I think OS4 CAN be run on MAC MINI (USABLE)

[Colani1200]

Zorro wrote:

The question is... "When ?"  :-D

The screenshot kind of answers that: When 3.0 is out...  :-)

[ZyBeR]

I tried the iso from piratebay on my Mac Mini today and I got it to boot up WB in the first attempt!

But I couldn't install it be course after WB had loaded my keyboard stopped working... and my mac mouse only have one button.
But it seams to be quite easy to get it working though

[BooBoo1200]

Guys can you list your ROM Revision for your Radeon 9200

[kickstart]

Wow this screenshot of morphos in mac mini is very cool, but morphos 3.0 will be released in years i think

@booboo1200

If ati radeon 9200 fails enought for make a fix, maybe this gfx card need to fail on linux or osx and in my case osx or liny dont show corrupted color screen.

[spihunter]

@Piru,

Stop messing with us!. that's not fair :lol:

[AndrewBell]

Piru wrote:
My Mac Mini config:

That isn't OS4 or OSX. Shame. Get another Mac Mini and try again.
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Free Xxx Movies

[BooBoo1200]

@booboo1200

If ati radeon 9200 fails enought for make a fix, maybe this gfx card need to fail on linux or osx and in my case osx or liny dont show corrupted color screen.

It doesnt work like that - It must have been very hard to make the Moana with mac hardware being so closed source and listing your ROM Revision could help rule out problems :-)

[ck007]

From what I believe, the latest ISO released contains the OS4 Final + July 2007 files overlayed with the bare Moana fileset.

So far we've tried the OS4 final ATI chip driver, the Moana ATI chip driver and Moana Safe ATI chip driver.

Somebody posted here a few months ago that they have a 32MB Radeon card in their Mac Mini, and received the black screen, but once they merged the files, they managed to get the screen working.

[BooBoo1200]

Would I be right in guessing the working Minis have the later ATI Radeon -ROm Revision 113-xxxxx-116?

[detz]

Reaaaally frustrating this whole situation isn't it? I mean, if OS4 was made to run on existing hardware like the Mac Mini, I'd buy a legitimate copy in a shot, and a Mini off ebay...

Ho hum....

[gaula92]

How can we tell the Radeon-ROM version in our minis, BooBoo?
Can it be updated? I tried the controller update for MAC OSX, but it doesn't seem to flash the ROM.. Any ideas?

[EDIT] WE CAN FIND OUR ATI RADEON ROM VERSION IN THE SYSTEM PROFILER.
Mine shows garbled graphics on OS4, and here are it's detalis:
ATI Radeon 9200:

  Modelo de chipset:   ATY,RV280
  Tipo:   Pantalla
  Bus:   AGP
  VRAM (total):   32 MB
  Fabricante:   ATI (0x1002)
  ID del dispositivo:   0x5962
  ID de la revisión:   0x0001
  Revisión de la ROM:   113-xxxxx-116
  Pantallas:
SyncMaster:
  Resolución:   1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz
  Profundidad:   Color de 32 bits
  Core Image:   Incompatible
  Pantalla principal:   Sí
  Duplicado:   Desactivado
  En línea:   Sí
  Quartz Extreme:   Compatible
  Rotación:   Compatible


PLEASE post the details FOR THE WORKING ONES, TOO.

[ck007]

Yep, mine is ROM Revision: 113-xxxxx-133

Is there any way for those on lower versions to flash their video BIOS?

BooBoo1200 wrote:
Would I be right in guessing the working Minis have the later ATI Radeon -ROm Revision 113-xxxxx-116?

[gaula92]

There's (THAT I KNOW OF) only thata official ATI updater for MAC OSX, but I tried it and my rom version hasn't changed...

It seems PC users have a flashrom utility to hach their cards for G4 usage, but it's obviously unusable from mac mini: other ideas?

[Hans_]

Ok, so it has been established pretty firmly that the pirate Moana ISO is the real thing, that it works on select setups, and that it still has a fair way to go before it would be a fully usable system. Now what? Unless the Moana authors get to finish it off, it's still of no use to anyone.

I suppose that the idea that it could work is promising, but it's still not of much use.

Hans

[gaula92]

It DOES work, Hans: there's a LOT of people there out using it. THE ONLY PROBLEM comes from an outdated ROM VERSION in our Mac Minis.
For me, it's "as soon as Amiga OS 4 runs on my mini, OSX can go hell".
And I repeat: IT'S usable, IT RUNS, and WE have to find a way to start using it in every Mac Mini with a PowerPC processor.

[jj]

Its not 100% from what ive been reading though.

Thought quite a few things ddidnt actually work on it, network and sound for instance.

Is there eveidence of people running apps and games and uae stable on these, andd system ffriendly  68k apps etc etc