MorphOS is out for MacMini G4! No cheaper Amiga available today!

[adolescent]

Are they still charging VAT to non-VAT countries?  I resisted registering my Efika for this reason.

[klx300r]

Yeah, I forgot! x86 pcs totally have the chipset and everything!

ya and MacMini's have the chipset too right?.....I run all my favourite 68k games great on my Samflex@800 running OS4.1 with glUAE so there's no reason why a quick PC running AROS should'nt run them too

[haywirepc]

I never knew that about the liscense. Thats a strange thing, wanna upgrade your computer? You have to pay us AGAIN.
 
Thats a bit strange and I never heard of that kind of liscense before.
This would give me second thoughts as I don't want to pay 225-250$ and then be stuck at one speed forever, that kind of kills my excitement for morphos right there.
 
The one thing I'll say is that I absolutely hate mac os but I've always thought a few of the macs, like the macg4 towers were slick looking.
I don't like mini anything, not enough room in there but if they had it working for 1ghz+ g4 towers, I'd probably buy a copy.
 
Steven

[Golem!dk]

I never knew that about the liscense. Thats a strange thing, wanna upgrade your computer? You have to pay us AGAIN.

Well... it means that you'd better find a buyer with an interest in MorphOS for your old hardware. It's certainly not ideal, but I guess there aren't many other ways to reliably avoid piracy or abuse of the licensing system.

[Argo]

Sales to Amiga users will be a pimple on the butt of all 2nd hand G4 Mac Mini sales. Scan your local Craigslist, I've seen some much better deals than eBay and no shipping costs or eBay/PayPal markup.

Craigslist is great, I guess, unless you live in the boonies like me.

[LoadWB]

Is "Holger Kruse" a verb, now?

[zylesea]

I never knew that about the liscense. Thats a strange thing, wanna upgrade your computer? You have to pay us AGAIN.

Not if you want to upgrade the computer, but if you want to switch the computer. I.e. get a PowerMac G4 1 GHz. Upgrade to 1.8 GHz later and it works. Plus, at least all 2.x updates are free! Other OS vendors charge with updates.

As said, the licensing scheme is not ideal, but currently the only way to avoid mis-usage of licenses (use one license on several maschines). I'd be happy if the fee was a bit lower, since I think more ppl would register then.
But if you calculate a bit it ain't that expensive. If you expect just 2.5 years of usage (I used my Pegasos for 7 years 2002-2009 as main MorphOS maschine) that is 5 EUR/month. My internet account is way more expensive... It is a thing of calculation and relation. Let's see if I will find this thread in spring 2012 to post whether my Mac mini with MorphOS was used 30 months (I noted the date and forum link in PolyOrga now)...

[Hell Labs]

ya and MacMini's have the chipset too right?.....I run all my favourite 68k games great on my Samflex@800 running OS4.1 with glUAE so there's no reason why a quick PC running AROS should'nt run them too

What's the point in even saying 68k games "work great" then? That's not a selling point. 68k amiga games "work great" on a mobile phone.

I like the idea of an open source amiga os, but it's failed to do what it set out to do, and what it set out to do became a very outdated idea, very fast.

[klx300r]

What's the point in even saying 68k games "work great" then? That's not a selling point. 68k amiga games "work great" on a mobile phone....

because that's important to me as both a classic owner and OS4.1 owner and I have owned many mobile phones and smart phones and 68k games work like crap on them !....nothing compares to good ol joystick in hand fun unless youre a teenager and used to playing around with your thumbs and a 2 inch screen :-)

[kolla]

Depends what you want to do. If you want to play 68K games, yup. If you want to use the latest PPC apps, nope. With UAE on a PC you are limited to OS3.9. MorphOS 2.X has progressed far beyond that.

Indeed it depends on what you want. I have two machines with MorphOS, but UAE is much more convenient since I can use it everywhere. The result is that I rarely find myself in MorphOS, but mess around with AmigaOS3.9 almost daily. Sadly for MorphOS there aren't really that many native apps for around that makes it so much better than UAE and 3.9. Also there's lots of quirks with MorphOS that I dont fancy at all, luckily the compatibility is good enough for many of the old 68k OS components to work.

[Hell Labs]

I bought a morphos machine, and got one with nothing wrong with it. Big mistake.

[redrumloa]

I bought a morphos machine, and got one with nothing wrong with it. Big mistake.

Huh

[Karlos]

Huh

I think a better response would have been "meh"

[redrumloa]

I think a better response would have been "meh"

Whoops! Wrong smiley, edited. I simply don't get the point, but I could be thick:)

[dreamcast270mhz]

What if you still have your key, but your Mac Mini gives up the blue smoke? My wife's new Mac Mini (x86) gave up the smoke after 1.25 years, so the reliability of 2nd hand machines can be of concern. Will your key work on another Mac mini?

@Red

Keep in mind the word X86, x86 macs are lower quality than ppc macs generally speaking. IDK about the MOS key, its dongled to the HW.

@ Thread
 
I now have a powermac G4 MDD 1.5 ghz (1.25 OC) with 512 meg ram and tiger on a 140gig HDD. Cost me about $60, and runs better than what I had, a P4 3ghz winxp pro 1GB machine. I'll probably upgrade to leopard when i get more ram, hack ilife 09 to run on it (change an address line in HEX) and put debian linux with hosted AROS and MorphOS 2.5 registered with a key ona CD and external HDD.

[Hell Labs]

I should explain. A broken machine would be more useful to me, because that way I could throw it in the bin without feeling guilty. As it is, I can't, because there's nothing actually wrong with it. The 128MB ram limit makes it totally useless as a computer, by design.