[News] Ralph Schmidt interview | ANN.lu |
Posted on 27-Nov-2000 19:04 GMT by Christian Kemp | 57 comments View flat View list |
christophe Decanini noticed there's
an interview (in French
and (English)
with Ralph Schmidt of MorphOs fame on on AmigaImpact.
He also provided a summary (read more below).
- Limited (68k) support of mediator if no use of MMU tricks.
- Support of G-REX hardware (G-REX software is done by MorphOS team).
- Eyetech products support will be decided once available.
- Elbox did not contact Morphos team and MorphOS team do not think a lot of PPC owner will adopt mediator.
- MorphOS team members are part of Bplan, MorphOS will run on Bplan hardware. There will be an announcement early december.
- Morphos need to be working stable on CyberstormPPC and Blizzard PPC to be sell as a commercial product then MorphOS will be hardware independent to run on new bplan hardware. Perhaps it will also run on Macintosh. No X86 port expected.
- Recompiling a warpup application is the only way to run it on MorphOS.
- Name of developers for MorphOS application will be anounced in december.
- Not decided yet on how MorphOS will be sell. OEM, from Vapor online web or from other distributors.
- MorphOS team could adopt the type of developpers structure Vapor is using today.
- A third beta version of MorphOS should be out in next weeks with PPC version of MUI, YAM, CED, MagicMenu, AmiTCP, ADE. All PPC users should try it and give feedbacks to enhance MorphOS.
I did not verify every point of this summary, please visit the original in case of any doubts.
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Posted by Mark Olsen on 27-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 15 (Ralph Schmidt): > >give me a good reason why I should give you money for MorphOS?
> >how will it benefit me and my ppc card?
> >You saying your emulation is better than the $300 I spent on my 060 cpu?
> Not the currrent one...no
I must disagree with you, Ralph.
As I understand it, the 68k emulation should only be used as a bridge to get all the 68k programs to work right away. The main advantage is that you can finally make a 100% PPC app, as 68k<-->PPC context switches aren't slow. I really don't care that much if the 68k emulator is slower or faster than my 040, all I care about is getting some more PPC apps with FULL speed. |
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