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Re: AmigaOS 4XX - MorphOS etc
« on: November 01, 2011, 10:00:19 PM »
Quote from: techlord;666146
I was born around '75, and grew up in the microComputer scene...However, I never had the money for an AMIGA, but always drooled over them when I was growing up..so suffice to say, I'm new to the CURRENT amiga scene, but have been reading...so go easy on me.  I have investigated several options:

1.  Buying a Mac Mini G4 1.42Ghz with a 1 GB ram, and putting morph OS on it

2.  Buying a SAM440EX based board and building my own, and installing AmigaOS 4.1 (seems nice, but an expensive endever)  I thought I would install Morph OS first...but not sure if its the experiance I'm looking for.

One last point of note, I recently installed WinUAE, and did what I consider to be a RAW install of OS 3.9.  I'm doing that to bring myself up to speed on the OS.  So my questions are:

A.  Which route above do you think is the better one for the true amiga experiance (I know I'm going to have people telling me to buy an Amiga 1200, put an accelertor card in it, and go from there, but I', not sure I have the money for that.)  I loved the Dan Wood videos on youtube :) He has them all ;)

B.  Don't lynch me on this one, if its been asked over and over again, I googled it, and couldn;t find the answer.  Can I run AmigaOS 4.0 or 4.1 CLASSIC on WinUAE?  I know I can run OS3.9, so I was wondering what the stretch was...

Thanks in adavance for helping a OLD newcomer out.


As mentioned, it depends a lot on what you want to do with the system.

OS4 and up require powerPC, either one of the insanely expensive boards for a classic amiga, or a machine built for it (the amiga one SAM stuff)