New pricing announced for MorphOS

[Iggy]

I wonder if this means a new release is imminent...

Nice gesture of them, and I hope it gets some more users onboard.

? Why would a price drop signal the release of 3.10?
If you paid for it ahead of time, you'd still get the update free.
That's how the OS is distributed, no charge for later revisions to key holders.

[Iggy]

How easy is it to set up a Sam460 to dualboot OS4 and MorphOS?

Not very easy at all.
But some are multi-booting MorphOS systems.
I have a friend with a Pegasos 2 that has it set up to boot MorphOS, OS4, Linux, and OSX.

BTW - Can anyone explain to me what the weird comment from the Texan mean?

And yes, the Efika's price went down awhile ago.

MorphOS 3.10 will be released when its ready and it runs on all supported systems.

[Iggy]

Wake me when it gets to E49 for all systems... I thought it was E79 anyway, was it even more? Not interested yet...

Yes, quite a bit more for the G5 actually.
And I'm not an advocate of reducing the license fee for other models to the level of the key for an Efika.
Don't want to spend an additional 20 euros?
Well you could always buy OS4 (and until the unimpressive Tabor board arrives additional expensive hardware that far negates the pricing advantage).

Frankly, I didn't have a problem with the older pricing schemes.

[Iggy]

Nobody caught the fact that there is no X5000 pricing. I'm guessing that the price drop is indeed a precursor to announcing Morphs 3.10. And since most of the work over the past year has been about the X5000 it wouldn't make sense to charge people with G4/G5 Macs the full price.

The X5000 license may carry a premium.
But we won't know until the day its released.
According to the few developers I know its not ready for release yet.
And while the X5000 port is one focus, they won't release until the new version works on all supported systems.
So there could be issues unrelated to the X5000.