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Offline carvedeyeTopic starter

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Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« on: October 29, 2010, 05:13:26 PM »
Hi all ive just bought a fully working mac g4 (not a mini) with original keyboard, mouse and monitor. What i want to know is, is it possible to install amiga os 4.1 onto it ?

TIA
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2010, 05:27:48 PM »
Nop. You can use MorphOS 2.6 though...
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2010, 05:28:54 PM »
no there in no fully working official or otherwise version of AOS4.1 for mac mini.  MorphOS 2.6 is availiable though
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2010, 05:33:37 PM »
Noarrgh!
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2010, 05:51:41 PM »
So does the Morph OS  support any amiga software/games?
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2010, 05:57:39 PM »
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So does the Morph OS  support any amiga software/games?
Applications and games not hitting the amiga hardware (that is "OS friendly") work directly.
See here for instance http://morphos.lukysoft.cz/en/

If something doesn't work you can obviously use UAE to run those specific titles.
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2010, 05:59:29 PM »
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Hi all ive just bought a fully working mac g4 (not a mini) with original keyboard, mouse and monitor. What i want to know is, is it possible to install amiga os 4.1 onto it ?

TIA

Nope!

For the Mini (which isn't what you have), there is a thing called "Moana", by which I believe you could bring up OS4.0 (not 4.1.x though) to at least a running state (although I don't think there are driver support for all HW controllers?).  I have downloaded it myself, but never bothered to try it out...

For other kinds of Mac, you are completely out of luck. :(

Good news is that you could try out MorphOS (since beyond Pegasos 1 & 2 and Efika, MorphOS also supports eMac's (really cheap), Mac mini G4's (really small and powerful), Power Mac G4's (expandable, cheap and/or powerful), and soon PowerBook (laptop!) :)) completely for free!

:)

Edit: http://morphos-team.net/downloads.html

So what Mac do you have?
« Last Edit: October 29, 2010, 06:01:33 PM by takemehomegrandma »
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #7 on: October 29, 2010, 07:25:12 PM »
@carvedeye

When you have installed MorphOS on it, please consider checking out "Pack Ultimate" to really get going on the fly! :)
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2010, 08:41:15 PM »
It's sad that the answer to "can I run OS4" is so often "no, but Aros and Morphos work"

Come on Hyperion, support some hardware already!
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2010, 09:54:05 PM »
But then OS4 wouldn't be so l33t!
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2010, 10:28:26 PM »
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So does the Morph OS  support any amiga software/games?

If you are referring to OS 3.x software MorphOS probably runs this even better than OS 4.x.
MorphOS can run 68k code, WarpOS Code, PowerUp Code and of course MorphOS code. Also Warp3D apps run directly on the system using MorphOS 3D API Rave3D. A few OS4 apps run with the use of an OS4 compability wrapper. For hardware hitting stuff there is EUAE which emulates entie old Amiga systems. Ambient (the "workbench" of MorphOS) can launch adf files directly with an apropriate EUAE configuration (predefines A500 and A1200).
There is also a nice set of MorphOS games (And applications).
And the best of all: It is free to test. Just download the demo and play around with it directly from the LiveCD (or install it on HD). All you ned to test is a little time and an .iso file. the demo is not restricted except it slows massivle down 30min after boot up. Press reset and you have the next 30 time (you can do this as often as you want, you only need to register when you want to use it for more than 30 min w/o the need of a reboot).
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2010, 10:57:20 PM »
No, Amiga OS 4 still not, only MorphOS 2.5 and 2.6
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2010, 11:42:12 PM »
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And the best of all: It is free to test. Just download the demo and play around with it directly from the LiveCD (or install it on HD). All you ned to test is a little time and an .iso file. the demo is not restricted except it slows massivle down 30min after boot up. Press reset and you have the next 30 time (you can do this as often as you want, you only need to register when you want to use it for more than 30 min w/o the need of a reboot).


Absolutely. If it wasn't for the fact that I could try MorphOS for free I never would have even bothered with it. Within 10 minutes of trying it out I bought a license.
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2010, 02:31:02 AM »
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Absolutely. If it wasn't for the fact that I could try MorphOS for free I never would have even bothered with it. Within 10 minutes of trying it out I bought a license.


I can understand that. I looked at AOS4, but after installing MOS on a Mac I'm inclined to agree - its worth the license fee.
MorphOS works great, its a little faster than AOS4, and it has some pther advantages (mentioned by past posters) over the alternatives.

Really if you've got a Powermac, MorphOS worth condidering. Once I tried it, I decided to abandon OSX (my initial idea had been to dual boot the system).
Now, instead, I'm booting Ubuntu and MOS.
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Re: Apple Mac G4 and AmigaOS 4.1?
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2011, 10:44:49 PM »
Sorry guys (and gals) but i mean its an apple powerpc g4 :)
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