Hi folks!

I am Jam from Turkey. Erm... I am using a Macintosh Performa 5260 with 24 MB of RAM.

I have been looking for a new operating system for a long time to use it on my mac. Classic mac enviroment does not satisfies me anymore.

Well.. Can I run Morph OS on my mac? If I can, Are there any localized version of Morph OS for Turkish? What are the requirements for Morph OS? Will a ppc processer ok? or?

Thanks for all replies

Jam

I tried MorphOS a while ago on my mini mac: http://www.binaryriot.com/pictures/morphos_on_minimac.jpg

Hope that answers your question.

Tokai

Teehhee... very funny

Seems like the MOS for MAc project has been abandoned for now...

magnetic

@JamWinner:

Well, you can be almost sure, than 'OldWorld' Mac will never be
supported.

So even if there would be a MacOS port available, you would likely
need a NewWorld one.

Bye

This is the closest thing I've seen ;P

https://morph.zone/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=879

It's just my Morflox skin, a skin for fluxbox. Fluxbox was compiled using gentoo portage on the mac mini I use in my lab ;)

24MB is not enough for MorphOS.

and I was still thinking that 640Kb should be enough for anybody ;P

Hi Jam,

Looks like your computer is too old and it is time you invest in a new one :)
What about buying a Pegasos ? You'll be able to run Morphos, Linux, Mac on Linux and much more.
If you can afford a Pegasos machine today try to get a used one. You can find Pegasos 1 with aprill patch at very good price.
Good luck ;)

what's the diference between a conventional pc and a pegasos? and what's the difference between win xp/os x and morph? what can you do in one that you can't do in the other?
thanks

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What kind of Performa?

First performa machines had only 68020 and 6830 machines.

Since Macintosh Performa 6110 family of computers (if I rememebr well) the CPU used was PPC 601 at 66MHz.

I undestand your point of view about Macintosh usability.
Unfortunately Classic Macintoshes react very slooow due to Mac OS which was very very heavy even for PPC processors.

Mac OS is a very good and usable OS, but it seems it was created to overweight any good Motorola and then IBM processors making them looking slow and HEAVY!
Only with recent Mac OS X and very pumped processors, the mac experience became pleasant.

By the way, what Mac OS are you running?

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MorphOS runs on Classic Amigas expanded with PPC CPUS expansion cards.

These Amiga Expansions are clocked at 160 or 200 MHz and usually started with configurations of 64, or 128 MB of RAM.

There is no documentation for ancient Macintoshes allowing the MorphOS team to adapt the OS to these envieronment, neither people at MorphOS team are interested to run MorphOS on these ancient machines.

Better luck with Macintoshes with PPC G3 or G4, if MorphOS team will evaluate that it could be a valuable market...

But actually project to port MorphOS on Mac PPCG3 and G4 is stopped as you read just here in this thread.


If you are about to buy some new computers you could look at Pegasos II.

Motherboard has almost same price of Mini Mac, but it is very expandable with PCI cards and can run either MorphOS and various Linux flavours, and Mac OS in emulation.

And Pegasos has talso he option to multiple boot any of these OSes.

Take a look at Vesalia for the prices:

http://www.vesalia.de

For any information on Amiga and Amiga-Like OSes like MorphOS try any local turkish Amiga Club. They can explain better this OS to you.

Site to find local Amiga groups:
http://www.amiga.com/ugroups/index.php?browse=1&page=n


Turkish groups I found:
http://www.amigaturk.com/

http://www.commodoreturk.com/

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From a point of view of the peripherals none.

Peripherals of Pegasi are the same of that of any computer.

From the point of view of PPC CPU these are very very fast and have only little requirements of active cooling.

Then MorphOS is a light-weight OS so it leaves the CPU free to perform other calculations without occpuying it totally.

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An OS it is a system which allows the user to dialogue with the machine.

Any OS is good. Any OS allows you to be productive.

But MorphOS gives you the complete control on the machine without hiding underneath strange programs running...

(MorphOS does not spy you as Windows uses)


Also MorphOS is extremely easy to learn and manage in its deep.

(It is not difficult as Linux).

It does not hide any alien OS underneath its Graphical interface as Mac OS does

(Mac OS X is FreeBSD Darwin, with Aqua interface running on it and giving the impression of being on a common and classical Macintosh)

Also Apple prevents the user to explore MacOS into its deep.

Again MorphOS it is very light weight. Standard installation it occupies something as 17 MegaByte (MEGA not GIGA) of Ram into your hard Disk.

Hope I was of some help for you.

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