Finishing OS4 Mac PPC port?

[takemehomegrandma]

zylesea wrote:
@ DiskDoctor

Why bother when there is an alternative: MorphOS will support the Mac Mini with the next major release.
Maybe even the Powerbook (no official word about the Pb yet).

But there are pictures! :-)

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39336

[takemehomegrandma]

Gebrochen wrote:

BTW, various things on MorphOS remind me too much of Windows, I HATE that.

Wow, I wonder what that could be that makes MorphOS too similar to Windows?

Is it the Amiga system files structure, with C, S, L, Libs, etc directories?
Is it the Amiga file systems, device names, etc? The RAM: disk?
Is it the fact that the entire desktop and all MorphOS native programs uses MUI, the UI that quickly became the "standard" on Amiga after its release, used by many, many (if not most) Amiga programs?
Is it maybe the integrated Poseidon USB stack, which has defined Amiga's USB standard since... well, since Amiga got USB!
Is it the AHI audio? Or Cybergraphics? Amiga standards in RTA and RTG that has been part of Amiga since ages?
Or is it the many famous Amiga applications that Amigans have got used to during the years, 68k and PPC, that runs just fine at speeds never seen on any Amiga before, in exactly the way an Amigan would expect them to? (MorphOS has the best Amiga compatibility among all NG Amiga OS's)
Well, I can't think of anything more right now that's part of the behavior, interaction with the user, or anything else that could possibly make a user feel like MorphOS equals to Windows in any way.

That comment of yours really made my day! I mean, wow... :roll:

I'll tell you what reminds me of Windows; the installation process of OS4, and having to open various different configuration applications to make system settings that would really have benefited from being set in a centralized manner.

[takemehomegrandma]

@DiskDoctor

Also, there exists a hardware for OS4 already so actually why bother porting the OS to some discontinued and non-supported platform?

Hmm, maybe because of this:

OS4 with its only existing hardware, using an Efika class CPU, comes at a price that almost equals a  Quad-Core PowerStation with 2x 2.5GHz "G5" CPU's, 4x CPU cores, 4x Altivec, 8x FPU's, 4x 1MB L2 cache, 1 PCIe x16, 2 PCIe x8, 1 PCI-X, etc, etc.

Absurd if you ask me...

Even the slowest Mac Mini would run circles around the OS4 hardware, it's easily available, and at very reasonable costs.

Was that enough reasonsn? ;-)

[takemehomegrandma]

tomazkid wrote:
Regarding the legal status, take a look here:
Post number 9.

Possession can't be illegal. Spreading it might, but not owning it.