Its been said before, but probably needs repeated! It is truly amazing what has been accomplished with so little resources! You aren't just sitting back and letting and letting long periods pass not doing a single thing, but are constantly improving and forging ahead. Your stamina in such a small market is appreciated and not lost on me!

I hope you enjoy using MorphOS as much as I do and you continue forever!

[ Edited by redrumloa 03.01.2014 - 10:39 ]

Second that!

Waiting for the 64MB VRAM Mac Mini to arrive in the next few days (already using the 32MB one for quite some time and loving it) and I've spotted a 2.7Ghz unit and will get that one too if everything goes smooth, in the next week or so.. fingers crossed.

Btw, is there a bounty that needs a donation, which one would be most needed atm? I have some to say thanks to all the devs and others involved, thank you very much.

Well, continuous improvement has been a theme since I first started using MorphOS on a Quicksilver.
Even though it is not supported yet, I am already in the process of upgrading my dual core 2.3 GHz G5 to a 2.5 GHz quad core.
I have a Radeon X1900GT on order, and as I already have the PC version in my Sun Ultra 20, I look forward to the eventual support of the R500s and their further enhancing our 3D experience.

Also, the SAM460 should be an interesting addition to our hardware base.

Even without the jump to 64 bit, we have a nice upgrade path for the current OS.

So, even if the OS splinters into multiple paths, I anticipate retaining the G5 for many years to come.

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+1

Great OS from even better team!
Thank you all

@Jim

I don't want to drag this off topic here so just a quick q for you Jim.. is the G5 2.5Ghz officially confirmed to be supported in the future? Please pardon me if I have missed this announcement on the forums.

The 2.5Ghz you are talking about is the PCIe one and a LCS, correct?

http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_quad_2.5.html

Mods, please remove this if not appropriate here and I will open a new thread.

Thanks.

[ Edited by nobrainer 03.01.2014 - 16:15 ]

No official confirmation for PCIe PMacs !

No Kronos is correct, no official statement on this.
It has been mentioned in a couple threads that developers participated in, but until it is announced (which, knowing these guys, will be on introduction), as always, DON'T buy unsupported hardware in anticipation of future support.

Will it happen?
I'll give you my right testicle if it doesn't.
When?
Don't ask.

Personally, I keep an iBook around for my MorphOS fixes.

All my speculation revolves around the obvious choice for the next systems that might be supported.

However, there are other possibilities, like the G5 iMacs, that would require less work.

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[ Edited by Jim 03.01.2014 - 16:51 ]

Ill put in my thanks again as well!!! Ive been around since nearly the start. Some times very active, and some not so active. I'll have to say that now more than ever things are moving. The OS is very stable and runs great.

I can use it for my day to day use in just about everything other than printing needs. Its the one thing MOS just hasent seemed to every get nailed down. I hope to see it perfected in the future, but I know its not an easy task with so many printers and so many drivers out there for them all to deal with.

Well done team, keep it up!!

Another satisfied customer here, thanks for all the hard work and effort you put in to really polish the end product.

I can only confirm the good things all of you wrote.
MorphOS is growing better and better and it's a real satisfaction use it for everything I need.
On G5 2.7 MorphOS is really brilliant!
So how not to say thank tou once more?

@Acill:
I use MorphOS for printing needs too thanks to Zukow which is doing a very good work. Yes it's an early stage and he has to do more work but since he previously did it with Scandal I believe he will repeat quality work with this. Let's wait next MorphOS upgrades!

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Hope that SAM460ex as platform will accelerate the Radeon 4000HD+ support at least in 2D. Problem there is that integrated gfx is bad and that board is very picky in accepting cards lower then this.

http://www.acube-systems.biz/download/Sam460ex_EndUserManual_v1.3.pdf

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However, I do agree with overall topic - congratulations, raspect and personal salute for showing that OPTIMIZED and IMPROVED not BLOATED all over OS is possible. That reminds me of best of 90s - programmers trying to squeeze as much juice as possible.

Hello!

Off course I'm growing this topic!
For my use, Morphos is the most dynamic OS; winwin, MacOS, even light Linux are ways for loosing time with a computer...
A plus is that members of the MOSTeam are nice people... Havin' for exemple cool and interesting discussions during the Alchimie X with Fab and Henes; Bigfoot "plié en quatre" for making possible the G5's ans R300's.... All of them are quite "devoted"....

For those that haven't seen the Fab's MorphOS conference at last Alchimie (there's some videos on the web), it is betwin other nice things telling about a CUPS for MOS...

Amigalement!

> For those that haven't seen the Fab's MorphOS conference at last Alchimie (there's some
> videos on the web), it is betwin other nice things telling about a CUPS for MOS... ;-)

Yes, this has been reported here on MorphZone as a planned MorphOS 3.6 feature:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=9647&start=3

It should be based on this project by zukow:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=32&topic_id=9037&start=46

Purchasing a second G5 (a supported model this time) to explore this operating system.
I am no longer that interested in a future ISA change.
To put it simply, you guys go on ahead, I may catch up later.
I think I will linger here for awhile.
There have been big improvement since I set up my 933 MHz Quicksilver.

I also got several MOS systems, and several of them have paid licenses

I'm all for the ISA change, but I'm also for exploring the possibilities MorphOS has to offer now. I don't see a contradiction in that.

MorphOS 3.4 is bloody amazing! Especially OWB! I can surf on it almost like I surf on my PC. Being so close to what others have, I don't think I've seen that since maybe 1998 in Amigaland!

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I never said I wasn't, but if I had a choice, I'd vote for continued development of what we have.
Even a hack to allow Linux to use the additional cores and memory would be useful.

And I notice that no one has answered my claim that all those future plans would be possible without an ISA change.

> no one has answered my claim that all those future plans would be possible without
> an ISA change.

The reason may be that it's obvious that it is. Memory protection and resource tracking could be done on all currently supported machines, multiprocessing could be done on dual-G4 and dual-G5 machines, and 64-bit processing could be done on all G5 machines. And that's not even taking into account any Power Architecture machines MorphOS doesn't currently run on.
Of course, just because it'd be possible doesn't mean the MorphOS Team will do it.

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No, that IS the frustrating part.
I am trying to figure out what a new version based on a different ISA would feature that would offer me real benefits and the list is not long enough to make me comfortable.

A MorphOS license is the gift that keeps on giving. My PowerMac G5 went belly up, so after replacing the motherboard I requested a replacement keyfile and one was received. No muss, no fuss. I've lost count of how many updates I've received for my one purchase of a keyfile (for each machine).

Thanks again guys!

Yep..thanks again MorphOS Devs!!!