Who has what Amiga??

[SamuraiCrow]

I have an A1200 with Blizzard 1230 and SCSI adapter with a 16 meg EDO SIMM.

I also have a MicroA1-c which runs AmigaOS 4 prerelease 2.

And, to answer your other question, there is no version of AmigaOS 4 that runs on the Pegasos 2, it runs an Amiga-clone operating system called MorphOS.

[SamuraiCrow]

A towered A1200 with a PowerPC accelerator card has a much smaller PowerPC chip than is used in the AmigaOne series.  The AmigaOne was sold by Eyetech but is discontinued.

The Pegasos 2 was also discontinued but, unlike the classic PowerPC version of AmigaOS 4, MorphOS classic is a freely available download.  MorphOS runs some PowerPC Amiga software and a lot of classic Amiga software as well.

The current hardware capable of running MorphOS is the Efika computer from Genesi.  It is a tiny thing with 128 megs of RAM that has a slower PowerPC chip but it will still run circles around a towered A1200 with an '030.

The biggest problems with AmigaOS 4 and MorphOS is that, unless you're running the classic versions on an accelerator card on an A1200/4000, you'll have to run an emulator like EUAE to get the old software to work.

For more information about MorphOS see MorphZone and to see more information about AmigaOS 4 see AmigaWorld or Amigans websites.

[SamuraiCrow]

The AmigaOS 4 prereleases came with a discontinued computer called AmigaOne.  Since AmigaOS 4 is getting ready to ship on CD-ROM, according to this interview with one of the developers you might want to hold off on the PowerPC systems, for a while to see what it will run on or won't and if new hardware for it will become available.  It will definitely run on a PowerPC-accelerated A1200 but the accelerator cards are very expensive for that reason.

The only new hardware capable of running MorphOS is the Efika, a small form-factor system intended for use in embedded systems.  It's not much of of a step up from a PowerPC-accelerated A1200 since you'd still have to emulate the custom-chips to run any old classic Amiga software.