Hi,

I like to know from the people here what would be the reasons to go for the Pegasos. Not why the Peg and not the AmigaOne but in general. I am interested in the peoples reasons. I like to use them for one of my projects.

Coder

The reason was Carl Carda c.s., bPlan, BBRV, the vision,the concept, the support, the price-performance, the commitment to the users , the proffesional attitude, the links to big companies and the users of the Peg and of course the OS itself with the developpers
hgm

Hi Coder..

To me.. it's mostly OS.. not hardware.

My years long ambition has been finding PersonalOS that is on active development and ain't such a ugly mess as m$ Windows. And no, I don't want Linux/Unix to my desktop, I have seen their direction and they are becoming more windowse than Windows itself.

With above mentioned target there ain't much to choose from and MorphOS happened to be ready (ok, allmost) at the right time. It has right feeling in it, it's snappy, reacts well and does a lot things way I prefer.

With Windows it's the machine on control and I'm begging for it to do something I like (and preferrably at the same day). With MorphOS I get this feeling it does what and when I want something. I'm not saying MorphOS is perfect (it ain't) but I have this hope on it evolving into direction I prefer.

Of other OS:es... BeOS was closest on what I prefer on x86, but it's developmen has been uncertain for years.

as soon as i put my hands on it, it felt like HOME. like an amiga on steriods.

I spent a long time this year making my laptop multiboot so it has linux, windows2000 and has WinUAE. i wanted to learn linux and have access to amiga software. it works well.

i just got a peg and altho it is a peg1 with no april (it's a developers system and not my "final" machine), it's still something to play with and i'll be finding things that need changing.
Don't get me wrong - i'd say more about this but it's still very new to me. but even NEW it feels nice, friendly, fun. there's no reason to run to an OS unless it's fun. I only use Windows because I HAVE to. not because I want to. I want to use MorphOS because it feels fun and nice. and it will get better.

i like the fact that genesi is about expanding - mulltiple OS's are supported. multiple devices are part of the future. etc.

it all just feels right to me.

my reasons :
1- Pegasos is the fastest Amiga I could see in my life.
2- It runs all my favorit applications.
3- Morphos system is prepared do an Amiga evolution for the futur, beeing compatible with old software. We are all waiting for YOU QBOX. COME ! "Morphos Abox" is a very nice amiga system evolution between AmigaOS3.0 and futur "Morphos QBOX"
5- Morphos stability
6- PPC technology dont need tones of fans and ciberian cooling systems. So no noise in my office.
7- Pegasos Price !
8- MOrphos users comunity is a big family with very nice people ready to help newbees.
9- Pegasos and morphos teams seems to be very serious people. (good SAV, good commercial politic "Super bundle")
10- Genesi vision of futur : Morphos and pegasos implemented on office computers,SETOP-boxes, PDA ...
11- And finally, If we regret using an Amiga compatible system, pegasos is able to run a lot of operating systems, and we can change our point of view for another system than MOS if we want. so Liberty.

Hmm... My reasons?

I've spent time, effort and lots of cash to upgrade my A4000. However, the more I spent on my A4000, the less stable it became. I've had it checked out by my amiga dealer, etc. Well, eventually I just dropped it all, I had better things to do.

At that time, the Pegasos and the current AmigaOne were both brewing.

I came back a while ago to see how far things have occured. The AmigaOne's were launched but were trickling in with a massive backlog. OS4 was still CSPPC only at the time (and not officially released). The Pegasos I boards were released with MOS. People that I respected were teaming up with Genesi's product, and Genesi was supporting not only their customers, but developers.

Around that time, the new batch of Pegasos I boards were up for grabs and I figured that I'd give it a go. I was immensely pleased with the results. I found myself with the most stable "Amiga" I've had in ages. Because of it, I've started to purchase more Amiga software.

And now I'm playing around with Linux, although to be honest, I'm unsure why anyone would buy a PPC box just to run Linux... But I do hope that Genesi is able to broaden the market for the Pegasos.

@everyone: Wow, what interesting replies. Especially the stories. Those are what make this kind of thing so much fun.

@the topic
I guess I'll add my story to the list

For me, I just happened to be lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time when I discovered MorphOS personally. One of the beta-testers turned me onto MorphOS, and suggested that I contact Bill, Raquel, Nicolas, Ralph, and company. One thing led to another, and I became part of the "family."

Prior to this,, there was not a lot of information on our side of the pond about MorphOS. Thus, the only exposure I really had was through the developer of "Matrix Blanker," whom I was writing an installer for. Because of him, my eyes were opened to the possibility of MorphOS, but I still did not know too much about the project. Sure, there was the stuff that trickled onto Amiga.org, but it was usually watered down. In other words, prior to Bolton (That's the beta tester) telling me all about MorphOS and the Pegasos, I thought of it like I did about OS4--"A nice dream, maybe it will be real someday." I was soon to find out how real the MorphOS project was.

Bolton gave me enough push to make contact with Thendic/bPlan (at the time). When I did, it became a turning point... One day, I may tell the rest of the story That, as they say, is that.

@JoannaK

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I could not agree more on that. It's like every new move is more into the direction of a Windows like system. I remember in the early days the fun it gave. But now, not anymore.

I want to thank everyone for the stories so far.

For me it was Kronos that never kept quiet about me being on the wrong side. And Greenboy for getting one in my hands. And yes, it feels like an Amiga from the moment I started it. Like I said before, just make the OS4 skin for Ambient and there you have it.

Coder

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Hmm, maybe it would have been a good idea if I had negotiated with
BBRV about some sort of bonus for my work.

Could have been a filthy rich man

@Kronos

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I would be the max. bonus score. And extra points because of my work for it maybe. In the future I mean.

Coder

Okay, here are some of my reasons... (in no particular order)

1.I had tried older versions on my A1200, and later saw newer version running "live" at Saku meeting.

2.When MorphOS project was started, there was absolutely no intention from anyone to create official PPC version of AmigaOS. And when that project was later started, people doing it just say "Okay, we started doing it ourselves, please stop your project"

For me, that feels like "the true Amiga spirit" (MorphOS development, I mean, NOT that FUD campaign by Amiga inc.!)

3.Pegasos was affordable, available, and came with OS I wanted to run on it

4.MorphOS approach (Microkernel) sounds quite "future proof"

5.Many skilled Amiga programmers seemed to be already working with MorphOS

6."Pegasos side" seems to do some business (STB deal, own hardware, cheap/free hardware for potentional developers) rather than something, that looks mostly like "fan club"

And few additional reasons...

1.Amiga inc.

2.Completely unrealistic release dates from Hyperion