After two years of active development, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the free MorphOS 3D Update pack. This pack brings Warp3D and OpenGL(R) API compatibility to a whole new range of hardware including 3dfx Voodoo and ATI Radeon.
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The supply of "new" PowerMacs that use G3/G4 chips may indeed dry up in a year or two, except that there will be MILLIONS of them still in existence on the used market.
The number of Pegasos Systems doesn't even come close to the number of units Apple sold in one month, no less 10 years now...
And at the price these systems are selling for, they won't ever reach even a single percentage point in penetration.
Someone is going to have to figure out, that in order to sell more units, they are going to have to get the price down.
And that means either making a WHOLE LOT of them, in order to get economies of scale and sell some into the Linux Market...
Or, sell them at a bare minimum profit and try to make money selling complete systems with an OS.
It's a tough business competing against commodity hardware that is made in the thousands of pieces at a time.
Another thought is to talk to Microcode Solutions, and help them finish their PPC Co-Processor card for PC's.
Selling people one of those cards and a copy of the OS might also be a good solution.
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Trouble is, the supply of new PowerMacs is going to disappear in the next year or two. Also, there's an issue about technical docs needed to do a decent port, and support issues after the port has been made.
A source of new Pegasos machines will be available long after Apple has ceased to manufacture PowerPC kit. Likewise, shipments of AmigaOnes will continue - if the MorphOS team would consider a port (ooh the heresy).