MorphOS users.. do you like your OS?

[takemehomegrandma]

2. Amiga feel: Absolutely. I switch between MOS and OS3.9 without having to switch operating mindsets like I do when switching between MOS and Linux. Taking the title out of consideration, you'll never know the difference.

That sums it up pretty good IMHO! :-)

[djbase]

It is so nice...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg6F2ctl8kQ

 ;-)

[amigadave]

I haven't had the chance to see much of AmigaOS 4.0 yet (other than a few demos at AmiWest last year that did not impress me too much), but from the few demos of MorphOS I have seen, I would have to say that it looks great and I want it.  I wonder how slow it is going to be on my CSPPC 233mHz 604e?

[amigadave]

I wish both MorphOS and AmigaOS 4.x would be released for the old PPC Macs so we would have a large supply of hardware to run the two OSes on.  That would prompt me to spend the money to fix my G4 PowerBook (again). :lol:

I would gladly spend up to $250 USD for either OS if it were released to run on any PPC Mac.  Not because it is a better OS than OS X or Windows XP Pro, but just because I am an Amiga user!

P.S. I would also buy either if they are ported to x86, but that would be a lot more work and I don't see that happening any time soon.

[pVC]

I've been long time Amiga fanatic (classic) and Peg1 user for 2-3 years, but now also have been using OS4 with A1XE for some time. I'd say both OS4 and MOS are really nice systems, but somehow MOS seems to be more compatible with old Amiga software (at least than Final Update of OS4). OS4 has nice softreboot, which boots even faster than Pegasos

But there's one thing which makes OS4 impossible to be my main computer. It hasn't advanced in file handling area. Workbench has basically the same functionality than in 3.x... whereas MOS's Ambient has progressed more to DOpus Magellan direction. That wouldn't be that big flaw if there would be working Magellan or similar for OS4, but there isn't at the moment. Old 68k Magellan works on MOS, but not in OS4... and no sign yet of the promised new version. You have to rely on DOpus4 or similar, which is pretty clumsy nowadays. And I really think, that these kind of functions should be in OS itself nowadays.

USB support is MUCH better in MOS, thanks to Poseidon. And I also like MUI4 more than Reaction, but that's a matter of taste... anyway as a long term Amiga user, I feel more home with MUI than Reaction.

Prefs system is bit messy on OS4. The old way of having separate prefs programs for everything isn't quite capable of today's amount of options. It would need some evolution from the 20 year old system. I think MOS has also taken a step forward with this.

At the end, I still feel to be home with my A1200/060/everything most (typing this message with it now , but Pegasos has taken a place as my main computer. OS4 at the moment is pretty much a nice toy for me. If there wouldn't be Pegasos, I guess OS4 would be entertainment machine for movies etc, but until there's better file handling possibilities, I guess A1200 would be mostly in use still

[magnetic]

Amigadave

You are going to get to try out my peg2 with mos soon

@ Xeron

Please tell us how in the world OS4 is better than MOS in any way?

Just to give the Classic Amiga guys who never tried morph a story:

 I had an A4000T with Phase5 PPC, Cybervision PPC, Vlab Motion, Toccata, video toaster, 20gb storage, w/ OS 3.9 + cybergrafx 4

I LOVED this machine. Then I got into the developer program of Phoenix consortium and got my Peg1 with MOS 1.3. Before long I did not use the 4000T AT ALL except for video editing with vlab motion/vT 4000. The peg ran all the software I ran on my 4000T but better and faster!

Soon, I sold the 4000T and got a Peg2. Love every second of it. Now, my Peg is quad boot:

OSX Tiger
Ubuntu PPC
Gentoo Linux PPC
Morphos 1.4.5


its great.

magnetic

[guru-666]

@magnetic
to be fair you can't use the peg to do video editing.  the problem is there is NO software for either morph OR os4.

IMHO the 4000T is a way more usefull machine, you should not have let yours go.

