaros and amiga forever. Then I have 8 gigs of dos games to transfer, and many thousands of classic amiga games and apps. Its likely that I'll never be happy with any system, amigoid or other... Always tinkering.

Steven

Steven's probably using the best NG OS suited to running old software.
Since OS4's creators have full access to 3.1 that doesn't make sense (and MorphOS is more clearly focused on new software ). Ah, so be it.