| [News] MorphOS feature list out | ANN.lu |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 1 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Alkis Tsapanidis on 11-Dec-2002 15:11 GMT | | Christian, could you please add a link to MorphOS news? I forgot it. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 2 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Man on the moon on 11-Dec-2002 15:36 GMT | Okay, got it, nice full-of-nothing .pdf.
Now, where the hell I can buy the cd, so that I can try by myself if I'm finally able to fix the clock/date on my a1200?? |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 3 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Daniel Allsopp on 11-Dec-2002 15:37 GMT | Well that's me decided then!!
PPC MUI, CyberGraphX, AHI and best of all Ambient is based on MUI!!! How good looking is this system going to be out of the box!!
This morning is was going to be AOS4.0, now it's MorphOS :-) |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 4 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by David Scheibler on 11-Dec-2002 15:37 GMT | In reply to Comment 2 (Man on the moon):
The pdf file seems not to work with APDF v2. Use v3 instead or read the text
version provided at morphos-news.de |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 5 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by DaveW on 11-Dec-2002 15:43 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (Daniel Allsopp):
Well thats decided me, Ambient based on MUI, how ugly is this going to look out
of the box.
This morning MorphOS, this afternoon AmigaOS4. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 6 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Jack Me on 11-Dec-2002 15:46 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (DaveW):
I'm with you.:) |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 7 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Daniel Allsopp on 11-Dec-2002 15:47 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (DaveW):
Ha, well IMHO MUI looks ten times better and is a hell of a lot more configurable than ReAction will ever be!
It's also a hell of a lot easier to create applications using MUI than with ReAction.
Just my opinion though!! :-) |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 8 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 11-Dec-2002 15:49 GMT | Whow, impressive list.
Does "graphics library: true color" mean that one can finally forget the pen system ? That would be fantatsic. I'd love to do SetAPen(rast, rgb) and then render with that color, ie. Text() etc. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 9 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by DaveW on 11-Dec-2002 15:55 GMT | In reply to Comment 7 (Daniel Allsopp):
Well spoof posting aside, the MUI used in MorphOS might be a hell of a lot
better than the MUI that I know and despise.
In fact I find both Reaction and MUI irritating from a developer perspective
but MUI also irritating from a user perspective.
Yep, subjective all right! :-) |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 10 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Piru on 11-Dec-2002 15:58 GMT | In reply to Comment 8 (Anonymous):
> Does "graphics library: true color" mean that one can finally forget the
> pen system ?
Yes.
> That would be fantatsic. I'd love to do SetAPen(rast, rgb) and then render
> with that color, ie. Text() etc.
Yep. This is exactly that, though you use new tags with SetRPAttrA. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 11 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by anonymous on 11-Dec-2002 15:59 GMT | "ABox is a multithreaded application running as a Quark process with its own memory sace. It contains a PowerPC native heavily extended reimplementation of the OS known from your Commodore A500, A1000, A1500, A2000, A3000, A3500, A3500T, A4000 and A4000T systems."
Interesting how the word 'Amiga' isn't mentioned in the document. Don't products beyond reproach usually just include trademarks? |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 12 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by cOrpse on 11-Dec-2002 15:59 GMT | Ah , so a bunch of 3rd party apps and an amiga emulator .. Amazing.
I could install all that under amithlon and run it 20 times faster on
hardware that cost half as much .. All thats missing is a camp purple
desktop. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 13 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Bladerunner on 11-Dec-2002 15:59 GMT | | Wow, that really rocks!!!!!! |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 14 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by JoannaK on 11-Dec-2002 16:01 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (DaveW):
Biggest irrtation of MUI I remeber (used years ago) was that it was allways Demoversion (not worth registering IMHO) so I could never get those MUI programs to look/behave way I wanted. I now hope MOS people have made deals to there base program coders (Poseidon, MUI, Amitcp, Turboprint) that those would be bundlend full versions with OS...
We have had enough of these 'demos' like Miami/dx on OS3.X and Poseidon on Elbox-usb.. No more those, please. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 15 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Piru on 11-Dec-2002 16:02 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (cOrpse):
No. We don't feed you. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 16 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by DaveW on 11-Dec-2002 16:05 GMT | In reply to Comment 14 (JoannaK):
It was always so sluggish - especially list box refreshes. But then those
that used it always went over the top. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 17 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by lakeside on 11-Dec-2002 16:07 GMT | Now WHY THE HELL can't we get a list like this for OS4.0??? HELLO BEN/AMIGA INC???!!!?? Even if you don't like MOS you can't help but be impressed. I know I am! Details, details, details. That's all we want!!!
• Core OS
• OS Components
• 3D Graphics Support
• Applications / Utilities
• Miscellaneous
• specific software
• Appendix |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 18 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by DaveW on 11-Dec-2002 16:10 GMT | In reply to Comment 17 (lakeside):
There is a list that covers most of that online, and which has been linked
to god knows how many times.
