I made an announcement regarding the future of where I want to take my software development, on the home page of our website.

SeaScape Software

I am excited to join this new computing platform, and I hope to bring some wonderful software to its users. I need a Pegasos motherboard with MorphOS though! :)

James get in touch with Bill Buck at bbrv(at)genesi.lu and tell him who you are. They do offer the Pegasos I and now even the Pegasos II ODW system free of charge to developers. You may end up getting one!

What kind of busines are you doing with your company? There's no product mentioned on the page yet...

Really Acill? Cool! I will e-mail him about it. :)

BTW, I wish you well during your stint in the Gulf area. Make sure you come back!

Hello Zylesea,

I plan on bringing out entertainment titles mostly, but I am going to also start an educational line of software based on two cute and cuddly cartoon ferrets, Cubby and Pepper. See below... :)
ferretsonly-logo.png
This is going to be fun! :)

And what about the adventures genre? Since mad and funny ones (Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Simon the Sorcerer 1/2...) to "serious ones" but with irony and very good (The Dig, Beneath a Steel Sky...). I personally that people of MorphOS like this genre as well as other "classic" genres

About educational software it's very nice, but please not do the characters retard ones as teletubbies, twenees and others... I don't like a new generation of retard childs from MorphOS geeks

@James

Welcome aboard; it's great to have more software developers around (the more the marrier ) I'm looking forward to hear more about your projects

ps. Awwww, those ferrets look way too cute

Hello timofonic,

hehehe Don't worry, the ferrets won't be dumbing down anyone. That is not my intention... I want to make a few Mathematics programs specifically, but I am open to doing other types of games. This is only in the planning stage right now, so a lot of things need to be planned out. Genesi probably wants to get the Pegasos into schools, so that means some developers have to step up to the plate and start making educational software. If you looked at my profile, you can see I am studying to be a Mathematics (5-12) teacher. It is very important to me that I help improve children's Math abilities, especially here in the United States and my home country, Canada.

I do want to make some apps too, but I want to plan everything well before I start any programming and get comfortable with any system-specific programming requirements. This is going to be a huge undertaking for me, so I need to plan everything out well.

All I can say is this - I haven't been more excited like this since my Amiga days. Kind of giddy actually! :) It has been 12 years or so since I have touched an Amiga, but from what I have been reading the MorphOS is structurally very similar. The learning curve should be minimal at best.

I'm quite sure of my decision to do any future programming mostly for the MorphOS, as it is simply beautiful in my humble opinion. I want to help build the MorphOS/Pegasos community in my own little way.

Very nice to know, and about graphic adventures?

About the lacks, could be nice if you release some freeware (a GUI for MLDonkey by example) too, and see the lacks of MorphOS software before do it

I think that companies releasing some freeware software does the users more friendly with the company...

And please not give religious influences to educational software... Personally religion sucks and must no exist, and the people must say if they are in some religion (sect) when are adult (I consider adult a mental state, not age or psysical, see some people of ANN.lu as example), as consuming drugs...

[ Edited by timofonic on 2004/9/27 10:44 ]

Hey Stevo!

Thanks for the welcome. They should capture a child's attention quite nicely I think.

This week I have to work on my website a bit and do some reading on the MorphOS. Going to be quite busy...

Does anyone know what is the latest ATI card that will work with the Pegasos? I need to get one soon... :)

Hello Acill,

What is the Pegasos II ODW? Stupid question, I know.

Hi James,

Try http://www.pegasosppc.com/odw.php for information on the ODW.

About the radeon: You'd be best of with one of the 7xxx series, though the ATI Radeon 9100 (R200), ATI Radeon 9000 Pro (RV250), ATI Radeon 8500LE (R200), ATI Radeon 7500 (RV200), ATI Radeon 7200 (R100), ATI Radeon 7000VE (RV100) are supported.

3D-hardware decoding is presently only supported on the Voodoo range of graphic cards, 3dfx Voodoo5 (all models), 3dfx Voodoo4 (all models), 3dfx Voodoo3 (all models). It is said that radeon 3d-hardware support will be included in the next update of MorphOS, but that might be some time off.

