The MorphOS lust may soon be over...

[commodorejohn]

(Out of curiousity, what's in your AROS box? 3GHz suggests P4 to me, and if that's the case, it ain't AROS that's running like crap. Netburst sprints like a cheetah, but it corners like a yacht.)

Anyway, while the eMac is no great shakes (I'd check your local school and/or recycle center for a later Power Mac G4, you can get them for peanuts,) I have to say I've been pleasantly impressed by MorphOS - while it still fundamentally feels like an early-'90s OS (though in my mind that's no bad thing,) it's got a nice amount of polish and hangs together nicely.

[commodorejohn]

does anyone know, can I use airport card or wifi in MorphOS? If not I will have to leave this machine downstairs next to my router and use a wired connection grrrr...

This emac has no airport card, is anyone using something I can get on ebay for wifi with morphOS?

MorphOS won't work with Apple's "AirPort" cards, but certain Atheros chipsets are supported. I got a Netgear WG511T card for my Powerbook G4 and MOS works quite happily with it - the only point of concern with that is that I'm not sure how much space there is inside the eMac for its internal PCMCIA AirPort card and whether it would fit.

[commodorejohn]

Yeah, the Chrysalis pack is an absolute catastrophe.

[commodorejohn]

I believe the various Angband variants are system-friendly. They're also well worth playing

[commodorejohn]

Have you actually Read The Fuc!ng Manual?

:rtfm:

Anyone who replies to someone having a problem with "RTFM noob" should be savagely beaten over the head with the FM.

[commodorejohn]

The Quicksilver can also boot OS9 natively, which is really a better solution if you want to run classic Mac software.