They don't publish a road map. That is both good and bad. For the current market, it is probably mostly good. They have suggested PowerMac G5 and Power Book support is upcoming. I tried out the demo of MOS 2.7 recently on a G4 PowerMac and it is pretty impressive. I came very close to registering, very close indeed. I recently told myself that I am giving up on all retro computing. If they release G5 support in the near future with a couple more features, I may have to back out of that statement. MorphOS is really looking good. The OS is polished and pro looking, plus it just works.
Did you try "Pack Ultimate" for it?
It's a very quick and easy way of getting a pre-configured system up and running, with lots of applications installed, system settings configured, etc! Perfect if you want to really see the strengths of the system in a quick and easy way, without spending an eternity of setting things up yourself (which you will hardly do when using a demo).
Here is a cut'n paste from the "readme":
Hello,
I am Papiosaur, webmaster of website www.meta-morphos.org
I present you Ultimate pack v1.6.4 for MorphOS 2.7.
This pack aims to promote applications dedicated to MorphOS.
You must install it just after a new installation of MorphOS 2.7 (registered or not)
This pack is not official and always in version beta.
Here is a list of preistalled software :
- WEB:
AmiRSS
OtrMUI
WallGet
WBRSS
-Communicate:
AmiGG
AmIRC
Jabberwocky
PolyGlot
SabreMSN
SimpleMail
-Audio:
AudioEvolution demo
AminetRadio
CodeAudio
DigiRoller
ExciterPlayer
SongPlayer
UADE
-CD-DVD:
CD Tools
FreeDB
FryingPan demo version
Ripper
-Development:
Scout
FileX
SimpleCat
-Desktop:
April
ClockToy
CLONCK
CRABUM
Dragon
Elephant
Meridian
MisterBanana
PolyNET NG
Wetter
ZoomIt
-Files:
AMUIDiff
MultiRen
R
Rival
SimpleFind
Voodoo-X
-Hardware:
PCITool
TopCPU
-Log:
SnoopDos
-Monitor:
GammaMeter
-Network:
AmiTradeCenter
dNETc
GiftMUI
MLDonkey
RC-FTPd
RDesktop
SmartSMBFS
TwinVNC
VNC Server
- Office:
AntiWord
GhostScript
MUIBase
ODG-Viewer
PointRider
SCANdal
XML-Viewer
-Orga:
CManager
PolyOrga
SAB
-Paint:
TVPaint
-Picture
Gallerius
PicShow
PtpDigCam
WAManager
-Text:
NowinED
VisualGuide
-Video:
BlueHD
FlashPlayer
MPlayer
RadioScript
ScreenRecorder
Titler
Tubexx
- Commodities
Altabber
KidLock
Lucy
PointIt
Scube
sZoom
Unmask
You can lauch Amiga software and games with contextual menu (dms, adf, executable) copying the contents of disk Workbench 3.1 to
sys:Applications/Emulators/UAE/HardDiskS/Workbench/ (Attention, do not replace startup-sequence file).
You must also copy ROM 1.3 image file for Amiga 500 (named kick13.rom) and ROM 3.1 image file for Amiga 1200 (named kick.rom) to
sys:Applications/Emulators/UAE/Roms/
IceFoldersPack and PlexiFoldersPack, Wallpapers and also mimetypes have been realised by Patbest.
You can download others Icons, Wallpapers and mimetypes on his website : http://amigaos0morphos.olympe-network.com.
A big thanks to the developpers of software available in this pack and of course to the MorphOS Team for MorphOS ;-)
Don't hesitate to support them.
If somebody want to contribute to the evolution of the pack Ultimate, the is no problems ;-)
You can send me suggestions and remarks to my address mail : (removed by me)
Thanks
Papiosaur
You'll find a download link in this news item:
http://www.morphzone.org/news/1845.htmlAlso, don't forget to download the very latest OWB for it (and also don't forget to really read the documentation in order to get the most out of it):
http://www.morphzone.org/news/1849.html(EDIT: Oh, and I wouldn't really consider MorphOS to be "retro". That's certainly not its ambition. Retro is the Classic Amiga HW (or UAE), OS's, games and apps *of the past*. MorphOS clearly aims to be a real OS you can use for real stuff, and although it lacks some features normally seen on desktop OS's (like memory protection, etc) and some apps (office and flash is at the top of my mind), it doesn't make it "retro". I'd instead call it an "Enthusiast OS for Amigans, that actually can be used for real stuff in 2011, but in an Amiga environment"!
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