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Offline ferrellsl

Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #14 on: May 21, 2007, 05:40:59 PM »
It's supposed to run MorphOS 2.0 when it's released.  See this  link:  

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17951/MorphOS-2.0-on-Its-Way
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #15 on: May 21, 2007, 06:11:10 PM »
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Why the red side, all sides of the red side, refuses to use cheap, available, working hardware even to this day is beyond me


I know.  I remeber dreaming of an 030, then an 040 running at 50mhz!!  Then the 060 came out.  I never even new what GHZ was.  That would have been just a sci-fi joke if I ever heared some one talking about it.

Now I have a multi-core multi GHZ monster machine.  You can find them for nothing these days and everyone is moving to quad core and to 8 core it seems.

Yes, red side please wake up and move to cheap fast available hardware!  :-)
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #16 on: May 21, 2007, 06:14:44 PM »
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It's supposed to run MorphOS 2.0 when it's released.  See this  link:  

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17951/MorphOS-2.0-on-Its-Way


There's a picture available that shows a monitor plugged into a silver box the size of an external 3.5" Hard Drive enclosure and it appears to be running MorphOS.  Could that be an Efika?!   :-o
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #17 on: May 21, 2007, 06:19:10 PM »
Very nice and positive news!

Will get one when MorphOS is relased :)
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #18 on: May 21, 2007, 06:25:30 PM »
I wish there was some reseller here in Norway..
Seems like Datakompaniet is stocking them.. But of course they want the naive amigans to pay for 4 boards while they only recieve one.. *sigh*
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #19 on: May 21, 2007, 06:29:48 PM »
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Love him or hate him, Buck just delivered on another promise.

Why the red side, all sides of the red side, refuses to use cheap, available, working hardware even to this day is beyond me :crazy:


Why do you have to bring the Red/Blue bollocks into it?


I'm wondering what else MOS2.0 delivers, that makes it 2.0 rather than 1.5.  All I've seen mentioned is transparent windows.  There must be more than that.  Is there some info embargo or something?
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #20 on: May 21, 2007, 06:42:10 PM »
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Why the red side, all sides of the red side, refuses to use cheap, available, working hardware even to this day is beyond me

You seem to live in the past. It is only a very small minority who is a so called red zealot these days. I myself do indeed still prefer OS4 over MorphOS, but i will definitely get the efika once MorphOS has been released for it.
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2007, 06:52:47 PM »
Cool!
I am quite interested in MorphOS and if this means I can pick up cheap hardware to run it I'm all for it.

 
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2007, 07:02:19 PM »
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There's a picture available that shows a monitor plugged into a silver box the size of an external 3.5" Hard Drive enclosure and it appears to be running MorphOS.  Could that be an Efika?!   :-o

Yes it is, MorphOS already runs on the EFIKA. BUT MOS for EFIKA has not been released, like the working MOS 1.5 Kernel has not been released since uhm 2? years. So all please do yourself a favour and only buy it if your OS of choice is available.

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I wonder what sort of reception I'll get on "Blue" sites?

That probably depends on how you handled the blue ones in the past, and how you are going to treat them now ...normally MorphZone is a real nice place.
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #23 on: May 21, 2007, 07:20:06 PM »
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Yes it is, MorphOS already runs on the EFIKA. BUT MOS for EFIKA has not been released, like the working MOS 1.5 Kernel has not been released since uhm 2? years. So all please do yourself a favour and only buy it if your OS of choice is available.


Excellent news.  Thanks for the info.  I already have an Efika board.  I was hoping that creating a user-base might help convince certain parties that porting a certain OS might be a good idea, plus I fancied playing with Linux.  Well, I'm no linux fan, but I am looking forward to being able to install and run MorphOS on it.

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That probably depends on how you handled the blue ones in the past, and how you are going to treat them now ...normally MorphZone is a real nice place.


I've never been on one of the "blue" sites before as I don't see the point of walking into someone else's house just to point out that you don't like the furniture.  However, I have been quite vocal in my "support" for OS4 on other sites.  ;-)

These days, I look back on the whole Thendic/Amiga and MorphOS/OS4 battles as a complete waste of time and effort.  I just want to see a real OS running on real hardware and I don't care who provides it, just as long as they do.
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #24 on: May 21, 2007, 07:24:48 PM »
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Why do you have to bring the Red/Blue bollocks into it?
 


I don't know about bullocks. When I said "red side", obviously I meant the companies involved. I'm sure in 2007 most "red users" would love to have cheap, available, working hardware. What would sell more OS4? Efika or no hardware?
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #25 on: May 21, 2007, 07:26:10 PM »
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Why the red side, all sides of the red side, refuses to use cheap, available, working hardware even to this day is beyond me

You seem to live in the past. It is only a very small minority who is a so called red zealot these days. I myself do indeed still prefer OS4 over MorphOS, but i will definitely get the efika once MorphOS has been released for it.


Yeesh, calm down people :lol: There are no camps left, for the most part. I said "red side" refering to the companies involved. OS4 on Efika should be a no brainer...
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #26 on: May 21, 2007, 07:32:41 PM »
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There's a picture available that shows a monitor plugged into a silver box the size of an external 3.5" Hard Drive enclosure and it appears to be running MorphOS.  Could that be an Efika?!   :-o


On this picture that's showing the MorphOS network configuration window, you see a blurry text at the top that say: "mpc52xx_eth.device". As you know, MPC5200 is the CPU in the Efika. :-)

It's coming! :-)
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #27 on: May 21, 2007, 07:36:15 PM »
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It's coming![/url] :-)


Yeah, but so is old age.   :-D
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #28 on: May 21, 2007, 07:53:30 PM »
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I'm wondering what else MOS2.0 delivers, that makes it 2.0 rather than 1.5.


Good question. Rumors say that many fundamental changes "under the hood" has taken place. I don't know what that may be. MUI4 is a major new thing, and I guess the Ambient ("Workbench") has traveled pretty far. TCP/IP stack, maybe even with support for the Pegasos gigabit ethernet, who knows? It looks like the HD Toolbox has become what it should have been from the beginning. Quite a lot has happened to the USB stack since the 1.4 release. It looks like Reggae will be an integral part?

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All I've seen mentioned is transparent windows.


AFAIK, the big news there is not the transparency itself, but the fact that the GUI is rendered by the GFX hardware(?). If so, then it's kind of big I guess... ;-)

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There must be more than that.  Is there some info embargo or something?


A valid question IMHO!  :roll:
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Re: Now that the Efika costs €75....
« Reply #29 from previous page: May 21, 2007, 07:54:40 PM »
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It's coming! :-)


Yeah, but so is old age.   :-D


 :lol:
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