But, well perhaps we will have to wait as long after the release of AmigaOS4
as we did after the "release" of MorphOS1.0 to get a PDF covering it in the
format you want. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 19 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by IanG on 11-Dec-2002 16:15 GMT | This looks quite impressive, in all fairness. I've never been a MOS fan, largely due to the attitude of some of the developers, but I have to say this looks nice.
OTOH, just how different is this to the OS4 feature list in reality (if we had one)? I mean, claiming Turboprint and other 3rd-party emulated apps as part of the OS is unfair, UNLESS OS4 is *unable* to use TP or PFS etc.
How compatible is this OS to the real AmigaOS? How many 68K emulated exe's really work? What are the limitations? I ask because, regardless of enthusiastic hobbyist coders, the real future (if there is any) of this or any other Amiga related platform is going to be built on what software is available to run on it NOW. That means, sadly, emulated stuff for a good while yet. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 20 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 11-Dec-2002 16:21 GMT | > Over half a dozen types of birds ... shoot birds
This MorphOS features list is almost a bit too detailed ;-) But to stay in character, how many birds will AOS4 have ? |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 21 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Gabriele Greco on 11-Dec-2002 16:24 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (DaveW):
MMMh, from a developer point of view, if you find MUI irritating what GUI system do you like?
I actually use almost daily GTK at work and it's quite powerful, anyway I often miss the semplicity and flexibility of the C macros that let you define at hand a MUI gui with very few lines of code.
No builder (Visual Studio + MFC, QT + QT Designer, GTK + Glade...) it's enough flexible for compex GUIs, without external code. I've had a lot of headaches to find out what code to write to implement a particular GUI effect not provided by the toolkit (typically the problems are with dynamical interface changes)
MUI had a poor builder, MUIBuilder, useful only for fast prototyping, but it's cleaner and faster than the GUI libraries I listed when you have to write your GUI code at hand.
The main point against MUI WAS it was slow, now MUIPPC flies on my poor 604e/180mhz... I'd really like to have an easy to program, good looking and light interface library, like MUI is, on Linux & Windows to use it for the programs I write at work....
Bye,
Gabry |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 22 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by JoannaK on 11-Dec-2002 16:29 GMT | In reply to Comment 19 (IanG):
I think you need to take concern that most of those things mentioned on list are Native-PPC-MOS softwares (like new MUI and Poseidon- usb stack for example..).. I don't know about current release status of turboprint though.. But I have this feeling that putting it into list would suggest Bundled (fully working) native version. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 23 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Kronos on 11-Dec-2002 16:29 GMT | In reply to Comment 19 (IanG):
>I mean, claiming Turboprint and other 3rd-party emulated apps as part of the OS is unfair,
>UNLESS OS4 is *unable* to use TP or PFS etc.
You mean like claiming IB2.3 (which will be 68k-only) as part of OS4 ?
The filesystems and so ARE allready in PPC, and I don't see any reason why TP shouldn't
be recompiled for PPC. And just if you didn't get it TP will be included/bundled with
every copy of MorphOS. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 24 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 11-Dec-2002 16:31 GMT | In reply to Comment 17 (lakeside):
Because no such list exists for OS4. Because the programmers still aren't /exactly/ sure what will or won't be included in OS 4.0. They've said as much on the OS4 Yahoo list. PCI Drivers? They don't know. 3D support? Probably not much. USB? Don't know. Filesystems? Yes, PPC. Which? Don't know. Hopeless.
Also because OS4 is a long way from release still. The first "earlybird" systems may be delivered in the UK by Christmas (I doubt it, but it could happen) but you won't be running OS4 on your A1 until Easter 2003 at best. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 25 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 11-Dec-2002 16:34 GMT | | Nice! When will we see a featurelist of this magnitude for OS4? |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 26 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by DaveW on 11-Dec-2002 16:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 21 (Gabriele Greco):
"MMMh, from a developer point of view, if you find MUI irritating what GUI system do you like? "
Hmmmmm very good question. I like Motif 2 a lot, I liked PM on OS/2. I don't
like Swing,AWT,JFACE2000 or Eclipse, all of which in my view are wrong turnings.
None stand out, for me the non irritating GUI development route probably hasn't been invented yet. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 27 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by itix on 11-Dec-2002 16:38 GMT | In reply to Comment 19 (IanG):
In general every RTG-compatible multitasking software should work.
