macmini morphos

[kickstart]

This is not a hurry up for the morphos developers is just curiosity about the status of morphos for the macmini, if anyone knows something about it maybe want to comment anything here... thanks.

[zylesea]

It's progressing fine. The Mac Mini port currently lacks network and audio support. Thus, a while to go.
Last weekend it was publically demoed at Bad Bramstedt, e.g. a  1080p h.264 video fluently replayed by Mplayer was shown. It was also said to get rolled out as soon as possible, but there's no estimation *which* date it may be.

[Zorro]

Nice news, thanks !

Someone of the MOS Team is already working on these lacks or are there problems to find documentation for network and audio on the mac mini ?

[gaula92]

Wow! great news, indeed!!

[kickstart]

Thats great! Audio and network shouldnt be a problem i think, sound of macmini is ac87?

Thanks for the info =)

[Zorro]

kickstart wrote:
Audio and network shouldnt be a problem i think, sound of macmini is ac87?

From this linux on mac mini support page, it says...
Apple 10/100Mbit ethernet (Sun GEM) and "Apple intrepid audio"...

[Tron2k2]

That is cool!  My Mac, a 1.6GHzG4 with nVidia 6200 256MB graphics card, can't play 1080p video worth squat.  It just goes to show, the Mac OS is kind of a pig.  I use it, I like a lot of things about it, but with that much CPU, I shouldn't have the slowdown issues that I have, such as while typing this in, the periodic slowdown and hurried catch up of the cursor.  CPU monitor shows like 34 percent CPU usage, yet user input still stutters.

If only I could afford the MOS registration for the PegII.  But we're having a bit of a hiccup right now, they closed my wife's office so she's temping :-(  Temp gig=not enough money between us for toys right now.  Also lots of rain, which means not lots of bike shop customers.

Anyway, yes, I'd love to prime these Mac boxes with MorphOS instead.  All I need for that is a firewire stack, SATA drivers for my RAID card, and some iMovie like application so I can edit my videos occasionally.

Geez, it's descended from Amiga, you'd think it could do video ;-)  But I know, one thing at a time.

Thank MorphOS guys for this port!

[takemehomegrandma]

zylesea wrote:
It's progressing fine. The Mac Mini port currently lacks network and audio support. Thus, a while to go.
Last weekend it was publically demoed at Bad Bramstedt, e.g. a  1080p h.264 video fluently replayed by Mplayer was shown. It was also said to get rolled out as soon as possible, but there's no estimation *which* date it may be.

That is *truly* impressive! :-o :-D

BTW, I guess the MacMini was OC'd to 1.58GHz?

And was it a standard, public mplayer?

[tonyyeb]

Wow, this is sounding great. Will this be any good on a G3 iBook do we think? Driver issues i'm guessing will be the biggest problem.

[amigadave]

Maybe having MOS for the Mac Mini will motivate the Hyperion team to go back to work on the Moana project.  It could also do the opposite as they might not want to have a direct comparison of AOS4.1 to MOS2.1, or MOS3.0, unless the AOS team is confident that they have a better OS. (I probably should not have opened that door as the flamers are sure to pour in now).

Anyway, I for one would like to see both AOS and MOS running on the same hardware to see a fair comparison.  I doubt it will ever happen though.

The prospect of having so many new choices and potential for other new hardware to run AmigaOS and Amiga compatible OSes has never been better than it is right now.  Who would have thought two years ago that in 2008/2009 we Amiga users would have the problem of too many different choices for new hardware, SAM440ep, SAM440flex, EFIKA, MacMini, NatAmi, MiniMig v1.1, MiniMig-miniITX, GBA1000 DIY project.  That is quite a list for a supposed "Dead" platform.

What a great time to be an "Amigan"!  

[takemehomegrandma]

tonyyeb wrote:
Wow, this is sounding great. Will this be any good on a G3 iBook do we think? Driver issues i'm guessing will be the biggest problem.

AFAIK it's Mac Mini *only*.

But that's great anyway. They are small, have only a single CPU (which is perfect for the Amiga), ATI Radeon 9200 graphics (which is good since drivers exist), they are the cheapest of the G4 Mac's (very important feature IMHO), and they can run at very nice speed. Besides, they are very good looking! :-)

[zylesea]

@ takemehomegranda

The first MorphOS release with Mac support (most likely V2.3, V2.2 will come very soon and be for Peg & Efika) will introduce Mac Mini support only. But the developer is all open to extend support o more Macs, namely Radeon driven G4 notebooks. But it also depends on availability of developer maschines...

[takemehomegrandma]

zylesea wrote:
@ takemehomegranda

The first MorphOS release with Mac support (most likely V2.3, V2.2 will come very soon and be for Peg & Efika) will introduce Mac Mini support only.

Let's see whether they will call the Mac enabled version 2.3 or 3.0. I mean, 2.0 to 2.1 (Pegasos and Efika) upgrade was *free* for registered users, and I guess the 2.1 to 2.2 will be as well (like 2.x), but with the Mac an entire new HW platform is introduced, so...

But the developer is all open to extend support o more Macs, namely Radeon driven G4 notebooks.

Awesome! :-)

A laptop MorphOS system! Wow! :-)

But it also depends on availability of developer maschines...

What do you mean by that? It depends on some bounty system for hardware, or what?

Well, I'd chip in some for that! :-)

[TheMagicM]

zylesea:

is there a release date or a range for MorphOS support for the Mini?  Also, *ANY* G4 Mini will run MorphOS 2.3 or 3.0, right?

[_ThEcRoW]

Cool, definitely it's getting better for the minis  :-D