Another year is starting now. A good opportunity to speculate around a bit. So what are your expectations for 2010 in butterflyland?

My highest personal hope is support for the powerbook, probably late in 2010. Also I hope the 8610 board thing wil lead to something. Support fot the PowerMac was confirmed already, so we will see MorphOS on more computers in future.
I hope the useerbase will increase significantly. in 2010
Also I hope Fab will continue his brilliant work on MPlayer & OWB. Really two gems of software! I also hope for an update of Hollywood that supports MUI (but I doubt this will come). For showgirls I would like to see another update in 2010 which brings a better slideshow function and the possibility to use effects on selected areas (a free hand tool would be great). Also I hope Yomgui will continue his excellent work on Python and Blender.
If I am not too lazy I will probably contribute to the great pool of MorphOS software myself with some rather boring app in 2010.

I think if 2010 follows the path taken in 2008 and 2009 it will be a good year. The last two years were quite good IMHO (the 2.x release, OWB, Mac mini support), only dissappointing thing was the rather slow increase of the user base.
On the long term I expect a migration of MorphOS to another ISA beside PPC, but I don't expect a release for x86 or ARM (or #?) still in 2010, but rather in 2012 or 2011. But I hope Laire at al. are working on a migration behind the curtain already.

I agree with you, the last two years has been very good MorphOS years, and 2010 will continue this trend!

Me too hopes that Fab will continue his work on MPlayer and OWB, especially since Sputnik obviously turned out to be a still born.

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And it could, provided it will happen in a not too distant future. I have thrown some bounty on it at win or loss, and will probably transfer my sputnik bounty to it as well. The 8610 is a genuinely interesting CPU IMHO.

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I think the migration definitely will come, and that it will be x86. I doubt anything will be officially announced before they have released all their planned releases for Mac HW though, and then some time after that.

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Me too, and I think they are.

Happy New Year!

i don't expect anything but i want to be surprised : )

@Zylesea

I hope for faster, more upgradeable hardware. Preferably new hardware but I understand that is kind of tough with the PPC platform options continuing to decline.

Laptop ports, begin to develop on G5. I think, if no new options come up for MOS on PPC, ARM is teh way to go, because we'd get Genesi behind us agin with the Efika MX and the laptop, but they will probably finish porting MOS to the rest of the G4's and then the G5, even if half finished and then move to ARM, and NOT X86!!! IF they go to X86, I'm leaving and so will several others

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Not me ! That would mean to make MOS gain a wider user base.
And would solve the lack of hardware to run the OS.
I think The PPC path is death, Genesi gave up. Well, aside from PS3 and XBOX360
consoles.

x86 is a powerful and versatile platform but also very diverse. It's not like you just have to support the actual processor but also all the bits that goes around it, everything from disk controllers to soundchips and what have you. I'd much rather see the team's effort being put into new exciting stuff for MorphOS and improving current drivers.

My expectations/hopes for 2010 is for OWB to continue improving. Webkit is a great rendering engine but right now OWB is being held back by what appears to be threading issues and slow rendering. From what I've seen so far the devs are doing a great job on it so it's looking good.

@ddewbofh

Er, threading issues? And if you experience rendering slowness on a mac mini, that's suspicious too. :)
I understand it could feel slow on an amiga or efika, but on a peg2 or mac mini, it's certainly quite acceptable.

[ Edited by Fab on 2009/12/31 16:53 ]

@fab

That's the way it appears anyway, tabs freezing during activity in others. No UI interaction when rendering certain sites etc. I call that a threading issue even if the browser would be single-threaded as those problems can be alleviated by threading and/or process isolation.

I'll be happy using my Mac mini 1.5GHz for the next year! :) Anything else is bonus :) I've tired to fantasize and wait things which are only speculations. I think it's better to enjoy what we actually have... especially when we really have cool things like we do now :) 2009 has been fantastic year.. we've got lots of cool software as mentioned and support for new hw too. I guess many haven't even had time to fully enjoy that yet :P Thanks for everyone who contributed, I'll be happy for long even if there wouldn't be as much news in next years.

