As a follow-up on the "2020 - your expectations" thread of last year, what's your expectations for the MorphOS world *this* upcoming year?

IMHO a safe bet would be a Wayfarer with media playback capabilities.

I'm also hoping for a new major (non-bugfix) release of MorphOS itself.

I would also repeat my wishes from last year about my hopes for support of a *modern* GFX card, as well as more info on any work (or even better: reports of actual progress) towards migration of MorphOS to AMD64.

A revised and more useable version of Folio from André Siegel would be great to have.

Also, SCANdal fixed so it doesn't "block" the USB mechanism when a scanner is unplugged, and fixed so that you can use an Epson 1640SU scanner with it, as currently with Apple hardware since v3.7, though it might be v3.11 as the last useable release, of the SCANdal thread - specifically comments by several users including Amigaharry2 when using it with MorphOS, as it seems there is a communication error bug, or some other bug, that has crept in that stops it working/functioning, so currently you have to load/boot up from an earlier MorphOSBoot CD to be able to use SCANdal v1.6 as a working application with MorphOS, all of which has needed fixing for longer than we should have had to wait for, realistically IMHO.

Better, improved functionality and hardware support for USB isochronous audio in the MorphOS implementation.

An update to, or replacement for, the astronomy application Stellarium, as that's not seen any update for years now it seems.

An office suite/set of applications to allow other ubiquitous OS file formats to be directly read, edited and saved.

Not forgetting a revitalised/fixed version of PageStream 5 for Amiga/MorphOS with all the bugs "exterminated" and firing on all 5 cylinders/versions.

[UPDATE] - Christoph(e) Poelzl aka rms has just updated the "Looking for an MUI programmer", message from Deron K. (PageStream 5 for MorphOS)" thread on MorphZone with links to images you can view of screengrabs of PageStream version 5 for MorphOS that is actively being developed by Deron Kazmaier, and currently being beta tested by rms, which is the best news outside of direct MorphOS development that I know of for this year.

My pie-in-the-sky would be a single-GPU solution to be able to run, maximally, MorphOS and AOS4.1FE on my X5000 without sacrificing any performance or anything on either side.

Morphos released as open source.
And let everybody use it on any hardware they wanted.

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The only way for many tower cased Apple hardware systems that are MorphOS capable to implement PCI-e GFX capabilities similar to the X5000 would be to implement the capability of a PCI to PCIe, adapter, the one shown is made by Startech but if there are any other similar products then of course those too, for GFX card or for other PCIe card use, and use a low-profile more modern PCI-e GFX card with it, though bandwidth might be a problem for a standard PCI slot, even if it's a 66MHz slot.

Without MorphOS capable hardware being able to utilise the GFX cards that Amiga OS4.1FE can use then I don't see the MorphOS Dev. Team spending much time on this topic for hardware that was originally only intended for Amiga OS4.x use.

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I think that's really a good id. . . . . . oh! wait, . . . . I think I saw a pig flying over my home just then!

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Sounds like a solution in search for a problem.....


More PCIe-cards will be supported if/when:
- Frank is bored
- MorphOS-AMD takes off

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Which was the point I was trying to make, but is possible to implement in older systems that only have PCI slots, not that I'm expecting this to be adopted, but ACube have just implemented this for Sam440ep-Flex OS4.1FE systems to allow for later PCI-e cards as PCI GFX cards are now becoming so hard to source as new or working replacements, which may become the situation for systems we use, such as the BlizzardPPC/Mediator PCI slots that use a Radeon based PCI card. I know my PowerMac G5 has a 66MHz PCI slot that I can use for Radeon PCI GFX cards and I did try a 9200 based card in that when I first got it working, but it now has an Apple 9600 PCI-X GFX card in it which works faster and has more GFX RAM than the 9200 based card I initially tried.

Official support of PCIE G5s.

Better wireless support.

3D and overlay support for later video cards l.

I think in "easy" stuff like:

-sdk (I know it is in the works).

-New version of FlowStudio with better debugger usage.

-MorphOS version with improved gfx cards support.

-Wayfarer with integrated media support.

But I will be happy with any update or new program for this great OS.

DRM-support for Spotify webplayer in Wayfarer.

MorphOS-ARM

My wishes for next year:
- sdk and script to set it up on linux for cross compilation
- gl shader support
- amd64 (ok, this won't happen)

I am with the G5 supporters, possibly multicore. More important would be support for more PCIe gfx cards tho.

- a real useable office-package like Open Office (ok, that's more a dream.....)
- modern Email-client and Browser seems to come true 2021 with Iris and Wayfarer
- a workaround for Poseidon to be stable and do not crash stick when copying many small files
- a workaround for ICE-FS to be more stable

Something selfish:
- Support of RS232 and 2nd-IDE-Channel on EFIKA
- developement to 64Bit-MOS useing both CPUs on G5
- a roadmap to switch to more modern and cheaper new hardware in the next few years

MorphOS port to a machine I can buy affordable and new, so ARM or x64 will do.

Just few things for me..

Official support for PowerMAC Quad G5 pci-e 11.2 late 2005
Full OS4 API compatibility
SMP implementation for powerpc cpus
Better OpenGL and SDL (official) compatibility
Better GFX card support at least until Radeon GCN3
Raptor Blackbird Power9 and AMD x64 boards support

@ Flash, good list.

And guys, I believe there are about three developers working on graphics.

MorphOS backported to 68k so it'll run on UAE. :)

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Currently or in the past?

Oh, forgot one that I’d really love to see:

- Rolling upgrades/updates

Class compliant USB driver for audio interfaces. ( This is more of wish than anything else, but most newer USB interfaces are Class complaint ), so one driver should work for all. )

[ Edited by MoerBoer 28.12.2020 - 20:35 ]

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Sure, that's no problem. Insert 20000 USD here and we can get it done.

You need to have an entity (ie company) which can enter a legal agreement with Google to implement and certify Widevine DRM.

I've previously worked on Playready DRM, Widevine DRM and Irdeto integrations with Windows / iOS / Android / Web clients and a server backend. It would be no problem to add Widevine support to MorphOS from a purely programming point of view.

It all comes down to money & politics.

[ Edited by jacadcaps 28.12.2020 - 22:48 ]

Being a newer user there isn't much else i'd like to see for my basic needs except for a few small things.

1) A current build of ffmpeg/ffplay/ffprobe with zlib enabled for twitch.tv stream ability.
2) The updated SDK so i can start porting stuff.
3) An updated bitlbee so i can use discord via an irc client without the need for an external public server.

As i mentioned in another thread, i'm willing to paypal $50 USD to anyone who can whip up a new ffmpeg/ffplay with zlib support.

Cheers

>> My pie-in-the-sky would be a single-GPU solution to be able
>> to run, maximally, MorphOS and AOS4.1FE on my X5000
>> without sacrificing any performance or anything on either side.

> Without MorphOS capable hardware being able to utilise the
> GFX cards that Amiga OS4.1FE can use then I don't see the
> MorphOS Dev. Team spending much time on this topic for
> hardware that was originally only intended for Amiga OS4.x use.

The A-Eon CyrusPlus/X5000 and the ACube Sam460 are MorphOS-capable hardware and are, of course, able to utilise the graphics cards that OS4 can use. I don't see how the fact that both were originally intended for OS4 use has any bearing on this. If supported by MorphOS, GCN1 or GCN4 cards as supported by OS4 (via A-Eon's drivers) would probably even be usable in PCIe-based G5 PowerMacs.