So is MorphOS for the MacMini next?
  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    TheMagicM
    Posts: 1220 from 2003/6/17
    do tell.....
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    TheMagicM
    Posts: 1220 from 2003/6/17
    AmigaMac:

    maybe you can start a bounty funded by your paycheck to have MorphOS ported to the PS3. lol.

    I'm in a good position because I bought a used Mini for my son and found out that it wasnt going to be powerful enough to play the games he wants so I built him a quad core Windows box. So now I have a MacMini sitting here waiting for MorphOS.



    MorphOS devel, I will pre-pay the $250 or whatever the price is for BETA TESTING MorphOS on my MacMini. Make it happen.

    -=Alex
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  • Caterpillar
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    AmigaMac
    Posts: 21 from 2004/1/5
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    @TheMagicM

    Nope, not going to do that. I'd rather see MorphOS on one of Genesi's next generation mobos or on Acube's SAM440 (including Flex). Not some random used Mac hardware found on eBay!
  • »04.01.09 - 03:23
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    TheMagicM
    Posts: 1220 from 2003/6/17
    LOL @ SAM440. Speaking of underpowered and overpriced hardware..


    well, good luck in your quest. May your dreams be fulfilled. If not, at least you'll have it in your dreams. :)
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  • Caterpillar
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    AmigaMac
    Posts: 21 from 2004/1/5
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    @TheMagicM

    Dude, I could really care less if MorphOS makes it on SAM440 or not, but if it did, it would certainly be a better choice than some old used beat up Mac mini found on eBay. Amiga OS4 is already on the SAM and I'd be fine with that too.
  • »04.01.09 - 03:54
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  • MorphOS Developer
    Piru
    Posts: 587 from 2003/2/24
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    I think supporting used hardware with a new operating system such as MorphOS is just crazy.

    I don't think it's crazy at all. The Mac Mini is affordable and very very fast. It's relatively easy to upgrade the HDD, RAM and optical drive. There are tons of them available for years to come. The platform has multiple readily available alternative OSes, which is always a plus (it's nice to be able to use OS X or Linux if/when needed). It's easily the largest MorphOS target platform by far.

    I know it's impossible to please everyone, but so far the response has been overwhelmingly positive.
  • »04.01.09 - 04:59
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    Golem
    Posts: 766 from 2003/2/28
    From: Denmark
    @AmigaMac

    You should buy that then, if Genesi should manage to bring out some new hardware with MorphOS support you can buy that too. I can see you've been registered here for 5 years now, so you must have had the chance to pick up a Pegasos 2, certainly a more capable platform than the sam.
  • »04.01.09 - 07:45
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  • MorphOS Developer
    cyfm
    Posts: 537 from 2003/4/11
    From: Germany
    There might as well be a 2.x update without Mac Mini support. It basically depends on the progress of remaining drivers and installation changes (which are quite complex for mac mini to be bullet proof). No date on the Mac Mini release has actually been published, it just has been said that it will happen after some general update which also doesn't imply that it would happen after 2.2 .....
    We already have some important fixes in the pipeline which might be released before there is another update for a new platform. Don't hold your breath though, release candidates usually take a few weeks to be actually released to public.
  • »04.01.09 - 11:07
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