Living with MOS/AOS4/AROS only

[hbarcellos]

I found an old post of someone trying to use just an original A1200 for his day2day computing needs.
Anyone already tried that with MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.1 or AROS?

That would include iOS devices sync? Coding for a mainstream platform?

[spihunter]

I found an old post of someone trying to use just an original A1200 for his day2day computing needs.
Anyone already tried that with MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.1 or AROS?

That would include iOS devices sync? Coding for a mainstream platform?

I have thought about trying this with my MorphOS machine since it has the most up to date browser. (Not trolling!

The only things I would need would be:

-Browser that works with Gmail, Google docs.
-PDF reader (for resturant menu's )
- Movie player like VLC
-Bit Torrent clinet w/GUI
-Simple image editor


If they could port something like Virtual box that would take care of everything that doesn't run native.

[commodorejohn]

-Browser that works with Gmail, Google docs.
-PDF reader (for resturant menu's )

Is there a decent native mail client? You could just set GMail up for POP3 or IMAP use. (I doubt that'd help with Google Docs, though.)

My personal day-to-day consists mostly of text-oriented Internet, use of a plain text editor, and drawing - I'd be good for two out of three on my A3000, but I'd need a USB card and drivers for my Wacom (not to mention a quality image editor) for the drawing. Still, be interesting to try sometime.

[krashan]

I found an old post of someone trying to use just an original A1200 for his day2day computing needs. Anyone already tried that with MorphOS, Amiga OS 4.1 or AROS?

Sure. I do it regularly. My everyday computer needs may be a bit unusual however...

That would include iOS devices sync? Coding for a mainstream platform?

It happens that I neither code for a mainstream platform nor own any iDevice.

[spihunter]

Is there a decent native mail client? You could just set GMail up for POP3 or IMAP use. (I doubt that'd help with Google Docs, though.)

My personal day-to-day consists mostly of text-oriented Internet, use of a plain text editor, and drawing - I'd be good for two out of three on my A3000, but I'd need a USB card and drivers for my Wacom (not to mention a quality image editor) for the drawing. Still, be interesting to try sometime.

MorphOS has Simplemail & YAM for email. They both look like they could handle it.

As far as an Image editor, does anyone know if the 68k version of Art Effect run on MorphOS?. I remember this program was pretty nice. I still have it here somewhere.....

[runequester]

It'd be a fun experiment.
If you aren't a hardcore internet person, you should be fine

Sadly, my 1200 is out of commission right now

[nasty]

MorphOS has Simplemail & YAM for email. They both look like they could handle it.

As far as an Image editor, does anyone know if the 68k version of Art Effect run on MorphOS?. I remember this program was pretty nice. I still have it here somewhere.....

Yip, art effect works fine.

[Ruud]

I use MorphOS at home as my main OS.  I can go several weeks without needing to use anything else.  However work is a different matter as the software I need is of course not available for Morphos.

[hbarcellos]

And how good is the best browser available?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origyn_Web_Browser

It is based on webkit. Why it's not as good as safari or chrome?
Why it can't render google documents or gmail?

[spihunter]

And how good is the best browser available?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origyn_Web_Browser

It is based on webkit. Why it's not as good as safari or chrome?
Why it can't render google documents or gmail?

I'm not sure if it works with Gmail or Google docs?. I'll have to try it out this weekend and see. Maybe I'll try everything on my list there and see how it goes....

[Fab]

And how good is the best browser available?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origyn_Web_Browser

Depends on the port. The 3 versions of OWB for MorphOS, AROS and OS4 are all very different in features or stability.

It is based on webkit. Why it's not as good as safari or chrome?
Why it can't render google documents or gmail?

Who said it couldn't work with google docs or google mail? It can.

[hbarcellos]

ah, and BTW, I have a powermac 933 with 1.5gb of RAM, but, unfortunately with a Radeon 9600 XT. As rv300 will only/mabye be supported in the future, how well MorphOS 2.7 works without 3d acceleration? I should give it a try just after I submit my new iOS game to the App Store!
BTW2, the new game uses shadow of the beast parallax inspired graphics (for the menu) *PS* I paid! a Swedish designer to completely redraw it!!! and a Workbench 1.3 inspired window as "about box"

[XDelusion]

This post just about describes me. I only use windows for my Doom and Media editing needs for the most part.

[phoenixkonsole]

OWB can handle google docs. At least on MOS and the AROS Version.
I asume OWB for AmigaOS can do it too.

MOS, AmigaOS 4 and AROS with use of AmigaForever can utilize classic applications like Art Effect, Lightwave, Amiga Writer and so on.

On AmigaOS 4 you can also use some Linux apps... MOS has a very good port of Blender (well Amiga OS too but i feel that MOS is more stable and snappier than AmigaOS 4).

Personally i can do all i need for consuming and playing around with AROS.
AROS+ AMC runs on my HTPC in the living room.

I have an AresOne 2010 on my desk and a Lexmark Laser to my right : )
Art Effect works really snappy on JanusUAE. Google docs is fast at least since Broadway 0.0.5 : D
Musicians can play with Audio Evolution, Protrakker and others and classic Amiga Software.
Lightwave is really enjoyable and we are enjoying to render models created on an Windows Workstation on JanusUAE : D -just for fun

For Imaging (native AROS) you can use for example graphx 2 (offers layers)
With lunapaint and those tools: http://portacall.org
you can create also nice animations.
Than there is also Lodepaint and a few others.

There is much to play with.

The most polished option is MorphOS, AROS is the fastest, AmigaOS 4.x the official successor.

[XDelusion]

I have an Aspire One, and while I am growing fond of Aros, I can not deny that MorphOS is light years ahead. And I've also heard that it is snappier than OS 4, but can not confirm this.

Also for the note, there are a slew of classic Amiga apps that run just fine on MorphOS without being bothered by the lameness that is UAE.

Not trying to start a flame war of course, I just want MorphOS' many strengths to be known so more people might give it a look. It's awesome!