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Offline Krusher

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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #74 on: January 26, 2008, 11:27:03 AM »
The main difference between imacs and mac mini's is the videocard. The Imac's use Nvidia chips, the mini's Ati chips.
No way to get Moana running on an Imac unless someone, somehow gets his hands on the Nivdia sourcecodes and port it to OS4/Openfirmware/Moana for PPC.
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #75 on: January 26, 2008, 11:46:26 AM »
Ehm no, my Ibook G3 has an Ati Rage 128 video card. I'll be posting specs comparison.
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #76 on: January 26, 2008, 11:50:21 AM »
I'm not considering a G3 Apple since it lacks AltiVec and I don't know if Moana uses it in some way. Let's keep things simple  :-D

BTW an Ati Rage is not an Ati RADEON. The driver included into Moana won't support anything but that type of graphics chip.
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #77 on: January 26, 2008, 12:00:51 PM »
Ok.. so no ati radeon of course.. maybe a generic xga video card driver could work?
Anyway here's specs comparison:

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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #78 on: January 27, 2008, 10:29:43 PM »
Serious... Where can I find a tutorial about how can I create an iso to try on my quicksilver?
I have MOANA.ISO plus AmigaOS4.lha


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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #79 on: January 28, 2008, 04:49:19 AM »
If you own a copy of OS4 and have a copy of the SDK, the documentation states pretty clearly how the OS4 boot process works. The rest requires a little bit of knowledge of how Open Firmware works. Everyhing you need to know has been spelled out in this thread.

And at some point, I imagine the ops will kill this thread. I'm being a pessimist, I know, but I'd really like to see a legitimate bootloader for PowerPC Macs out there, and this isn't the way to go about it.
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #80 on: January 29, 2008, 03:55:00 PM »
I think the bootloader part isn't the part that hurts as you stated.

What might be tricky are the needed drivers like IDE, ethernet and sound.
Shouldn't the Linux open-source drivers help developing OS4 kernel-modules and/or drivers?
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #81 on: January 29, 2008, 04:08:29 PM »
@ackerman76

It would be much more helpful if they could get the actual hardware documentation. Linux's driver structure is quite different from Amiga OS' and the code is often quite messy and hard to read.

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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #82 on: February 06, 2008, 02:24:36 PM »
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #83 on: February 06, 2008, 06:28:53 PM »
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #84 on: February 06, 2008, 06:35:06 PM »
 Previous videos, at least the ones I saw, were only showing kickstart OS4 screens. This one shows full GUI.
 So, it's safe to say that Amiga OS 4 is fully operational on PPC Mac Minis?
Can I buy my Mac Mini and order a copy of os4?

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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #85 on: February 06, 2008, 06:37:48 PM »
i think the verdict was it was an amiga under the desk? :lol:
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #86 on: February 06, 2008, 06:43:16 PM »
Well, not really a regular Amiga.
Probably one equipped with a ~U$ 1.200 PPC accelerator. More expensive than a Macbook!

*PS* It that really fake?
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #87 on: February 06, 2008, 07:08:52 PM »
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hbarcellos wrote:

Can I buy my Mac Mini and order a copy of os4?


Of course you can buy both, but for now, you will not be able to run OS4 on the Mini. At least not without using an illegal, unsupported piece of software (which according to the author even freezes after a short time).
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #88 on: February 06, 2008, 07:35:53 PM »
"For Now"... it's so frustrating!!

Anyway, so, the video is not fake, it's possible to reach full usability (at least until it freezes) with a Mac Mini?
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Re: Mac mini Os4
« Reply #89 from previous page: February 13, 2008, 03:36:21 AM »
Hey, the webpage is updated.
Still with newbies information, but anyway, a little bit deeper.

http://os4macg4.wikidot.com/
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