OK, maybe I'll wish for more users too ;) Maybe those lurking people could step in now when things have polished nicely :)

I agree with jpv. What we have right now thanks to polished MorphOS releases and Mac Mini port is simply wonderful in the MorphOS front. Fab is a key developer with his MPlayer and OWB ports and these two programs make using my Mac Mini a delightful experience.

I guess that next year will bring MorphOS to other PPC Macs and Bigfoot may release his faster 3D drivers. Efika's USB will be more stable for mass storage transfers and OWB will improve more and more thanks to Fab's ideas. Perhaps we'll see a shared Cairo library with hardware acceleration and/or Radeon video acceleration for cgxvideo.library

@ddewbofh

I guess i should have enabled the network thread option by default then.
But do yourself a favor and go to owb settings and enable "network thread". :)

That was one of the major modifications/rework I added to original WebKit/OWB, which avoids freezing the UI during stalled connection phases (in particular during DNS lookups).

MorphOS for PowerBooks for me. Meaby a little bit better licence policy for a new users. That will do me :)

Happy new year everyone - happy new year MorphOS Team - thanks for all your hard work done this year!

I'd like to see:

1) Power management extended for Mac-mini ("auto shutdown after xx minutes inactivity" timer).

2) Hardware mixer for the Mac-mini audio chip (even with software volume control, onboard sound is a bit sucky under MorphOS compared to MacOS - top end seems to max out all the time, almost "rattle-y").

3) Broader userbase, more Morphzone users (already happening imho) discussing user-related issues and giving feedback and suggestions to developers.

4) More positive publicity and recognition for MorphOS outside of the Amiga-centric community.

5) General development of the default installation to include things like default links to software download site, help site & discussion site (MorphOS files, Morphzone Library and Morphzone respectively) either on the desktop, or as "default links" in built-in browser(s).

6) Better Samba/SMBFS/CIFS implementation, with GUI integrated into MorphOS shiny new preferences system.

7) PS3mediaserver implementation (rewritten in C? - awww, pwease!)

8) Introductory audio/video explanation of MUI, Ambient, Preferences etc (might try to do this myself, once I understand it more myself ) as an introduction to the OS user-interface for "newer" users.

9) Development of default user-files area to give application developers somewhere default to save user files aside from PROGDIR:

10) Health, wealth, peace & happiness to everyone of course...

EDIT: Have a good New Year all, I'm off to get wazzed.

[ Edited by boot_wb on 2009/12/31 17:36 ]

@Fab

Yeah, I've done that already. Also maxed out the number of threads which has made pages load faster. But my original "gripe" is still there. :)

1. Finish the network support for MOS.
2. Fix the filesize limitations of the OS.
3. Finish media center.

That's all I'm wishing for...

Happy New Year!

Matt

If we see a platform change this year, I want it to be G5 or ARM, X86 must not happen any time, anywhere to MOS, as I said, I WILL leave and buy over priced SAMs rather than use X86 again. A few reasons why:
Low quality instruction exceution per clock
X86 ASM is a MESS
It stands as a monopoly rivaling standard oil in the thirties
Has been shown to be the worst type of processor for ASM, it is the main reason for the use of platform independent language usage

I am just going to kick back and enjoy my Morph OS enabled mac mini next year. My big expectation is that we continue to see an increase in the user base, esp with powerbook and other G4 macs hardware support in 2010. 2009 was great! I am very confident 2010 will be even better.

Nice thread zylesea

1. I expect Morphos running on my powerbook g4 by March 2010 :)

2. I expect all the core Morphos team to stop driving their new bmws they got from sales of Morphos and ride bicycles to save the ozone layer... :P

3. I expect all the os4 fanboys to finally bow to us and Hyperion to admit they lost the fight lulz

4. I expect all of you to have a very HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[ Edited by magnetic on 2009/12/31 19:44 ]

I don't know what the activity levels for MorphOS related sites were like prior to MorphOS2.0 was released, but since I started looking around here just before 2.0 was released, things appear to have picked up ten fold.

1. I hope this trend continues for all of this year.

2. I hope that the MorphOS Dev. Team completes ports of MorphOS for the G4 PowerMac, G4 eMac, G4 PowerBook and G4 iBook models before the end of the first quarter of 2010.

