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I know there was a lot of bad blood in the past. But at the same time I think you may be being a little over-sensitive IMHO.

While I personally have no gripes over MOS, I think that some people are still sensitive about the subject. Unless there is a really good reason, I see no reason to raise a subject that is likely to just upset some people.

If he had made a specific point, in a constructive way, then yes, maybe it would have been OK - but just going "MOS is better than OS4" (or words to that effect) does not seem a terribly sensible idea.

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The first thing I thought when I looked at MOS2.0 features and the video en screenshots was....

Damn ! If OS4 would end up dead in the water (still waiting for the courtcase to end) MOS is definately a good choice ! I might evn get a new system running MOS before this happens ! Along side OS4 and we'll see wich one gets the most attention over time....

Good work !! Realy !

Martin

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Damn ! If OS4 would end up dead in the water (still waiting for the courtcase to end) MOS is definately a good choice ! I might evn get a new system running MOS before this happens ! Along side OS4 and we'll see wich one gets the most attention over time....

I'm thinking this myself already too.

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I'd love to see a classic PowerUP version of this if at all possible as I never could get 1.4.5 running on any of my PPC equipped Amigas.

Good to see this finally released though, and it certainly packs in some nice features.

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I haven't found yet a PPC miggy with supported hardware that couldn't boot MorphOS.

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*HOW TO INSTALL MORPHOS IN YOUR PPC CLASSIC MIGGY*
Updated by Crumb on 29/05/2008

Download latest version from:
http://powerup.morphos-team.net/

points to keep in mind:
-create the partition in the first 4GB of the HD
-it's better to format the partition with FFS from AmigaOS3.1 or even
better,use Aminet's SFS. Don't use Jörg Strohmayer's SFS. It could
work with OS3.5/OS3.9 FFS but it could cause problems.
-Unpack the ISO in that partition. If you burn the CD using peecee
software be careful with filename length and executable attributes.
-Check out that all monitors located in devs/monitors have set the
"executable" flag. You can set it using icon information.
-Download the kickstart modules for paula sound and floppy disk from
the following address:
http://skolman-mws.w.interia.pl/mos/extmodules.lha
if you can't access those modules you can extract the modules by
yourself from your ROM3.1 (not an A500/A2000 one!) using the programs
Luciferin or REMUS.
-Copy the modules to boot/extmodules
-NEVER user ED nor MEmacs nor Notepad to edit MorphOS PowerUp
startup-sequence. Use CygnusED, GoldED or any editor that doesn't
trunk line length to 255 characters
-Modify your Startup-sequence and be careful with the following lines:
*Don't use real kickstart as it's useless because you only would like
to use disk drive and paula audio modules (and these modules are
already located at your extmodules directory). You must have this line
active:
set kickstart "nokickstart"
*The booting device should include the text
"bootdevice=yourpartition". I can't remember if it's mandatory to
include the two points at the end of the device name. E.g.:
set bootdevice "bootdevice=MorphOS-HD"
*You must set the resetlevel of your machine correctly. If it doesn't
boot with default resetlevel try values 3 for BlizzardPPC or 5 if you
own a CyberstormPPC. If it doesn't work try with higher ones.
*You will have to change last line so it references
"module1.rom.idehack" instead of "module1.rom". Of course, you could
also rename the files inside the boot directory so you don't have to
change the startup-sequence line.

-If you have some MAPROM options enabled MorphOS may not boot. If you
have problems you can try to disable MAPROM and special options.
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feel free for corrections

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CONGRATULATIONS to the MOS Dev Team !!!

Great news, at least...

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points to keep in mind: -create the partition in the first 4GB of the HD -it's better to format the partition with FFS from AmigaOS3.1 or even better,use Aminet's SFS. Don't use Jörg Strohmayer's SFS. It could work with OS3.5/OS3.9 FFS but it could cause problems.

I was using SFS, but I am fairly sure my partition was over the 4GB limit (not a lot I can do about that on the HD I have).

My problem with MOS was that after the reset, it never then goes on to boot it (even when trying to get it to boot just the CD). The images were burnt on a PC using Nero, and I have managed to get it to boot only 3 times in over 3 months of faffing around - the problem was that even though it booted once, the moment the machine was reset (Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga), it then refused to start again.

I was a little disheartened after that, as the brief play around of MOS I did have on my machine was promising, and I admit I liked the familiarity to AmigaOS that it retained whilst having its own identity.

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points to keep in mind: -create the partition in the first 4GB of the HD -it's better to format the partition with FFS from AmigaOS3.1 or even better,use Aminet's SFS. Don't use Jörg Strohmayer's SFS. It could work with OS3.5/OS3.9 FFS but it could cause problems.

My MOS partion is 10GB and starts after 20GB of the HD, I also use the latest SFS and never had any problems. Neither on my A1200 nor A4000T. But what problems can cause are some revisions of A1200 mainboards. I had one which MOS doesn't boot at all, I swapped the board and it fires up.

there is another video on youtube Morphos 2.0 Video
Nice to see 2.0 finally reach the "market" but for me its to late. My Peg1 died over a year ago and I dont want to buy another one. Make a Mac port and I will buy Mos2.0

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Well, How can install the MOS in my Efika? because in their web, they haven't much help, and ohter question is the price, very expensive, 111, euros now and 150 after, a price of 60-90 euros is good the other is a suicide, when the Amiga community we go many years giving money and much money.

Last edited by Templario on 03-Jul-2008 at 01:15 PM.

@Templario

http://morphos-team.net/installation.html

Efika:

* Download morphos-2.0-efikainstall.img and put it in the root directory of a USB mass storage device.
* Insert the USB device into a USB port on the Efika.
* Turn on your Efika.
* Press escape on the keyboard until you reach the Open Firmware prompt.
* At the Open Firmware prompt, type:
boot scsi:0 morphos-2.0-efikainstall.img
* MorphOS will now start booting. Once it is done booting, follow the on screen instructions.
* Please note that the default ISO download directory is ram: - however the ISO will not fit there. You must manually adjust the download path to match the partition you are installing MorphOS to.



What problems do you have?

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Since you want to wait for autumn anyway, maybe until then also the PPC Mac mini port of MorphOS 2.0 will be available?

Now I was about to ask if a "Project Mosana" was in the works and it looks like it is. For some reason these minis are popular for Amiga ports. Will we see AROS on the Mac-Mini next?

It looks like MorphOS is going places. While AmigaOS4 moves....zero degrees in all directions.

MorphOS runs also on some Macintosh PPC models, as some of the early development of MOS was made on Macintosh hardware.

It will costs only a few time and a few modifications for MorphOS to run on Macintosh PPC.

Also MorphOS has reported to run on INTEL X86 hardware, as some people in MorphOS team modified a version of QEMU to emulate Pegasos hardware, but I think that this last project was just a proof of concept made for fun...

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@Raffaele

Do you think that charging the same for the PegasosG4 version and the Efika version is fair??? Specially if we take into account the "creative" license scheme that doesn't allow you to transfer licenses between machines.

With a PegasosG4 you can use Linux and OSX to do stuff, but Efika Linux distributions simply suck because the machine is underpowered so for me it's a MorphOS machine that doesn't suit my computing needs.

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