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

[pVC]

Unfortunately I came to the same conclusions about MorphOS, which I used for a while when I owned a PegII. When I sat down and thought about it I realised that everything I was doing under MorphOS could be done on my A4000 under OS3.9, and eventually the PegII fell in to disuse and was sold.

Only thing that it's massively faster I'm running classic Amiga and Peg1 daily and with some programs, the speed on Peg1 is very welcome. I'm also watching lots of movies on Peg and couldn't do it on classic.

For me, the MorphOS is a possibility to continue being true Amiga user without need to get Windows, Mac or any other completely different platform for tasks needing the raw processing power.

[Hans_]

pVC wrote:
And as native programs, there simply isn't enough on new generation OS'es. Not on AROS, not on MOS, not on OS4. You have to fall back on original Amiga programs a lot.

Which is why both OS4 and MOS can run original Amiga programs. As much as it's preferable to use native apps, old apps such as ImageFX work just fine.

Hans

[Einstein]

Krusher wrote:
Right, well, I'll just have to wait for UAE integration. For me, Amiga is pre AmigaOS 3.9, and I love those silly demo's that go hardcore on the hardware. So for me it's a must that Aros is 100% compatible with ALL software out there.

I doubt it will be (near) 100% compatible, initially.

[tonyyeb]

Einstein wrote:

Krusher wrote:
Right, well, I'll just have to wait for UAE integration. For me, Amiga is pre AmigaOS 3.9, and I love those silly demo's that go hardcore on the hardware. So for me it's a must that Aros is 100% compatible with ALL software out there.

I doubt it will be (near) 100% compatible, initially.

That is a bit of a silly statement to make.

[Einstein]

itix wrote:

Would be cool to send DOS packets from 68k application to x86 native filesystem via PutMsg() interface. I just hope user is not attempting to run old Amiga demo that takes control over system because when x86 filesystem responds to my DOS packet there is nobody left.

Oops.

How this is going to work, in real?

New instance ?

[Einstein]

tonyyeb wrote:

Einstein wrote:

Krusher wrote:
Right, well, I'll just have to wait for UAE integration. For me, Amiga is pre AmigaOS 3.9, and I love those silly demo's that go hardcore on the hardware. So for me it's a must that Aros is 100% compatible with ALL software out there.

I doubt it will be (near) 100% compatible, initially.

That is a bit of a silly statement to make.

hmm ? how so ?

[persia]

Einstein wrote:

tonyyeb wrote:

Einstein wrote:

Krusher wrote:
Right, well, I'll just have to wait for UAE integration. For me, Amiga is pre AmigaOS 3.9, and I love those silly demo's that go hardcore on the hardware. So for me it's a must that Aros is 100% compatible with ALL software out there.

I doubt it will be (near) 100% compatible, initially.

That is a bit of a silly statement to make.

hmm ? how so ?

Because it is starting from UAE?

[Einstein]

persia wrote:

Einstein wrote:

tonyyeb wrote:

Einstein wrote:

Krusher wrote:
Right, well, I'll just have to wait for UAE integration. For me, Amiga is pre AmigaOS 3.9, and I love those silly demo's that go hardcore on the hardware. So for me it's a must that Aros is 100% compatible with ALL software out there.

I doubt it will be (near) 100% compatible, initially.

That is a bit of a silly statement to make.

hmm ? how so ?

Because it is starting from UAE?

The point of the integrated (E)UAE is to run 68k AmigaOS apps in some integrated manner, to do this it must convert/translate certain resource requests and direct read/write to structures of these resources, back and forth.
Therefore I doubt it will be 100% campatible, not because it's impossible, but because knowledge of huge amount OS structure internals, and because many apps hit the OS structures directly (even if there are OS functions to do some, but far from all, of this). But like I wrote: initially. (it can offcourse be improved later)

[Kaminari]

MorphOS is a perfectly valid alternative to AmigaOS 4, as both of them mainly run on Classic PPC hardware. However I have to admit there's a serious difference between the two systems: one is free and the other is not.

[Everblue]

So will MorphOS be free for Efika?

[Matt_H]

Everblue wrote:
So will MorphOS be free for Efika?

From what I gather following threads at MZ, no, nor will 2.0 for Pegasos.

[Everblue]

Thought so - so let's stop calling MorphOS 'free', shall we  :-D

[Piru]

MorphOS 1.4.5 is free.