My MorphOS and PegasosII experience

[Coder]

Hi,

One thing that Morphos is lacking is a TCP/IP stack. I am not even sure if it will be in the next version. Having to manage with a 30 minute Miama demo is far from great.

Coder

[Damion]

There have been some strange "jumper" issues with newer Samsung drives
(in the PC world), try setting the drive as "cable select".

Also the Samsung "spinpoint" drives need to have the MBR cleared
or else they won't work right.

[Acill]

Wow Amidelf! after all the bad talk about the Pegasos you decided to get one! I sure wish I had the money to get one too. I think its a lot more advanced then theA1 is and MorphOS is way ahead of OS4 as well and will be for some time I think.

[Acill]

So amidelf tell me. Is this system just like using an Amiga? I hear it is. I am real close to selling off my A3000 to get a Peg II system. I still cant decide if I should wait for OS4 to come out for CSPPC.

Looks like MiamiDX is working fine and all the key files for Ibrowse and Miami work okay?

[AmiDelf]

Hey Acill!


Yes, this is the best Amiga computer I've ever used since Amiga 4000.

It's hard for me to say bye bye to my Amiga 1200 and Amiga 4000, but PegasosII gives me everything! Without no problem!

MorphOS is a amazing fast, it multitasks like AmigaOS and it works like it. It got MUI and is super, super fast.

Even the 600MHz G3 version is ennough for MorphOS. You don't really see the differences between G3 and G4. If running Linux, then yes.

I hope your'e all fine,...


Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

[Acill]

Hmm sounds like I just may get a new Peg II system soon. Anyone want to buy a super deked out A3000 for the cost of a Peg II?  :-D

[AmiDelf]

I am actually selling:

1. Amiga 1200 68030 40MHz, 260MB HD
2. Amiga 4000 PPC604e/060, MediatorPCI4000Di, Ariadne_II, DelfinaDSPz2, 60GB HD
3. PS2 8mb memcard, 1 controller, 20+ games
4. Dreamcast
5. PC AMD XP1800 1.46GHz, GeForce4 Ti4200, 256MB RAM, 120GB HD
6. PegasosII G4 1GHz motherboard with the latest MorphOS v1.4 CD


To have:

My PegasosII G3 600MHz and getting a second laptop PC Then my life will be oki, and more tidy


Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

[takemehomegrandma]

@ Coder

I bought the OS3.9 CD, which has some goodies on it, including a
registered version of Genesis. My Pegasos has been online almost
non-stop for some two weeks now. A native PPC stack would of course be
better for performance (and it would also be nice to have fully
working DHCP), but the JIT works fine, so ...

I hope a native stack is coming in MorphOS 1.5. That's what has been
said anyway, and I really hope that the package at least comes in on
par with MiamiDx when it comes to features ...

[Acill]

Does MiamiD work with MorphOS? I have a registered version of it I could use.

[AmiDelf]

Yes, I think so.

The Miami drivers is on the MorphOS CD, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

[Golem!dk]

Yes, Miami, MiamiDx & AmiTCP/Genesis all work, even the 68k version of Roadshow has been reported to work. A PPC native stack based on AmiTCP is expected to be included in MorphOS 1.5.

[magnetic]

Amidelf

 Nice review. Although it seems that the peg2 just doesnt like your hd. Slave devices work fine here. I have 4 ide devices on these boxes sometimes. My personal Peg2 G4 has a DVD Rom Drive - an LG 8161B 16x (Plays DVD nicely in MOrphos) a Samsung CDRW drive 48x write (burns CD's well with BurnIt for Morphos) I also have a Maxtor 40gb Diamond Max on Master Primary ide. Sometimes a put a Seagate 40gb baracuda as slave on Primary and the whole box works perfectly.

  @Acii

Selling your cool A3000 setup for a peg2 g4 will be the best move you could make! Its incredibly fast. Pretty much all Amiga software that runs on Cybergrafx runs on Morphos. Also there is TONS of Native MorphOS apps like

Mplayer - QT, DVD, VCD, Mpeg,Divx, etc media player
Kaya - Mp3/ogg player
Mencoder - DVD/VCD ripping mpeg encoding
LAME - Mp3 encoder
MlDonkey - Morphos port of the p2p edonkey client
Wget - wed address get from website
Papyrus Office - Morphos native Wordprocessor with M$ Word import!
Image FX 4.5 Studio - 68k with PPC extensions MOS version
BurnIt Pro - CD, CDRW, DVD Writing for Morphos

and much more:

www.morphzone.org

software section

Also legacy 68k Apps that work are many such as

Photogenics 5
ATC ftp
Ibrowse
YAM
Aweb
TvPaint
AmIrc
etc..

Also 3d PPC Games like Shogo, Heretic 2, Quake2, and more..

AND you can run Linux with Altivec support as well as Mac OS X with Mac On linux!

All this for under $700!

magnetic

[Targhan]

@Magnetic

Papyrus Office - Morphos native Wordprocessor with M$ Word import!
BurnIt Pro - CD, CDRW, DVD Writing for Morphos

You should note that these two applications aren't available to the public at this time.  However, he is correct that they are being worked on. (Yes, they really are being worked on, and they look pretty amazing.  Check MorphZone for some screenshots.)

@Acill
MiamiDX is reported to work just fine.  If you're using high-speed internet (dsl, etc), I would suggest using a router.  (I forced PPoE to work at one point, but it was very difficult.)

I got Genesis to work through Dial-Up, but was not successful getting it to run on high-speed.  (NetConnect-3 version of Genesis.)

[JKD]

Backup your hard drive(s)..sell your machine and don't look back.

The emotional relief of detaching myself from that ancient hardware (well CSPPC/CVPPC and A4000) was almost physical!

Awaiting my Peg II with great anticipation.

I ran all my old Amiga apps, keyfiles and all on my Peg I...no problems  :-D

Steve

[Hooligan_DCS]

I have 40gb Samsung and have no problems with it. I tested it with another (IBM) harddrive, plus HP cdrw, with both it worked just fine.

Seems like not many people have awfully lot bad words about Pegasos/MorphOS .. at least I haven't met many people saying so.

[Damion]

Seems like not many people have awfully lot bad words about Pegasos/MorphOS .. at least I haven't met many people saying so.

Personally I see it as the epitome of what the "amigascene" has been for
the last 10 years or so...definately not at all practical, and there are many
things lacking as opposed to mainstream platforms, but you can't beat the fun-factor.