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| Posted on 27-Nov-2000 19:04 GMT by Christian Kemp | 57 comments
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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 Andy Hall on 27-Nov-2000 23:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 35 (Mark Olsen):
I don't agree with you that H&P blew their chance. As far as I can
see Amiga haven't let them (and others) do a PPC port of the AmigaOS
for one reson or another. Maybe they feel that if AmigaOS PPC is
released it would damage thier customer base for the DE.
MorphOS is a good concept, and Ralph should be commended for giving it
a shot. I wish him all the best. Whether or not I buy MorphOS
depends upon if it supports the SharkPPC card. This is the only PPC
solution I will consider, it is the only modern PPC solution that has
a decent price. I'm getting a mediator anyway becuase I just want a
CHEAP GFX card system. If the SharkPPC is good then I may get it. If
not, then I'm quite happy with my system as it stands, and my next
hardware purcase will be a PC.
This Elbox/DCE/MorphOS/Eyetech/H&P war is destroying whats left of the
market altogether. When they find they have no customers left they'll
know who to blame (HINT:it won't be each other) |
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