MorphOS ahead of AROS?

[Iggy]

@Mazze
OS4/WOS/PUP compatibility: AROS doesn't have that.

Good points all, except maybe that one.

[Iggy]

This conversation is still going on?

I thought we had settled this and decided DOS was the way of the future?

Two days later, I check in, and yep its still going on. WTF?

@AmigaNG

There is absolutely no reason for you to apologize for anything,  especially not for recommending people to get AROS. Even the thought of  that is crazy, of course you have every right to do so in this free  world if that is your opinion. But also I should have the rights to  express my opinion that MorphOS brings a far better Amiga NG experience  than AROS on an old PC (I'm actually quite convinced that *no* MorphOS  user (and no OS4 user either for that matter) would accept to  *completely* replace their systems with AROS, it's simply not the same  thing, it plays in a different league), and that PPC Mac's aren't very  expensive either (often costing between 20-200 dollars) without  HenryCase insinuating that I am causing hate threads against AROS, which  obviously isn't true.

This is ridiculous. What's wrong with people on amiga.org these days  (and no, I am not talking about you), it seems it's getting worse by the  hour... :crazy:

Hey, I got slammed pretty hard for this too (apparently I'm a troll and I didn't even know it).
And I use both OS'.
Can I help it if, at this stage of development, I prefer MorphOS?

And, as to the state of our community, we're losing people over the lack of civility here.
AmigaDave asked Transition to delete his account last week.
I haven't seen a post from Redrumloa in awhile (although he's on MorphZone quite often).
We're getting a little too polarized and too argumentative.

Have I mentioned that I support all three NG OS' and can sympathize with those holding on to legacy systems?

[Iggy]

And I was called a child.



I will never post here again...

Yeah, me neither. :laugh1:
Hey Manu, I've been playing around with my AROS system (which I would add to my signature, but then it wouldn't fit within the space limitation).
There's a fair amount of software out there for this OS.
I was surprised.
Then again, thanks to Xdelusion, I've been checking out Haiku and it too has a lot of software written for it (and both still beta, amazing).

[Iggy]

FreeDOS does rock!

Can you make a boot floppy with it for BIOS flashing?

Currently I boot my machines with a Win98 CD to a command prompt to do this, but it would be simpler if I could just have the flashing software and BIOS file on the same floppy I boot with.

[Iggy]

Especially as he is the only person not using flash memory or DVDr to play the films like everyone else does :lol:

Funny, right before checking back on this thread I was playing back a ripped copy of a Godzilla movie (don't worry, I actually own a DVD of it).

I don't use DRDrs too much.

BTW - Its scary how much old programs like DVDdecrypter still work on.

[Iggy]

x86 is the best bang for the $ + most widely available hardware crap. Port it all over to this then. Why re-invent hardware when you can ride for free? Morph currently making good use of old Apple stuff. I say good for now with this strategy. Riding for free! But...the future will have to be something else obviously. Screw ARM and the horse it rode in on regarding a desktop hardware architecture. So back to the x86 possibility. Makes sense. MorphOS team various comments seems to indicate a future shift in this direction. I say, 'good !'

Hard to say what the shift will be, but you guys could be right on track.
 
However, currently we are about to receive v3.0 and v3.1 has been announced. So the PPC track is still being followed.
I'm running v2.7 on a 1.42MHz G4 Powermac and it runs quite well.
My total investment is quite low (a fraction of what I've spent on my X86 system) and my Powermac runs circles around hardware like the stuff used on Acube motherboards.
 
I wouldn't count out the possibility of G5 support before an ISA shift. We have a far amount of native PPC software.