But:
- BCPL programs wont work
- MMU hacks wont work
- Software accessing custom ships wont work (except on BPPC/CSPPC systems)
- Software accessing undocumented OS functions/structures mostly wont work
- System patches (MCP, Executive etc.) are not recommended
Some libraries must be updated to native PPC versions (ixemul.library) |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 28 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Tarkowski on 11-Dec-2002 16:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 4 (David Scheibler):
Hmmm, can't seem to find aPDF 3 on Aminet or the APDF website - would this be a beta version perhaps? |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 29 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Peter Gordon on 11-Dec-2002 16:46 GMT | In reply to Comment 27 (itix):
> - BCPL programs wont work
I find that hard to believe. Surely, under 68k emulation at least, dos.library still returns BPTRs where appropriate, otherwise you'll break pretty much all compatibility with AmigaOS 3.x (programs will be needlessly multiplying pointers by 4, and then crashing). |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 30 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by volm on 11-Dec-2002 16:49 GMT | Hi,
Please (begging) don't turn this into a MUI discussion. :-) When I still used my 060/pIV Amiga I quite enjoyed MUI. I'm not a MorphOS user, but I can imagine how MUI PPC would fly on the Pegasos. I can imagine how it's just "there", rock solid(?) and, as Ambient is multithreaded, very responsive. Now that'd be something to enjoy.
MorphOS is, imho, looking better and more consistent for each announcement that is put out about it. I'd like to know more. If I ever find the money for one, I think I might just buy a Pegasos and start coding stuff for MorphOS.
Sure, it does appear as a "package" of MorphOS core components and then some contributed/licensed software to fill the gaps that Genesi didn't manage (want to) to work out themselves yet, but on the other hand we'll just have to remember that: a) so does AmigaOS 4.0, and b) out-sourcing is not necessarily a bad thing.
- volm |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 31 of 150 | ANN.lu |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 32 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by X on 11-Dec-2002 16:50 GMT | That's a rather refreshing read!
Not any FUD/arguing/moaning/bullshit but
just nice specs :)..
I must say I'm rather impressed that they've
bundled TurboPrint7. Clever move! I hope it's
the full version... Easy printing right out
of the box! |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 33 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by coldfire on 11-Dec-2002 16:55 GMT | In reply to Comment 7 (Daniel Allsopp):
And the nice thing is that now with fast G4 processors MUI will actually be fairly usable. God it sucked on 68040.
coldfire |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 34 of 150 | ANN.lu |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 35 of 150 | ANN.lu |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 36 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by JoannaK on 11-Dec-2002 17:02 GMT | In reply to Comment 32 (X):
I checked this Turboprint issue from 'piru' itself. It's FULL version. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 37 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Piru on 11-Dec-2002 17:02 GMT | In reply to Comment 29 (Peter Gordon):
Peter, you do realize difference between BPTR and BCPL?
BCPL is a language, BPTR is a pointer type from BCPL.
BPTR is just a pointer type, not the language itself.
Removing BCPL support does *not* mean that that all BPTR are magically turned into APTRs.
Yes, BPTRs are still BPTRs like before, but BCPL apps don't run (they display warning requester instead and terminate the application). |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 38 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by coldfire on 11-Dec-2002 17:02 GMT | Any of y'all MOS ppl can tell me if MOS will run on terrasoft boards?
coldfire |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 39 of 150 | ANN.lu |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 40 of 150 | ANN.lu |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 41 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by itix on 11-Dec-2002 17:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 29 (Peter Gordon):
Their dos.library implementation is still returning BCPL pointers but you cant run software written in BCPL. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 42 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Don Cox on 11-Dec-2002 17:23 GMT | In reply to Comment 14 (JoannaK):
"Biggest irrtation of MUI I remeber (used years ago) was that it was allways Demoversion (not worth
registering IMHO) so I could never get those MUI programs to
look/behave way I wanted. "
Nothing stopped you registering it. I don't think the limitations of a
demo version count as an irritant - or at least, they are meant to be. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 43 of 150 | ANN.lu |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 44 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by It's MEEE!!! on 11-Dec-2002 17:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 38 (coldfire):
Yes it has been tested already in the TeronCX. |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 45 of 150 | ANN.lu |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 46 of 150 | ANN.lu |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 47 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by - Ü - on 11-Dec-2002 17:32 GMT | In reply to Comment 43 (Don Cox):
"The features of Frogger and TurboPrint are the same for both OSes."
Turboprint will be part of AmigaOS4.0? Didn't know that... |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 48 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Anonymous on 11-Dec-2002 17:46 GMT | Quite an impressive feature-list there for MorphOS! Nice one.
And, given that MorphOS has already been seen in tangeable form publically (as opposed to some screenshots), I think that's the question answered for me. Time to get ready to order a Pegasos just as soon as MorphOS is formally launched.
Sorry AInc, you had your shot and blew it big-time (you were supposed to have OS4.0 our 13 MONTHS ago, remember? "On schedule and rockin'" I believe was the phrase?). |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 49 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by gerrit on 11-Dec-2002 17:46 GMT | In reply to Comment 40 (Anonymous):
but you did realize that this news is about morphos and not os4, didn't you? |
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| MorphOS feature list out : Comment 50 of 150 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by lakeside on 11-Dec-2002 17:48 GMT | In reply to Comment 40 (Anonymous):
A PDF'ed crappy website doesn't count!!! All I want is the indepth FACTS for os 4.0!!! |
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