Nicholas Blachford just had a presentation posted to MorphZone. It’s aimed for ex-Amiga users and people who know nothing about MorphOS so it doesn’t go into technical details but lets you know the capabilities of the system and what it’s all about. There’s also .zip and .lha versions for download.
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This was such a great presentation. MorphOS will definately set new standards in modern Desktop computing.
– Control your hardware via Desktop elements
– Configure your hardware via Desktop elements
– Boot straight into your Desktop in no time
– Use powerful PowerPC applications and/or even native Amiga apps
– Benefit from all the Open Source ports across plattforms such as MPlayer, SDL and other nice things to come
– Benefit from an rapid growing community of enthusiasts and believers
– Amiga is not dead, it continues with the Pegasos
– Many standards known from Open Source and commercial solutions placed under one hood
– Low memory usage, fast loading and fast executing of Apps
– Bring together the good old Demo Scene + Professinal Computing
– Pure fun to use the system without fear being ripped off or your work being abused as in other communities
– Super cool hardware solutions with many expandable capabilities put under one hood
– Dead simple but yet powerful API to develop programs
– Cool MUI Toolkit that searches it’s kind, aesthetics, usability, flexibility all thought up from ground. It’s impossible to layout stuff incorrectly because of the way MUI works. Flexible plugins like system to add and remove Widgets or other GUI Elements + many 3rd party Widgets to use.
Go on, in 1 year MorphOS will be ahead of Open Source solutions (if not already) due to great Quality control of a professional team of developers.
Is the network stack ready yet? does samba work?
My pegasos I equals my amiga in collecting dust.
Hmm not quite as good as yours though.
There is only one Amiga. It’s not any more dead than it usually is.
Pegasos and MorphOS is a different product.
One is mature, has a proper user interface and is well designed, the other wants to become the core of STBs and tie in closely with your creditcard.
Now choose where you want to be in 2 years time.
And what kind of nerd are you to have failed to even *look* for a TCP stack? Why aren’t you running the GPL’d AmiTCP stack? How about Genesis? or MiamiDX?
Just because MorphOS doesn’t include a stack doesn’t mean there isn’t a stack.
… does these things comes with a modem? if not wut kind of modem? anyone that owns one of the these things “newer modle” mostly i’m talking about the hardware … how is the audio and such? that’s the issues with these computers you never know how they truely are till you spend a lot of cash in them and find out for your self. what is the chance that it will be really kewl and work great? the web-site can tell me that but LINUX web-sites tells me that as well but yet issues seems to pop up.
And who says he has more than the one computer?
If not, how will he get the TCP/IP stack on there?
Magic?
“Pure fun to use the system without fear being ripped off or your work being abused as in other communities ”
Now THAT is amusing. Especially when we think of the OS on the machine here. All it does is use other peoples’ technologies.
AmigaOS binaries, Warp3D etc..
The default MorphOS UI. The colours and style…
On the other hand, they have PCI-X slots which is great for Ultra 160 and 320 SCSI HDs.
*look* for a network stack? are you joking? why should I need to look for one? since 1997 or something, most *operating systems* actually shipped with a tcp/ip stack, that’s not something you should “get yourself” in my opinion.
MorphOS comes with a network stack, AMItcp. Helps to check before ranting.
I’m sure is really cool and all, but I can’t afford the US$618 for a pegasos board and CPU. 🙁
Of course, what I really would do is run Gentoo and MOL on it.
I did not read anything about it, but I seem to remember an add for MorphOS and that it ran on G3-processors. Do I remember right or wrong? Is it possible for me to install it on my PB G4?
Unfortunately not as long as the mos core team doesn’t obtain
information on proprietary apple ccompanions chips…
Withouth these docs, it will really take a lots of time until mos run
on a pple hardware.
Here, MorphOS runs fine on my peg2 G4 with AmiTCP IP stack
Thanks!
.. they cannot find from the PPC Linux source code or community?