3. I hope that once more Mac models are supported by MorphOS, most of the AmigaOS4.x camp will see that their OS of choice is virtually the same as MorphOS, except MorphOS is free to try, runs on faster and much cheaper hardware, and they decide to take the time to find out for themselves all the advantages MorphOS has to offer them.

4. Someone here once suggested that an AmigaOS4.x theme for MorphOS should be put together so it could be shown to current AmigaOS4.x users during demo's of MorphOS to show them that they do not have to give up anything, should they decide to make the switch to MorphOS from AmigaOS4.x. If this theme has not already been created, I hope that someone with a Pegasos2 running both AmigaOS4.x and MorphOS2.4, will create such a theme for MorphOS2.x.

5. I hope that I can do some serious learning of programming languages and techniques over the next 6 months, so that I might contribute some valuable code to several projects before the end of this coming year.

6. By the end of 2010 I hope that all ports of MorphOS to G4 Mac models is completed and the MorphOS Dev. Team can devote more time toward thinking about the next step and decide if that step will be the discontinued G5 and ports to the G5 PowerMac and other G5 Linux computer designs, Cell processor designs (haven't heard anything in this direction for a long time), to the 8610 and/or 8640 CPU design mobo's, or the larger step to a different architecture, like the ARM, or x86.

52 minutes left in this year from the time zone I sit in. I hope it has been an okay year for all of you, but more than that, I hope next year will be a better year for all of us.

Best regards,

[ Edited by amigadave on 2009/12/31 22:58 ]

[ Edited by amigadave on 2009/12/31 23:00 ]

I only expect subsequent PPC Macs releases.

As it could be seen, many Amiga fans, also those who enjoy classic emulation only, possess some stock of PPC Macs. By enabling their support they automatically become new MorphOS users. And I'm not mentioning cheap HW alternative, that's also a huge factor. MorphOS notebook would also rule

I also wish that other stuff is finished on my Mac mini example - wireless, maybe bluetooth or analog modem.

> I think The PPC path is death [...] Well, aside from PS3 and XBOX360 consoles.

Don't forget the Wii :-)

> Cell processor designs (haven't heard anything in this direction for a long time)

"In November 2009, an IBM representative said that it has discontinued the development of a Cell processor with 32 SPUs but they have not halted development of other future products in the Cell family."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor)#History

I've been discussing Cell processors with the forums moderator for the Natami Project. Gunnar is a fascinating fellow with a background in the development of Cell based supercomputers. Personally I'd still love to see a PC based on the Cell.

So, first for the new year, I hope I'll see a version of MorphOS that runs on the G4 Mac I have with the Radeon 9000 Pro video card I've put in it (maybe I can even afford a 1.8GHz upgrade processor - making it one fast platform for MOS).

Second I hope the team behind the Natami manages to complete the preliminary hardware designs and gets an initial board out to developers (or that Jens at Individual Computing completes the work he's been so quietly pursuing).

Third, I hope that Applied Micro's Titan cored PPCs will continue to be developed (as Freescale's 8610 seems to be the only other modern PPC that is likely to remain available). Further, it would be nice if they were a little more forthcoming with the technical info on those processors.

Fourth, that IBM's announcement (mentioned above) is only a precursor to the introduction of even more powerful Cell based processors (which, in my opinion, would be ideal for a MorphOS/AmigaOs system).

Fifth, and I know this is unlikely, but I love to see Quark supporting more than just basic ABOX functionality. If not QBOX, then why not an SMT capable ABOX? And, yes, I know how difficult that would be.

Sixth, and final wish, that all the divergent directions that Amiga related hardware and OS developments finally garner enough recognition that we draw new people into our market (as a larger user base can only help assure our future viability).

Oh, and I wish Happy New Year to everyone reading these postings.

Take care
Jim

> Freescale's 8610 seems to be the only other modern PPC that is likely to remain available

The 8640 is going to be discontinued? Then, there's QorIQ going strong (the e500mc variants with a "real" FPU) and IBM will have their PPC476 core to be implemented by LSI.