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It might, as benchmarks proved that 330 MHz (overclocked by Stachu100) 630e on a BlizzardPPC seemed to be almost as fast as Efika in some cases.

It might be faster than an Efika, but I somehow doubt the Efika would be seen as a viable target if it was released today.

All examples I listed *could* get a MorphOS port, but none would yield a reasonable number of registrations and none is related to already supported HW closely enough to make it trivial (the TeronOne has a buggy SB on top of the buggy NB it shares with the Pegasos1).

The Sonnet/Mediator is way down the list cos:
- HW is even harder to get by than anything else on the list
- requires an support OS on the 68k side to access anything that isn't on the PCI bus

> G3 level Efika

It's G2 level even:

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=11&topic_id=11137&start=744

> a Mediator equipped Amiga with a 500 MHz Sonnet card might be faster than the Efika.

A 500 MHz G3 trumps a 400 MHz G2, yes.

> The fact that a 1.33 GHz accelerator could be built is mildly interesting

Why would it be restricted to 1.33 GHz?

> isn't the TeronOne almost the same as a Pegasos I?

Yes, the latter is based on the former, with some enhancements like newer southbridge.

> the only reason the X1000 has never gotten any love is because of Ben Hermans' involvement

For some years, and as Hermans left A-Eon prior to the X1000 release, the fact that the PA6T and thus the X1000 are no longer and won't ever be available new might have been the primary reason.

The primary reason I've mentioned the 1.33 GHz CPU is that it's still available and would be the easiest to adapt to that design.

But it is a bit pointless, and as I've mentioned before,there are other platforms that make more sense.

> The primary reason I've mentioned the 1.33 GHz CPU is that it's still available

...as are 1.42, 1.6 and 1.7 GHz ones:

https://www.rocelec.com/part/FREFREMC7447AHX1420LB
https://www.rocelec.com/part/NXPFREMC7448VU1600LD
https://www.rocelec.com/part/NXPFREMC7448VU1700LD
https://www.arrow.com/en/products/mc7448vu1700ld/nxp-semiconductors
https://www2.mouser.com/ProductDetail/NXP-Freescale/MC7448HX1700LD?qs=%2Fha2pyFaduhE9Nfwsy6ij6rTF5HFgDV0kLLfe4p6HpYy74DI%2FPAkHQ%3D%3D

Question is why anyone would use an old e600-based CPU instead of a newer, faster and cheaper e6500-based CPU for newly created accelerators.

> and would be the easiest to adapt to that design.

To which design? Besides, it should be easier to adapt a board design to the CPU than the other way round ;-)

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From a design standpoint, I don't think an e6500 or e5500 cored CPU would be easier to implement.
The e600 cored cpus are much more similar to the cpus used on older PCI boards like those we have been discussing.
And the software would be the same. No need for separate development.

But, again, I'd still favor something that wasn't plugged into 25+ year old technology.

> From a design standpoint, I don't think an e6500 or e5500 cored CPU
> would be easier to implement.

Why not? The SoC already incorporates the memory controller and other northbridge functionality, and there'd be no need to route traces from pins of unneeded on-chip peripherals.

> The e600 cored cpus are much more similar to the cpus used on older
> PCI boards like those we have been discussing.

None of the designs of those older PCI boards are open, so they would have to be designed from scratch anyway.

> the software would be the same. No need for separate development.

The same as what? Not separate from what? It's not like MorphOS already supports older PCI-based accelerators.
And e6500 support shouldn't be that hard given that MorphOS already supports both AltiVec and e5500.

> New hardwware supported as iMac G5 iSight [...]? Maybe a PowerMac G5 Quad
> with PCI Express graphic card will be supported?

Well, the MorphOS 3.12 release notes state the following:

"Added basic PMac12,1/PPC970FX frequency switching support [...]
Basic sensor support for PMac11,2/PMac12,1 models [...]
Added dynamic CPU frequency switching (full/half speed as supported by 970FX) for PowerMac12,1/iMacG5 based on CPU load statistics"

None of these features would make sense being mentioned if the public MorphOS 3.12 release didn't run on those machines, I guess ;-)

I'm having trouble installing 3.12 from a USB stick on my 1.67GHz PowerBook. I have followed the instructions on the main MorphOS website for preparing the USB stick, then placed it into my Windows computer and copied the SD Card/USB Image to the empty USB stick, after renaming it morphos.iso, but when I place the USB stick in my PB and try to open the morphos.iso file by double clicking it (as instructions say), I get an error message saying "No hexview yet for Usb:morphos.iso"

I'm sure this is something simple I am over looking, or have forgotten, but if I'm following the instructions on the official site and running into this problem, perhaps there are others having the same problem?