OS3.9 is still the best amiga OS out there, just becasuse all the hardware and software you can run.

[Framiga]

i have PAR + its capture card up and running onto my MOS for PowerUP system (far from a NLE solution anyway).

[Framiga]

OS4 whatever people thinks, its a more complete OS.

Which one is better? no clue... i'll tell you when/if i'll get a copy of OS4 onto my system (the only way to compare the 2 OSs)

[guru-666]

@framiga
Just based on what YOU said here, I have to disagree with that, try to run PAR + capture on OS4.


morph is more compleat and actauly available, I'm not usre what I would call OS4 at this point.

[Framiga]

just based on what you said, you have no the freaking clue of what are you speaking about.

PAR is totally indipendent from the OS but the GUI (easily promotable with NewMode).

I don't know (as you) if the PAR will works on AOS4 hence, your wasting your time with such comparision.

Obviously i'm speaking about MOS for PowerUP and an eventual Classic Amiga OS4.

[pixie]

Krashan wrote:

I like to use MorphOS on my both machines (Pegasos II G4 and Efika) and also like to make it better :-).

Naughty naughty... joking at us, mere mortals who don't have access to MOS on EFIKA... :-P

[guru-666]

@Framiga
work on your social skills... they are lacking.  You are a  genius... LOL

It's obvious, MOS is better than OS4, there is more hardware and software to run.  

[Jupp3]

I remember doing the first MorphOS tests on my A1200. I think it was 0.3.

It was really hard to setup, depended on lots of classic amigaos stuff to work back then, was a bit slower than my 060 due to emulation (175MHz PPC) and was quite unstabile aswell.

But still it felt awesome. It was unbelieveable, how the whole system ran just on PPC processor, only needing some serious bugfixing etc. :-)

On the other hand it felt a bit "wrong", as the expensive 060 chip was left totally useless. But I saw it as a "way to the future", running on machines with only PPC chip, as it was becoming harder & more expensive to update classic amigas...

So then came Pegasos 1. I saw it at local demonstration, and it certainly was a lot more stabile (I had updated MorphOS on my classic a few times) and looked like something "almost usable". Anyway, that's when Pegasos 1 made it onto my shopping list, and when finally available for general public, I bought one.

1.3 worked ok, and later released 1.4 even better. Obviously I also updated to Pegasos 2 when the update offer became available.

Then came long delays in releases, and even if major update is still not released, the 3 worst bugs / missing features were fixed (namely support for Radeon 3D graphics, bugs in DVD access (only first 4GB could be read properly) and HD support (there was some max limit, which I can't remember now)). Also MUI and Ambient have improved a lot since then. Even if I'm quite happy with the current system, there are some rather minor things I don't like, such how it isn't possible to change the 32bit pointer to new one (4col pointers probably should work, but that's why I haven't even bothered testing them). Also memory fragmentation slows the system down after a few days, if it's in use constantly. But that kind of small fixes and new hardware accelerated graphics system make the next version worth waiting for :-)

So what do I use it for then? Basic networking (forums, irc...), software development (OpenGL & SDL based own projects, written with GoldEd), media playback (videos, audio) and games (mostly MAME)

And yes, I do realize that I could do most things on other systems aswell, and some might argue I might be able to do them even better (especially web browsing, but I don't really browse "too demanding" sites that much, and I have linux box running anyway)

Last but not least, it's also "Something Completely Different" after spending whole day developing with Linux at work :-D

[djbase]

amigadave wrote:
I haven't had the chance to see much of AmigaOS 4.0 yet (other than a few demos at AmiWest last year that did not impress me too much), but from the few demos of MorphOS I have seen, I would have to say that it looks great and I want it.  I wonder how slow it is going to be on my CSPPC 233mHz 604e?

Well, its useable, even on my slower 180 MHz CSPPC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJHB85nJwew

Sorry, not the best quality, will make a better video later.

[A1260]

 :-x