Some people dont like bitter truth, but it is obvious, new hardware which cost as much as slowest sam and is 30 times slower is overpriced, underpowered crap.
Yes vampire is overpriced, underpowered crap.

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Yes it's a real shame that you are forced to buy one against your will.

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no its not, because it is targeting the classic amiga/retro market as a classic amiga accelerator board and compared to existing/used and new available accelerators for the amiga it is pretty cheap for what it offers. you clearly mix up two totally different things. Vampire is a retro product aiming to compete in the retro market whereas MorphOS, Sam, X1000, OS4 etc are made to compete with modern operating systems- to a certain extent at least. So actually, it is the NG Amiga line which is way overpriced and underpowered - or to say it in your words: it is crap.
Thats like saying an IPhone 7 or Samsung is way too overpriced and underpowered crap for the price you pay, because almost every modern PC in that price range is way better.

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No, they certainly are not.

Windows has a whole range of options when it comes to the license, only one of them (OEM, Home Edition) is tied to hardware.
I own a license that I use for virtual instance of Windows on whatever hardware I see fit.

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Not really no.

The differences in OS4.1 releases are in bootstrapping, and for example the last update has bootstrapping files for _all_ the systems, not just classic. To move an installation from "classic" to native non-classic, or changing between the different non-classic hardware options is neither impossible nor breaking the license.

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@ Kolla

ALL windows licenses, unless they are institutional licenses, are for one machine.
You violate the EULA if you want.
I'm not that cheap.

One key, one installation.

In order to "violate" an EULA it needs to be a legally binding contract, which they aren't in most cases and most countries

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Does that means that I can do whatever I want with MorphOS?

And, in the US, the intentional circumvention of methods of copyright protection is a crime.

Further, unlike many Amigans, I believe IP owners deserve to be compensated for the use of their property.

Its just a matter of morality, ethics, honesty, and what is right.

I was merely commenting on the legalty of 1 OS4 or Windows copy being used on more than 1 computer, which is considered within "fair use" as long as it's only 1 machine at a time.

Circumventing a copy protection is grey area ( cc has to be "working" to have any legal effect).

If you were to find that the last 100bit of the MorphOS key are just the registered MAC address base64 encoded you were good to replace them matching a different HW (and use 1 at a time).
If more effort was needed you may run into it being defined as "working".

All seen from Germany/Europe offcourse.

>> In order to "violate" an EULA it needs to be a legally binding contract,
>> which they aren't in most cases and most countries

> Does that means that I can do whatever I want with MorphOS?

Certainly not, but for instance item #1 of the terms of use for MorphOS 1.4.5 for PowerUP ("[...] may only be used on PowerPC accelerator cards by phase5/DCE. Usage on any other hardware and/or inside of emulation environments is strictly forbidden.") doesn't seem to conform to EU law.

>"[...] may only be used on PowerPC accelerator cards by phase5/DCE. Usage on any other hardware and/or inside of emulation environments is strictly forbidden."

Interesting.

> Interesting.

Yes, it was discussed some years back when WinUAE was about to get PPC emulation. So far, no version of MorphOS has been made to run in a publicly available version of an emulator.

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You sir have a mental condition, and need to seek help from a medical professional. Your obsession is not healthy.

The G4 laptop I have works excellent. I like tinkering with my original A2k with an Indivision, HD, Gotek. Its cool but man, fiddling around with original hardware and getting the correct resolution, HD setup, cards, etc is a pain in the ass. For example, the Indivision ECS for the A2k, doesnt work with the 3 widescreens I tried. I went and bought a 17" non-widescreen and it works. Just little stuff. Maybe a floppy drive doesnt work or a card here or there doesnt..

When I boot up my G4 PB with MorphOS, everything works (other than built in wifi sometimes doesnt connect and is a pain in the ass), its fast, cheap, take it whereever I want. MorphOS Devs definitely made it worth my time and money to get a PB.

I'm pretty happy as well with my PB G4.
Usually I have it on a 24" screen. It's great. But when I unplug it MorphOS doesn't automatically switch back to the laptop screen resolution.
That's pretty much the only complaint I have.


Manfred

+1 satisfied user here.
The USB port's weaknesses could be my main complaint... but this problem could be originated to Apple.

I'm really happy with the OS myself.

The hardware support has been great.
My G4 boots from an SATA hard drive, with a SoundBlaster sound card, and a Radeon 9600 video card.

Overall, it runs quite a bit better than if I was using OSX.

One of the most useful features of MorphOS for me, at the moment, is FileImageCtrl. I'm trying to transfer stuff to my Amiga 2000's Gotek USB floppy, so I mount an ADF using FileImageCtrl, copy what I need, unmount, copy ADF to USB stick and then insert into the Gotek USB drive.

While using MorphOS on my PB there are things that are obviously much better and faster. DiskMaster 2 looks better, runs better etc.

Still very fun though!

@TheMagicM

Do you have any custom diskmaster 2 prefs to share or are you using the stock one? How can you make diskmaster run on pub screen when editing the prefs file? Where do you place the rexxx commands? Sorry for lots of questions but I have toying with it myself already and couldn't figure out some aspects of it :)

@Cool_amigaN

I wish I had some bad ass config file like that. LOL. no pub screen unfortunately. I'd love to do that. I run it 800x600 though on its own screen.

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All old software still worth opf use runs very well on ppc Amigas.
There is no reason to buy overpriced, underpowered crap like vampire.
Slow crap without FPU and MMU.




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