MorphOS is out for MacMini G4! No cheaper Amiga available today!

[Hell Labs]

from what I hear 68k games work great !

Yeah, I forgot! x86 pcs totally have the chipset and everything!

What if you still have your key, but your Mac Mini gives up the blue  smoke? My wife's new Mac Mini (x86) gave up the smoke after 1.25 years,  so the reliability of 2nd hand machines can be of concern. Will your key  work on another Mac mini? My understanding is no. In that case if the  MOS team pulled a Kruse, the user would be screwed. I'm not saying they  would, just they could and there is precedence for it in the kommunity.       

Bathtub curve. If a machine still works after a couple of years, it'll work for centuries. Leaky caps and hard disks not withstanding, but that's really more maintenance than anything else.

[Hell Labs]

ya and MacMini's have the chipset too right?.....I run all my favourite 68k games great on my Samflex@800 running OS4.1 with glUAE so there's no reason why a quick PC running AROS should'nt run them too

What's the point in even saying 68k games "work great" then? That's not a selling point. 68k amiga games "work great" on a mobile phone.

I like the idea of an open source amiga os, but it's failed to do what it set out to do, and what it set out to do became a very outdated idea, very fast.

[Hell Labs]

I bought a morphos machine, and got one with nothing wrong with it. Big mistake.

[Hell Labs]

I should explain. A broken machine would be more useful to me, because that way I could throw it in the bin without feeling guilty. As it is, I can't, because there's nothing actually wrong with it. The 128MB ram limit makes it totally useless as a computer, by design.

[Hell Labs]

I was getting excited about MorphOS but after learning that for something designed to work on years old hardware that is only available second hand, you have to buy a new license for each machine... forget it.

Sorry guys.

Well what exactly are you expecting? Indie devs can't afford to give copies out for free, though licence transfers are something they REALLY need to do. ANd this "years old hardware" is also the best PPC hardware in existence, as well as the cheapest and the best built.

[Hell Labs]

I have an old 500MHz Celeron laptop that is literally falling to pieces (the hinges have broken the plastic laptop casing) that I could get a 14.1 inch LCD display from

Take it from somebody who knows:

Laptop screen + doing anything to it = Need both a new laptop, and to buy an LCD for project anyway.

Even if you don't accidentally pull the ribbon cable off the back of the panel (permenently ruining it, as I did to an old dell someone gave me), figuring out the pinouts is pretty much impossible. It's not exactly standard vga in there.

[Hell Labs]

Yep. It's not so much a custom graphics chip, as the companies who make the LCDs never standardising the connection. lcds in a laptop are really minimalist, there was only one small circuitboard you could get to in my old dell, and I think that was actually just to power the backlight. Other than that it's just a ribon cable, all the actual stuff is in the keyboard half.

I've seen loads of attempts to use laptop lcds, and I've never seen one actually succeed.

[Hell Labs]

So Morphos works on a Mac Mini, does it work on a Power Mac G4 800mhz with 1 gig of memory and a ATI card, or is this just an exclusive Mac Mini thing?

Unofficial rule #1 of the internet:

If the answer to the question you are about to ask is on the first page of google results, do not ask that question.