Edit: I think I have figured it out, and I am now downloading the ISO image, not the USB image, even though I will be installing from a USB stick. Maybe someone can explain to me what the SD card/USB Image downloads are for, if installing from a USB stick uses the ISO images? Is it just that the instructions for installing from a USB stick need to be updated?

Edit2: Okay, now I have the MorphOS.iso downloaded and copied to the USB stick correctly (I think), but when I open it and copy the "boot.img" from the mac_ppc32 directory, I can't paste it to the USB stick's main partition. In fact, I can't paste the file to any hard drive, or partition on my MorphOS system. I just get an error message that says "Error while copying '@1:mac_ppc32/boot.img'". Any ideas why this file won't copy to my USB stick? I can copy and paste the readme file to the USB stick main partition.

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Why copy the SD Card/USB Image to USB stick? Just use the normal LiveCD .iso file

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Because I am trying to install from a USB stick, so naturally, when I went to the Download section and saw a USB Image as one of the two choices for downloading, I chose the USB Image. Seems logical to me! Going back to the installation instructions for using a USB stick, I then saw that it says "download the ISO image" so I went back and downloaded the 3.12 .iso image.

Edit3: Finally got the installation going. I had to "Mount" the iso image, to be able to copy the "boot.img" file from the mac_ppc32 directory. Just double clicking the iso image as instructed on the page for USB installation, did not work for me.

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The SD/USB image is used when booting on Sam 460 or Efika (as stated here). I guess the USB installation instructions in MorphOS Library article could be more precise.

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Installation completed, and I'm replying from my PowerBook now. I need to find the correct registration keyfile for this computer, as it appears that it has been deleted or corrupted along the way some months ago.

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I had exactly the same issue - the instructions could be a little better. I've installed to a 1.67 Powerbook too, the DLSD model - how are you finding it? I have frequent lockups and crashes.

That certainly does not sound normal. Care to share more details?

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I'm a new user, so still getting familiar. The crashs and lockups are too numerous to list right now - once I get everything installed I want to work with I'll make a note and either submit reports and/or post here. From memory I experienced hard crashes deleting screengrab pngs, in OWB the Youtube fullscreen option sometimes stops working until I relaunch the browser, bookmarking a youtube page doesn't work (bookmarks the main page instead.)

Maybe an obvious question, but - did you check if RAM is OK?

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There's always that possibility - this isn't the best condition Powerbook I've had, however, it ran fine under OSX.

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No, I have not had any lockups or hard crashes with my PowerBook, and it always ran very stable in the past with other versions of MorphOS. Is this a clean install of MorphOS, or have you added third party software and utilities to it? The Chrysalis Pack, although being wonderful in the amount of content it installs, and how it tries to set many things up for the new users, has had a few problems in the past, which can negatively impact how MorphOS behaves. Also, is your installation brand new, or did you update an earlier version of MorphOS to get up to version 3.12, and if you did update an earlier version, did you experience any of these lockups, or other problems before the update?

Edit: I'm not trying to say that there are never any bugs in new releases of MorphOS, but when a user reports that there are too many crashes and lockups to count, or list, that does not sound typical of most other users. Being a new user, you probably try to do things differently than more experienced MorphOS users, and no doubt OWB still has many limitations compared to other web browsers, but it is the best we have, so most MorphOS users accept the limitations, and try to find ways around them to make their web browsing experience as painless as possible.

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This is a clean install, it was previously running OSX Leopard. I've tried earlier versions on other machines and only very rarely had lockups - I guess this might be a hardware issue, though as I said, OSX behaved fine on it. If it persists, I'll try reinstalling, otherwise wait for another Powerbook.

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What version of PowerBook did you say you have? And what amount of RAM in installed into it? All versions of the Aluminum PowerBook are supported (I think), but some might be supported better than others. I'm hoping that your problems are just caused by some corrupted file during installation, but can't really guess what the cause is. Having more details about your system, and specifics about when and how your system crashes, might help other here to give you suggestions on what might be causing the problems. If the problems also show up on other similar hardware as yours, then a formal bug report should be filed with the Dev. Team.

> All versions of the Aluminum PowerBook are supported (I think)

Not quite :-)

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It's the last model, 1.67Ghz 15" DLSD with 1 Gb RAM.

I've the same modell and it's supported very well - it runs very stable! Try to boot from CD and check if this problems occurs again.

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The optical drive is non functional, and booting from my Firewire CD/DVD isn't supported. I'll create another USB installer again later and try that.