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The first quarter of the year has now passed. Some people expected it
as a "christmas gift" for christmas 2003, but unfortunately that
didn't happen. Then some people hoped that it would only be slightly
delayed and that it would be released some week or so after new years
eve. Unfortunately, that didn't happen either. I guess we all hoped
that it would still be released "early 2004" though.
Well, now it's not "early 2004" anymore. A whole quarter of the year
has passed and the summer is coming up. So I guess that I am not the
only one who asks: When will MorphOS1.5 be released? :-P
Don't get me wrong, I think MorphOS "1.4.2" works just fine on the
Pegasos2, and even though LinuxPPC is flawless and runs perfect too,
it's still not really what an old Amigan would expect or want. So I am
very, very grateful that we have MorphOS 1.4.2 and I would like to
take this opportunity to thank everyone that has been involved in
bringing the platform to where it is today. It already offers
pretty much everything that an old time Amigan coming back from the
Wintel world would need and want. I found myself re-descovering the
Power of Amiga again, almost ten years after I left, but this time
with more modern hardware with RTG audio, RTG video, network, USB and
very fast CPU's like the 1GHz G4. The responsiveness of the OS, the
familiar applications, and even such "minor" things like downloading
something to RAM: and lha it there to try it out, instead of going
through a massive installation process that takes a lot of time with
changing the register and rebboting and such. And running things
directly from the CD, like MorphOS itself! I like it a lot! :-)
Even though the old Amiga TCP/IP stacks like MiamiDx and Genesis works
fine (and very fast too, thanks to the great JIT), it would surely be
nice to have the rumoured PPC MorphOS native TCP/IP stack. And it
would surely be nice to be able to crunch the RC5 keys with AltiVec
since that would mean that about 2.5 times more keys would be crunched
during the same time on the 1GHz G4. And it will be interesting to see
what the AltiVec can do for other programs to, like media, graphics,
audio, etc programs. And there are still some room for some
improvements in Ambient, if you know what I mean! ;-) /me hopes
for a MorphOS1.5 release early this summer so one can spend some rainy
days on the vacation to fiddle with it ... :-)
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