Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1213 from 2004/12/1
From: Paris, France
still funny to read some old articles from today's perspective.
Quote:
This initial beta of MorphOS is a fantastic
achievement, it is remarkably stable
and the 68k emulation shows a good
turn of speed. At the moment it is very
hard to say how successful it will be In
the future, if MorphOS were ported to
modern PPC hardware I can see many
Amiga users, myself included, being
very tempted by the thought of a fast,
cheaply upgradeable machine running
the software we love. However at the
moment there is a distinct lack of such
machines on the market. With IBM’s
POP (PowerPC Open Platform) boxes in
an almost BoXeR like state of “just a few
weeks away” for the last six months
Apple is the only company shipping PPC
hardware in volume. Unfortunately
Apple are known to very cagey over the
specs of their systems so MorphOS on a
G4 Mac may not be possible without
extensive hacking. The other avenue is
the proposed PPC only accelerators for
current Amigas but with Amijoe not expected
until early 2001 will a big enough
market still exist?
but yeah, even if they were quite indulgent on MorphOS/Pegasos with quite positive reviews they still used to end their articles with something like "MorphOS is cool but AmigaOS 4 WILL surely be better"