The ODW is a preassembled Pegasos based desktop workstation. It comes with a variety of Linux and according development tools and documentation.
MorphOS is also delivered along. Deatails are available at freescales site.

For MorphOS development it's not required to get this ODW, just get a Peg Mobo. The extravalue of an ODW is more in the Linux and support area as well as with proven compunds used with the ODW.

A person familiar to assemble a computer and the focus more to MorphOS does not benefit too much from the ODW (well, of course it's always a good thing, but as said, it targets more to the Linux thing).

Anyway, would be nice to see your ferrets on MOS, they are *awsome*.

I think that Genesi must give an ODW to James for free

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Yeah. Everyone who say they might/will do something/anything for MOS, should get a free Pegasos-system.

Why bother selling them..

I don't need the Pegasos II ODW, as I have no interest in using Linux, except for MacOnLinux. :) I just need to get a new G4 Pegasos II motherboard and MorphOS, along with the Superbundle. The ODW would be overkill for me, as I have most of the components already. I was going to get an AmigaOne motherboard, but I quickly changed my mind about that once I read about the Pegasos platform over the last few days.

BTW, I am going to submit a design of a mid-tower case to Genesi to consider making for people that would buy one to go along with their Pegasos motherboard. Believe me, you will like it when you see my idea. It would be absolutely gorgeous, and it would help users identify more with their Pegasos system. I got the idea yesterday while looking at the logos, especially the butterfly logo. That is the only hint I am giving. :) I even have a laptop case in mind too. It would be so wonderful to have a laptop running MorphOS, wouldn't it?

LOL, why you must get a Pegasos II G4 for free? Who says that you aren't another person getting hardware for free and do nothing? What do you developed and what platofrms? You can demostrate that you can do doing some stuff and releasing as show of your knowedgements (giving source code to genesi for them know that you are the author). There are other people doing stuff for MorphOS and they buyed a Pegasos II, not received for free... Give a CV to Genesi and demostrate that is true that you said on CV, then I think that you will be trustly...

Go to SNDF by example...

I (and most people here I think) not like promises, like real things. If not, I'm (and other MorphOS users) were a OS4 user. It's very funny say: "I will do X thing(s) if I receive X hardware for free" when people of the community not know you, not developments... you must be trustly first...

Did you probed MorphOS? You are in USA, visit to some MorphOS user or something first...

I'm mad but not stupid...


[ Edited by timofonic on 2004/9/27 13:05 ]

Timofonic:

Next time better think before you post. First you said James "must get an ODW", then you are harsh and asking 'Who are you that you think to get a free board?'
James has nothing written about a free board. He said himself that an ODW would be overkilll, I think he is welcome to our MorphOS world as much as everybody else. When he develops some nice applications this is an extra benefit for the comunity.

For developer support Genesi/freescale have the ODW program. Everyone is welcomed to ask for getting one, but there are conditions to fulfill. Either you can - then fine - or you can't - then there is no free ODW. Decision is up to Genesi/Freescale.

@Zylesea

Opps, ok, I'm some paranoid after some people getting hardware for free and later doing nothing, sorry...

Yes, I was said that, but I can't change my think?

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May be Cubby and Pepper might star in an adventure game? Who knows... :) I would like to see that very much.

As for Freeware... I will be releasing stuff over time, as I get comfortable with programming for MorphOS. I have to take some time to learn any system specfic things, etc. Eventually, I will release Shareware stuff, but that is a bit off right now. For now, Freeware it is. :)

James,

Are you planning on bringing your warez over to A1/Amiga OS4 as well?

@AmigaMac

No illegal stuff is allowed on this webpage...

No illegal stuff is allowed on this webpage...

What illegal stuff???

What timofonic means is that "Warez" is often a term used for pirated software. However, I would like to remind everyone that "Warez" is often used by programmers to refer to their own software development efforts.

@AmigaMac

Illegal stuff as OS4 j/k

Please stop trolling, AmigaMac...