Hi guys.

I'm posting this as a new thread so it will be more visible I think.

I have some good news regarding bounty. Thanks to David 'AmigaDave' Morris we will have two models suported. David kindly offered to buy and send PowerMac G5 2.7Ghz - M9749LL/A and he also will spare his own 2.0Ghz model (which was already mentioned in bounty).

As at the first place I was responsible to obtain a G5 for BigFoot my part of 500 euros was paid into the bounty already.

What is more our MorphOS Santa Claus Fraggle said that when bounty reaches 50% he is gonna put in another 50% so we will have bounty completed!

When typing that words we have about 920 euros in bounty already so basically what we need is just 580 euros only! Come one guys, let's make that happen :)

Now that's what I call power users!

BTW, who is with me when I say MorphZone should temporarily be renamed Fraggle's Morphzone. This guy is shelling out some serious scratch to support MorphOS!

I kinda like how it is, I am old fashioned that way

Congrats! And thanks to AmigaDave for all the donations and also Fraggle.... Hell everyone who is a MOS user knows whats up. MOS gets work done!

192 euros to go :)

Just pitched in $50. :)

Cheers, 140 euros left :)

Exciting times!

1500,89 EUR

Fraggle - finish him!! ;)

Annoying, I don't even get paid until Tuesday and you guys dig up 3000 euros in a few days?
Guess I'll have use the money for licensing.

BTW - Here's a question. What rate do G5 licensees get charged?
The fee Powerbook users are paying or the lower fee?

[ Edited by Jim 03.11.2012 - 19:24 ]

/me votes for : "a powermac is a powermac is a powermac"

Happy Happy Happy !!!

I don't think there is anyone who is happier about this turn of events that has resulted in, or will result in the porting of MorphOS3.1 (or 3.2 if they use a new version number) to the G5 PowerMac.

What makes me even happier, is to see that there are so many other people who apparently feel the same way as I do about MorphOS3.1 running on G5 hardware. It appears that there is much more support for PPC and the G5 than some other people might have thought. I am not part of such a minority in the MorphOS community as I had thought a week ago.

That does not mean that there are not a lot of MorphOS users who want work to begin to port MorphOS to the ARM, or x86/x64 architectures, it just means that there is still lots of support for porting MorphOS3.1 to what is arguably the fastest PPC personal computer that was mass produced and sold in millions of units.

I think it shows that there are many MorphOS users who are interested in seeing just what is possible with MorphOS3.x on a seriously powerful PPC computer, while we wait however long it takes to get a port of MorphOS to more modern hardware, like x86/x64, or ARM (though I do not know if there are any ARM products that can compete with the 2.7GHz G5 with Altivec).

Edit: If Trevor Dickinson and Matthew Leaman are successful in bringing additional modern PPC desktop computers to the Amiga community in the future, we might eventually see more PPC computers supported by MorphOS3.x. I know that this is a hope of Trevor, that he has stated in the past, and that he provided more hints about what he is currently working on at this year's AmiWest Show, so who knows what the future will bring.

[ Edited by amigadave 03.11.2012 - 13:46 ]

Given a little contribution before it is too late..

Made a little donation too... I've been waiting this thing to happen for a loooong time. Now I can finally wipe off the dust from my G5 PowerMac and start thinking about selling my old Pegasos 2.

Nice.

I just hope this won't slow down PowerBook 3D support development too much, since it's also (mostly) done by bigfoot afaik

Well, the system(s) have to travel from California to South Africa, so that could take awhile.
Knowing David, I'm sure that he will try to get the hardware there ASAP.
But, I wouldn't want to speak for him.

I've already upset him by announcing his involvement in this in the first place (instead of keeping the information quiet).
That is a little out of character for me, but at the time I didn't think it was important to keep it a secret.

>> I just hope this won't slow down PowerBook 3D support development
>> too much, since it's also (mostly) done by bigfoot afaik

> Well, the system(s) have to travel from California to South Africa, so that could take awhile.

Bigfoot estimated R300 3D driver development to take about half a year. I doubt shipping the PowerMac G5 will take nearly as long.

Andreas_Wolf,
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Twice as long as G5 support? Something doesn't sound right there.
And, no, I wouldn't expect shipping to take longer then a month. That the longest something I've shipped has taken to reach its destination (and that was in Australia).

> Twice as long as G5 support?

At least that's what I read from that posting from almost two months ago:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=708262

> I wouldn't expect shipping to take longer then a month.

As R300 3D driver surely won't be done in a month, and the G5 port must be done within 3 months from the machine reaching its destination, I think it's not hard to guess what that should mean about a potential slowdown of R300 3D driver development.

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Luckily it's only your guess.

> it's only your guess.

True. As well as it's also just my guess that Bigfoot didn't find a way to clone himself yet :-)

As the G5 Powermac mentioned (like the old one I sold a while back, natch) come with a Radeon 9600 ie a R300, it seems likey that drivers for one is the same as the other.

I personally, have little doubt my 4 x 2.5 with PCI-Express ATI Radeon X1900 XT, won't work. Oh well..

I suppose R300 3D drivers should almost ready at this point, we are speaking about them and waiting them since ages by now! I want neither imagine the possibility that is not so..