http://www.osnews.com/story/20261/MorphOS_2_1_Released_Mac_Mini_Port_Progress Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 26 May 2013 04:58:13 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?329464 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329464 Umf...
I tried the Morphos 2.0 CD 1.5 months ago, and it wouldn't work properly on my Pegasos (with ATI Radeon card, 128 MB RAM -- machine sent by the original company directly, i didn't put it together myself). It would load fine, but JUST at the time that it would switch to high-res for the graphical installation screens, the CRT monitor would go out of sync. It's a 1280x1024 85Hz monitor (capable of 1600x1200 at 60 Hz too), and never had such problems with it with any other OS. But Morphos 2.0 just didn't work, and I am not sure if this bug is actually fixed on 2.1 before I invest more time download it and try it. Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329482 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329482 is more or less finished, why are they just sitting on it like this? Also, if they have something that runs on a Mac Mini G4, I wonder how hard it would be to scale up to either an iMac G4 or a PowerMac G4... Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (madcrow) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329501 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329501 Updeated 2.1 over 2.0 on my efika. Seems to be going ok. I dont plan on registering it tho, way too much money.

I did have mondo trouble getting it to go at 1680x1050 as it did not like my montiros DDC and had to boot up with the bootmenu option. working good now.

really feeling the screen redraws with the radeon 9250 128mb 64bit card tho at that res.

its interesting but not worth the price. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (_df_) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329505 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329505 I have an old eMac I can get my hands on as my brother-in-law doesn't use it anymore. (He finds Vista "Better coz it plays games"!)

I dunno the spec of it, just that it was the last G4 eMac that Apple produced.

Any good for MorphOS? Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:55:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AbuHassan) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329506 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329506 It seems it could be!

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/emac/stats/emac_1.42.html Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:00:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (AbuHassan) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329511 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329511 what's the "bootmenu option"? Sun, 07 Sep 2008 05:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329515 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329515 New feature of MorphOS 2.x. By pressing F1 or LMB during startup, you'll get into Amiga-like boot menu, where you can change some basic settings. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (strim) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329533 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329533 its something like bm or bootmenu they added it in 2.0

so you can bootlike

boot hd:0 boot.img rd rds 0 bm Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (_df_) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329540 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329540 Just pack your PegII and ship it to Thom already. Give it to someone who cares and can actually install MOS. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:24:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bardopookie) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329541 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329541 I'd love to have it, but uhm, shipping a large computer to The Netherlands is rather expensive both on the sending (shipping costs) as well as the receiving (import taxes) end.

Too bad. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329543 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329543 The latest idea is to give it to the local Computer History Museum here in the Silicon Valley. I guess it will have to be Morphos 1.0. It's not my fault if the Morphos guys can't get their monitor detection right.Edited 2008-09-07 15:02 UTC Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329553 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329553 Would you donate the machine to a developer if shipping was paid? That would be best for the community. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bardopookie) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329554 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329554 If CHM won't accept it, then yes. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329562 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329562 If MorphOS could be made to work on Apple Hardware (not just the G4 iMac), I have 3 B&W G3 computers that would love to run a modern OS. I have several Beige G3's that would love it also.

It's easy on eBay to get G3 and G4 upgrades for those computers if horsepower is a problem. I just haven't bothered since 10.5 and above won't work on them, and it's only a matter of time before PPC 10.4.11 is no longer a supported platform for apps.

But, this old Apple hardware is at least as good as an Efika board, and the older Pegasos boards.

I hope someone ports MorphOS to them. I'd buy at least one copy to try it out.

I'd be willing to commit to buying a copy in advance if it would convince someone to port it. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mage66) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329578 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329578 Yeah, I agree with that. I've got an iMac G3 DV+ with 1GB of ram I normally run Ubuntu on, but I'd switch to MorphOS in a second if it ran on it. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JLF65) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?329601 http://www.osnews.com/thread?329601 What do you mean it won't run on them? Which CPU's are you looking at?

10.5 runs as long as the G4 is 866 MHz and above.

There is also a trick that will help.

Take a drive and put into a Mac (or run it from a FW port) that is within specs. Install 10.5 on the drive, and then put that drive into the slower machine.

Works every time! Just make sure it isn't too slow, or you will be disappointed.

No G3's though. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (melgross) Comments