ppc and os's

[B00tDisk]

Windy wrote:
thank you cyberus ... but that does not really answer my question ...the definitions are great but trying to put them ALL into an understandable context of this question is a little difficult. ie: the eyetech Amiga One site is closed.

Non A1 PPC machines would be :
Amiga "classic" systems (A3000, A4000, A1200) with PPC cards
Pegasos I & II boards.

These (can) run Morphos 1.x and later.

Some adventurous souls have gotten MOS to run on Apple hardware, IIRC.

There are also PPC Linux builds (Yellow Dog Linux, f'rex.) that you can run on these systems.

[B00tDisk]

Dan wrote:

B00tDisk wrote:
Some adventurous souls have gotten MOS to run on Apple hardware, IIRC.

What?
Somebody else than Ralph and the dev team? :-?

It's been...about two years now since I'd heard anything about it so your guess is as good as mine.  I simply recall having heard that "someone" (I'm guessing it was Ralph and the dev team, then) got it working on Mac hardware.

Of course, they'll be hard pressed to get it working on 2006 mac hardware!  Muah ha ha ha ha!

Ahem.

[B00tDisk]

Windy wrote:
@BootDisk....The A3000, A4000,and A1200 with a ppc card will run Morphos ?

That's my understanding.

Windy wrote:
The new Coldfire is a complete motherboard or to attach to the existing motherboards? Also having trouble getting info from Elbow... is the Coldfire  benchmarked yet ?
thanks...

I'm delving into personal opinion here but I really don't see the Dragon (the coldfire board) making it out of the starting gate.  Sure, Elbox ("elbow" ! ;-) ) may be playing their cards close to their chest but I'm just not seeing it.

Anyone who has any serious interest in the Amiga is either going to try to track down an A1 of some stripe (ha! ha ha!  Good luck... :-? )or a PPC card (again, good luck).

IF the "ACK" PPC card(s) for the 4000 and 1200 (and possibly the 3000) ever see the light of day then for a classic user those will be the better bet.

Me?  I'd like to see a PPC card for the 2000, and one of these http://www.fadbox.de/computercity/AHT/davinci.htm for Z2.  Just for the faster graphics card.