Hi All!

I started this topic because I have loads of questions as an morphos but also amiga outsider and am considering getting a pegasos. I'm sure this thread can be of much use to other people not familiar with morphos too.

Without much blabla I'm giving a short intro of myself. When I first used computers I was into MS-DOS. It was simple, lowlevel and easy. Now there's windows, and it's stable as hell but it doesn't have that ultimate feeling that you're in controll of your computer (at least, this occurs to me). I know the mess that makes up Windows, and they (Microsoft) top it off with a fisher price GUI. Another OS I use is Linux (Slackware and Gentoo being my favourites). Linux is nice but has it's quirks too.

It must be clear. I am looking for an alternative platform, that is fun, non-bloated (Windows XP alone uses over a GB of diskspace!), functional, low-level, and has huge possibilities to develop for and therefore grow userwise and platformwise. It seems the pegasos/morphos combo is perfect :)

Now, here are my questions I'm wondering about.

I've tried winUaE [emulator] with Amiga in a Box and found it great! I've tried a couple of apps and games from aminet.
Is there any deluxepaint (which I know from ms-dos or similar program that works on morphos? I've run personal paint on winuae and found it quiet nice. I like 8-bit oldskool pixeling and know the keyboard shortcuts of dp so that's why I'm asking :)

I see there are alot of apps that could be usefull in the superbundle. Is this superbundle already included with current Pegasos sales?

Developing. I suspect the gcc family of compilers comes with the SDK? If not, is a c/c++ compiler included? What about an assembler?

How usefull is morphos a platform for coding (and learning ppc-)asm?

I saw a cool fractal program (I think it was called zone or fractal explorer), do I have to buy AmigaOS 3 to use it?

Does there exist a sample editor that runs on morphos? I saw digibooster soon comes with a morphos version, so I'm allready happy there's a tracker :)

What videocard is best supported on morphos? Can I use generic memory dimms on the pegasos 2? (being puzzled by the whole memory/chip/blabla issue with the pegasos 1)

Should I, as an non-ex-amiga user buy a G3 board (which is more friendly priced) or go straight with the G4 board? (I think reading somewhere the OS "feels" fast anyway)

Well, that's about it (phew! :)
If I've more questions I'll ask if you don't mind, you seem like a friendly bunch of fellows ;)
I hope though you can answer some of my questions.

Byebye!

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Hang around, we don't bite.

hmm.. my answers are similar so I just say: he's telling truth :)

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Is pp native or emulated? Not that I care too much, if it runs it runs :)

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lol :) that was a bit strange question from me :)
I meant, is the MUI gui toolkit also programmable with assembler?

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I'll think I go for the 3dfx then

Hmm.. some things come to mind... does AHI support multiple audio (or midi?) devices at once, or devices with multiple in or outputs? (like 2x line-out)

I suppose USB support is complete?

Does morphos support fat32? otherwise I'll transfer my win c: data through other means (ftp, or something)

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I know :) Sometimes there are asses running around forums scaring newbies

By the way I hope this quoting things works for me, I'm not really familiar with posting to webbased boards

Cheers!

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It is. I used to develop MUI GUIs in 68k assembler but today I prefer
C for that matter. Using PPC asm is possible but maybe not comfortable
(due to RISC nature of PPC asm source code tends to go more complex).

But if you are brave enough PPC asm should not be problem I guess

Btw

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G3 is fanless. I've Peg1 with G3, HD and PSU are almost silent. My gfx
card doesnt have fan either. It is real advantage. G4 provides more
raw power but that is with fan then.

G3 @ 600MHz is more than enough but Altivec in G4 is interesting
too... I would buy G3 version because it is silent.

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I may be wrong, but it seems it's "on its way" to be native, in the meantime it may be running (personnally I tried just once and it crashed, but I didn't try much as I didn't really need it).

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As of my experience with it yes! Poseidon (which is the MorphOS USB Stack) handles pretty much everything. The only issue is if you have a device that needs a specific driver, you may encounter some problems and you're better ask around before buying anything that is USB and verify what protocol it uses (like Digital Cameras, some are PTP and other simply uses standard FAT32 ... and PTP is not completely supported yet).

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Yes it does, not completely natively (correct me if I'm wrong), but you won't find an user-friendly way of mounting a HD, but it's not a problem to do it. In short, you need an handler (which is called fat95) and some knowledge about how to make a DOSDriver (many of us know how to do it, so when you're at that step, just ask!).

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Even newbies should be able to do that ;)

Oh, and BTW, I only have a Pegasos I with a G3 @ 600 MHz, but if I were you, I'd get a Pegasos II with a G4 @ 1 GHz.

Hope this helps!

Sincerely,
Fred

Hi!

Welcome to the community. You will find it a fun and productive environment. You can find out alot of info reading the forums here and logging into the irc channel #morphos. Here is some answers:

1. Zone Explorer is great on MOS and there are other fractacl programs

2. For video card if you want 3d for games and euro demos get a Voodoo card. If you want fast 2d gfx and better picture quality get a Radeon 7500 or 9000 agp.

3. with your purchase of a pegasos you get the Superbundle of software apps. Games, paint tools, Image Fx and Pro Station audio a pro audio package.

4. For just getting into it the G3 version will be plenty fast for you. You wont believe it could go faster! Thats how fast the g3 is. But if you want to go all out go for the power...

5. All USB peripherals i have tried work. Keyboards,mice, digi cams, etc..

6. With the supported DVD Rom drives you can get Full Screen DVD playback in MOS!


Have fun

magnetic

You can make using fat95 user firendly - after installing fat95, download MountDos, change tooltypes (device, unit, and select fat95), and it ready. It will mount all fat partitions on selected device.

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Well I'm willing to wait for a while and use the gfx program in the superbundle in the meantime.

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So, if I have for example my Midisport2x2 which probably isn't supported, is there documentation for the USB stack in the SDK to write my own driver? The other usb device I have is a Sandisk SDDR-09 smartmedia reader.

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Hmm fanless G3 looks nice too. I saw there's an upgrade possibility from Peg1 to Peg2G4; can I upgrade from a peg2 G3 to a G4 by buying an upgrade cpu card?

For GFX:

Native: FXPaint and ImageFX (light versions included in the superbundle).
Emulated: TVPaint (Free)

@LoTeK
The "smartmedia-reader" may be supported as mass-media, assuming
the producer had some common sense that is.

Don't know what a Midisport is, but Poseidon-SDK is included within the (free)
MorphOS-SDK, but don't ask me how goog or bad that special part is (the
autodoc is HUGE, so thats a good sign ).

Further details on Poseidon Click Me

Note, that the Pegasos is been delieverd with fully registered and PPC-native
Poseidon, just to avoid confusion.