been a hwile since i posted and i have a question for u....as soon as the peg2 motherboards come out i am getting a pegasos and i have a question....can someone who has never used and amiga but has used windows, linux, beos, and DOS be able ot just turn and the computer and know his way around or would i have to do some serious reading as to how to use the operating system.....and for the programs are there installers like in windows? or at least have the same userfriendlyness? well post back. see ya

It should be easy to get started with the basic functions and run a
few apps/games. There will certainly be a slight learning curve, but
after you interact with the system it really becomes second nature.
Most software comes with an installer or many can be simply copied
anywhere without an installation phase. I think the SuperBundle
should appeal to new users since it gives you several tested
applications with installers "right out of the box". A person can
always ask for help on MorphZone, several mailing lists or IRC. Many
faqs are being built too. :)

thanks that was very helpfull

Some of the most notable differences?

Well, all drives have a volume name and a device name. The device name is generally what you called the partition, or the static name for a drive with removeable media (cd players, floppy drives.) The volume name is the name that generally shows up in the GUI. In the case of removeable media (floppy, cd) it's the name given to the actual media (floppy or cd). In the case of non-removeable media you can use the volume ›and device name interchangably.

The device names don't necessarily conform to a standard, but traditional sets up are like this:
-> Floppy DF#: (ie: first floppy is DF0:, 2nd floppy: DF1: , etc.)
-> CD drives CD#:
-> Harddrisks DH#:

With that said, you're not limited to using those names. ;)

The Volume Name can be just about anything. There are certain limitations, but I don't know them just yet. ;)

Umm... You can also "ASSIGN" names to a directory/device/path. For instance: SYS: is defined as the drive where your OS is located. "C:" is defined as where your commands are located, "LIBS:" are where your shared libraries (a bit like .dll's) are located, "FONTS:" is where your fonts are located, etc.

Some things to keep in mind:
In the command line interface (ie: Terminal under unix, MS DOS Prompt in the windows world, and will the regular dos view)
- You can use the rename command in shell as a move.
- the "*" wildcard is not used, it's "#?", ? means the same thing though. If you want to type in a recursive command, you often use "all". IE: to copy everything from the first CD drive to a volume called "HD" you'd type "copy cd0:#? hd: all"
- the "cd" (change directory) command is optional in most cases. If you want to change to another directory you can always just type in the name of the directory UNLESS there is a command in your path that shares the same name, then it'll execute the command. At which case you need to type in "CD".
- to refer to the parent directory you use "/" and not "..". IE: To change to parent directory, just type in "/".
- To refer to the current directory in commands such as copy, use "" <- the actual quotes. ex: copy df0:#? "" would do a non-recursive copy from the device DF0's root directory to the current directory.

You don't really need to know all of the above however. As you really don't HAVE to tinker with the CLI.

If you ever wanted to know, youre "autoexec.bat" equivalent in Amiga/MOS is s:startup-sequence and s:user-startup. It's generally recommended that you only touch the "user-startup" and leave "startup-sequence" alone.

There is also an equivalent to the "startup" folder found in Win9X. It's called "WBStartup", it's a folder found on your OS drive.

Hmm... There are lots of other differences such as how menus work (they are usually on the top line of the screen, when you right click it will appear.)

And well, it goes on. :) But they aren't difficult to pick up on, really. :)

I have used win, linux, mac, amiga, beos etc.
The most logical OS in my experience was
amiga and now morphos has only improved upon
that experience.
Morphos feels smoother, faster and has common
sense functionality. Very quick to use with
some practise. Has a very friendly feel compared
to other OS's.

Presently, there are a few difficulties. The most important probably
being that there are some things not still included (like TCP/IP)
which will be a pain to fix for anyone not familiar with Amiga
software. But I certainly hope this is fixed before Peg2 is shipped.

Apart from that, I don't think there should be too many problems.

thanks it has all been very insiteful i can't wait to get my peggy and start programing apps......i know there is smooen working on porting java to amiga 4.0 but is anyone one working on getting it to morphos? well if not thats my goal when i get mine.......i just hope that genesi will release a ful line of specs on the gegasos 2.

I believe someone is working to get Java on MorphOS. Our friendly neighborhood webmaster2 (gsarff) is considering whether or not to port Squeak to MorphOS.