Hi everyone,

Well, as stated in the title, I'm writing this post with a double purpose: a quick presentation of myself, and to ask some questions.

I'm Argentinean, living in France, 29, and used to be a huge Amiga fan. I lost contact with the Amiga world when, around 1995, it became impossible (at least in Argentina) to get a hand on Amiga hardware (and I was tired of working on floppies, wanted a HD, and couldn't find any A1200 or A2000 to "upgrade" my computer).

A couple of weeks ago, I've stumbled onto the OS4 homepage, which piked my curiosity and started looking around... Then I've learned a bit about the new "Amiga-likes" (Pegasos and A1).

Now I'm looking into buying a PPC with either MorphOS or OS4 (MorphOS looks better). However, I can't get one thing straight :

What is the current status of the MorphOS? I mean, is there any commercial entity still developping it (I've read on a webpage that all development has stopped)?

Another question I must ask is if someone could tell me the biggest "drawbacks" of MorphOS at it's current status (I've been reading about TCP support, for exemple).

Thanks a lot!

Hey there,

First of all: welcome to our community

MorphOS is still being developed. Recently we had

* An update to 1.4.5
* The release of MorphOS 1.4.5 for classic amigas with ppc accelerators
* The release of updated 3d drivers (being followed by a port of Quake III shortly after that)

To quote Piru, A MorphOS core developer: "MorphOS is far from dead"

The lack of TCP/IP stack can be seen as a (major) drawback, but on the other hand: MorphOS 1.5 already has one integrated, someone is developing a TCP/IP stack as part of the MorphZone bounty program (and released version 0.10 beta today) and you can always use your "old" TCP/IP stacks from the amiga (Genesis, MiamiDX, etc.)

Apart from that, MorphOS lacks everything else that the amiga platform lacks; Open Office (though we have an office package in the form of Papyrus), Firefox (or any descent/modern browser, though a port of KHTML is in progress) etc. Keep in mind though that the Pegasos II is A) bugfree, still being actively developed (as platform) and available atm (while A1's aren't) and B) runs and is supported by a whole bunch of Linux distro's (it comes with various flavours pre-installed in the ODW form). You could always run Linux if you need a specific piece of sofware not found on MorphOS.

Hope this answers your question to some extend; feel free to post any other question concerning MorphOS/Pegasos!

[ Edited by Stevo on 2005/10/17 18:56 ]

hi and welcome !

there's a strong french Pegasos Community at www.amigaimpact.org, if you can read french you may find this site very useful !
there's also a french amiga address book so you can maybe find someone not too far away from your place that could show you a pegasos in real !
http://www.annuaire-amiga.org/

[ Edited by SoundSquare on 2005/10/17 21:11 ]

Thanks for the information! Your answers/links have helped me a lot as to which way to go. I'll be ordering my Pegasos!

@Soundsquare
Merci bcp pour l'info! C'est très important de savoir qu'il y a des autres gens pas trop loin avec qui on peut discuter!

aucun problème ! bienvenue à toi, on t'attend sur Amiga impact !