Why is Morphos considered by many as the 'new Amiga OS' ?

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Everblue wrote:
Why is Morphos seen by many as a very valid Amiga alternative? Ironically Morphos is in the exact opposite situation of OS4 - You can buy OS4, but no hardware for it to run on, and you can buy an Efika, but there is no Morphos version out (yet) for it.

This statement is completely false.

You can buy OS4, but there is no hardware for it.
You can't buy MorphOS, because it is free!!

MorphOS works on the same hardware as the OS4 for sale, classic PPC accelerators.

So what do you guys think - is Morphos a real alternative to the 'next-gen Amiga OS' or its just a marketing ploy to keep Amiga users interested in Genesi stuff?

I will pretend you are not just trolling. MorphOS if far more compatible with classic Amiga software than OS4 is, that is not a disputed point even by OS4 fans.

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Then add the fact that legality of MorphOS is not in question. OTOH legality of OS4 appears to be very shaky with Amiga Inc having declared it an illegal product.

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A1260 wrote:
i have tried morphos and to be honest it's just a marketing ploy to keep amiga users interested in genesis stuff. they are just in it to earn money and split the amiga community as i see it...

morphos can run aos3.1 software but thats all to it and nothing more of interest, the new aos it never will be.

a good alternative for aos3.1 will be aros, when its ready...

you can buy aos4.0 and buy used ppc cards on ebay and run it... so saying there is no hw to run aos4 on is just crap talk...

Huh? Umm, yeah.. ok.. :lol: Please stop trolling A1260. MorphOS is not owned by Genesi and the connection between Genesi and MorphOS is quite weak for some time now.