The MorphOS development team is proud to announce the immediate availability of MorphOS 3.10, which represents one of the biggest updates in its history yet. This brand new version introduces support for AmigaOne X5000 systems as well as A-EON X5000 mainboards, and it greatly expands the general hardware compatibility by adding numerous new drivers for graphics cards, scanners, network cards, SATA controllers, and USB audio devices.
Furthermore, MorphOS 3.10 brings Flow Studio, which is an integrated development environment that offers features such as a built-in source level debugger and seamless MorphOS shell access.
In addition to many bug fixes and general performance improvements, MorphOS 3.10 also provides varied user interface and usability improvements. This release includes modern themes, new fonts, and support for vector graphics, such as SVG icons, as well as time zones via Coordinated Universal Time.
This is a huge update, and it contains so many improvements I don’t even know where to start. The massive list of hardware compatibility improvements is incredibly welcome, as are the brand new themes which make MorphOS look a bit less dated. Be sure to read the full, detailed list of changes.
This is definitely the release that finally pushed me to get a PowerBook G4 to run MorphOS on (preferably the 17″ 1.67Ghz with DDR2), since this release really reaffirms that the team is 100% dedicated to the operating system. I can’t wait to go used PowerBook shopping this week.
I’d love to try this out but with such limited hardware support (e.g. no intel), it’s a no go here.
It is a powerpc operating system, i do not think there are any plans for x86, there is AROS for x86 instead if you like to try that.
You’re correct, but that’s kind of a shame. Since it really only works on outdated hardware, eventually there will be a time when it cannot be run at all without emulation. It’d be in their best interest to at least begin to make their codebase modular enough for eventual porting to new platforms if they’ve not done that already. Either that or build, market, and sell a PPC-based system to run it on.
There is a vague roadmap for a switch to x64. But it’s not on schedule for the closer future, rather for a some bit future.
As of now it’s, mainly for historical reasons, ppc only. Unfortunately. Then again the old Apple kit is of nice quality and design and dirt cheap to get. As weird as the comarison is somehow a Mac mini G4 is about the same league (price and cpu power (not literally, but gross estimate)) as a Raspberry Pi is.
MorphOS works nice and is pretty polished. Main audience is ex Amiga users – as AmigaOS is the heritage it comes from.
A few years ago I wrote a 5 minute reading article about MorphOS to get an idea about it (albeit a few years old it’s still rather valid):
“What is MorphOS?” -> http://via.i-networx.de/wim.htm
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Another advantage of the Apple hardware is that it is slowwer than new x86 (stay with me here) because it forces the developers to make more optimized code.
OSX 10.5.8 really struggles with rendering web-pages. MorphOS does not.
Now now, that’s hardly an Apples to Apples comparison. Then again, OS X Leopard wasn’t exactly fast in its prime, and naturally it would struggle given that it’s a decade out of date–a decade being forever considering it’s the web. I do agree with your point though, less resources requires more efficient coding.
MorphOS had some serious issues with intensive browsing… / did they fix the “super slow when no more vram” bug? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvmWIqqRR-g )
I have the Powerbook 1.67 with an OWC 400gb SSD and maex out 2gb ram. Works like a charm.
I still dual boot (but rather rarely) though so i can use mac office.
Has syllable os been put on hold I noticed the website is down.
I just realized this should work on my old PowerMac G4 which – ironically enough – is sitting in storage next to my old Amiga. Must try this out ASAP.
It has been said by the devs quite a while ago that there will be a move to x86 in the future. How far in the future is anyone’s guess but at least it’s been considered.
I run Morph OS on a Mac Mini G4, probably the cheapest option, with a thrift store monitor, mouse and keyboard. An issue was that the Morph OS version of the Odyssey browser could not run GMail, so you had to use a mail app.Hopefully this has improved as well.
Not a gmail user myself, but at least other google services used by myself are working again with the current release.
Its amazing the progress aros has made i know the big issue is very little funding compared to linux
MorphOS is not related to AROS.
AROS progress is pretty slow, IMHO.
Well MorphOS uses parts of AROS, so there is some relation: http://aros.sourceforge.net/documentation/users/faq.php#what-is-the…
And having watched MorphOS for many years I can’t say either of them are especially rapid in the development; but at least AROS started out by design as not being tied to a specific CPU architecture (or endianness). IMHO The MorphOS team should have known better when they started.
Every few years I bring this up and someone will point to something said by a MorphOS team member about the x86/x64 port… and yet nothing visible seems to have happened.
The solid line between AROS and MorphOS on this graph https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AmigaOS_3_and_clones.svg means there was some code sharing between the two…
They both are related to amiga os
I have no idea what it is for in my life. AmigaOS compatibility for a couple of games? Well I can run UAE as well as the next person.
It’s too expensive to just try out, and I deeply dislike their pricing scheme.
It’s great that it is fast and resource lean… except that it is fast and resource lean on old and/or expensive hardware. I want something fast and lean on modern hardware.
It doesn’t have most of the software I need to work… or play.
They need a compelling story that isn’t just We are AmigaOS Adjacent
It feels like there was an opportunity to be what ChromeOS is doing, a lightweight OS for low end computers. But that would require them to actually have finished an x86 port years ago.
Why should I use it?
They had time-limited demo version, it should be enough for that…
Downloaded the ISO image and unsuccessfully tried it with multiple VM/Emulators (of course with PPC support). No luck so far.