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Re: I received mac mini and installed MorphOS
« on: June 14, 2012, 03:24:17 AM »
Can anyone explain to me in detail WHY they will not or have not yet added g5 support?

I would think its not so difficult, but then I never programmed for powerpc, just 6809,68000 and x86.

The performance gains would be well worth the time investment, unless I suppose their rather just put all their energy into an x86 or arm port?

Thats what I'm thinking, Piru, care to comment please?

Also, can someone tell me, whats the fastest speed powermac g4 you can get that morphos supports? I'm really planning on finally getting one.

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Re: I received mac mini and installed MorphOS
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2012, 03:46:17 AM »
I don't understand the hating on morphos.

The decision to port to mac in my opinion was brilliant. Why? Because they had a power pc OS with no more custom (pegasos) hw being produced.

g4 Macs are cheap and extremely plentiful, as is spare parts for them.

If you want to spend 1500$ on 10 year old spec hw just so your os says amiga os go ahead, some people are fine with a very amiga like os on a 50$ mac thats faster than most Os4 hw....
 

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Re: I received mac mini and installed MorphOS
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2012, 04:10:39 AM »
Smerf,

I suppose I used to feel that way about macs, especially pre osx macs. I thought pre osx macs were the biggest piles of **** ever.

What? No multitasking? Come on man, even windows did that in 1992. (of course amiga did this in 1985!

Back to macs...
The hw was fast enough to multitask but the os was such a pile of ****. I used to laugh at the idiots paying huge money for them.

I have to say though, the HARDWARE of the models they made for osx are beautifully made. Osx though? Not a fan, used linux for years to me its retarded someone paying such huge money to basically run a prettied up linux distro. (I know its not based on linux but its so similar its funny)

If you actually look at the enginnering, the construction of a powermac g4, mac mini, cube g4 and even the g4 emacs, you see they are pretty well made. Myself? I like the hw, but think osx is bloated and over hyped. Take that hw and put morphos on it, and I think its a good reason to buy that nice hw...