Remember, studying the source code to find out what is going on, does not make your own work a derivative. MorphOS-developers are perfectly entitled to read the Linux source code, to obtain information about running MorphOS on Macs.
I would really like to see a comprehensive review of the Pegasos-II and MorphOS. The platform looks fun and interesting but a good point brought up by a previous poster was that after you spend $600+ only then do you find its a POS.
MorphOS comes with a network stack, AMItcp. Helps to check before ranting.
No it does not come with a network stack, it is advertised on the website but it is not on the 1.4 cd. Also missing is a working intstaller and a simple editor so setting things up is a little bit tedious.
“after you spend $600+ only then do you find its a POS.”
Aye. A friend of mine did exactly that. He’s just waiting for AmigaOS 4 to come out in beta form and he’s selling his Pegasos and getting an AmigaOne instead. At least he knows the OS is ok on that.
Unfortunately he’s not interested in running other OSs on it, so he just tries to get along with it till he can get the new board. I *did* warn him though, but he had to learn it the hard way. Oh well. Some people are happy with theirs, but some don’t feel the AmigaOS 3.1 experience with added colours measures up to other operating systems – not even AmigaOS 3.9.
@Smartpatrol
I would really like to see a comprehensive review of the Pegasos-II and MorphOS. The platform looks fun and interesting but a good point brought up by a previous poster was that after you spend $600+ only then do you find its a POS.
The previous poster won’t even be able to afford an AmigaOne, it’s more expensive than a comparably equiped Mac and slower.
The Pegasus and AmigaOne are aimed at geeks (like me) and “defender of faith” types. I doubt MorphOS is a POS. It’s probably just as good as Windows 95 (except with better drivers). IMO AmigaOS4 is gonna be just as good as MorphOS. Both are lacking basic stuff like memory protection, journaling FS, modern browser, etc…
Here is a user review:
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/samel/review2/peg2review.html
Here is the new Motorola link (G4 validation):
http://e-www.motorola.com/webapp/dap.detail.framework?CUSTOMER=1-1F…
…and the main IBM page is here:
http://www-3.ibm.com/chips/products/rfit/genesi.html
MorphOS 1.5 will be released this quarter and will include many new features and improvements.
We are getting there one step at a time.
R&B
Genesi
>Also missing is a working intstaller
Strange my Pegasos2/MorphOS machine did come with a working
install script. Also the original Installer is supplied
with those programs on the CD that need it for
compatibility reasons.
>and a simple editor so setting things up is a little bit
>tedious.
“Only” GoldED is supplied with the superbundle (for free)
and you are right it would be wrong to only call it “a
simple text editor” as it is much more powerful.
MorphED is not GoldED…
I can’t understand the people whining about missing editor. What have you used for the past 20 years when using Amiga ?
There is many good Editors out, Cygnused, TextED, Memacs, VIM, GoldED, MorphED …. and many more ….
http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/~aminet/aminet.cgi?string=text+editor
Quite often the one that comes with AmigaOS. Ed that is. Of course there was also Memacs and later TextPad.
You didn’t install Linux into the other partition I know you put on your HD? You’re not zooming around the net on Debian/Gentoo/Mandrake/SuSE/YellowDog? And you call yourself a Geek!
Since when did you have to be a linux geek to be a geek?
It’s better than biting the heads off chickens. That’s the only other option.
Most of them are 10 years old programs… Look, I have nothing against good old programs… But no one except GoldED which is NOT free allow color syntaxing !!
If only MorphED allowed to change colors of text/background properly…
btw, there is no MUI (developer-oriented) text editor.
Regards,
Leo.
Leo, there is also VIM for AmigaOS the last version Braam Moolenar (Author) ported was v6.1 before his Amiga broke down entirely. It’s one of the best Editors around for Unix like systems and the roots of VIM was on the Amiga. So go and use that one it’s perfect.
@Galaxy: I hope you’re kidding…
@+,
Leo.
Blacks Editor (BED) is the best text editor ever… 🙂